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This routine will add/remove the Group Membership details for the Contact Notes. It will also remove duplicated Note entries
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# Title: Add-Remove Group Name(s) or delete duplicates from Contacts Notes
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#Iain Dunn
#https://www.logic2design.com
#https://twitter.com/Logic2Design
#logic2design@icloud.com
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# Code
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tell application "Contacts"
set o to display dialog "Do you want to add Group(s), remove Group(s) or remove duplicate records from Contacts Notes?" buttons {"Add", "Remove", "Duplicates"} default button "Add"
if the button returned of o is "Add" then
set c to display dialog "Do you want to change all Contacts or just the selected Contact?" buttons {"All", "Selected"} default button "Selected"
if the button returned of c is "Selected" then
set thePeople to selection
else
set thePeople to people
end if
repeat with aPerson in thePeople
set oldNotes to note of aPerson
set theGroups to {}
repeat with aGroup in (groups whose people contains aPerson)
set theGroups to theGroups & (name of aGroup)
end repeat
if theGroups is not {} then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
if oldNotes is not missing value then
set note of aPerson to oldNotes & return & "Groups: " & (theGroups as string)
else
set note of aPerson to "Groups: " & (text items of theGroups as string)
end if
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
end if
end repeat
save
else if the button returned of o is "Remove" then
set c to display dialog "Do you want to change all Contacts or just the selected Contact?" buttons {"All", "Selected"} default button "Selected"
if the button returned of c is "Selected" then
set thePeople to selection
else
set thePeople to people
end if
repeat with i in thePeople
set fileText to note of i
set thisNote to note of i
if thisNote is not missing value then set note of i to my deleteLinesFromText(thisNote)
end repeat
save
else
set c to display dialog "Do you want to change all Contacts or just the selected Contact?" buttons {"All", "Selected"} default button "Selected"
if the button returned of c is "Selected" then
set thePeople to selection
else
set thePeople to people
end if
repeat with i in thePeople
set thisNote to note of i
if thisNote is not missing value then set note of i to my removeDuplicateLines(thisNote)
end repeat
save
end if
end tell
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# Functions
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on deleteLinesFromText(theText)
-- here's how you can delete all lines of text from fileText that contain the deletePhrase.
-- first turn the text into a list so you can repeat over each line of text
set textList to paragraphs of theText
set deletePhrase to "Group"
-- now repeat over the list and replace lines that have the deletePhrase with 'missing values'.
repeat with i from 1 to (count textList)
if (item i of textList contains deletePhrase) then set item i of textList to missing value
end repeat
-- Coerce the paragraphs which are left to a single text using return delimiters.
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set newText to textList's text as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
return newText
end deleteLinesFromText
on removeDuplicateLines(t)
set l to paragraphs of t
set tc to count l
if tc = 1 then return t
set newList to {}
repeat with j from 1 to tc
if (item j of l) is not in newList then set end of newList to item j of l
end repeat
set {oTid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, return}
set newList to newList as string
set text item delimiters to oTid
return newList
end removeDuplicateLines
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