OmniFocus Selected Mail Messages.applescript

OmniFocus Selected Mail Messages.applescript

(*
OmniFocus Selected Mail Messages.applescript
	Copyright (c) 2015 Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch: http://rentzsch.com
	Some rights reserved: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit
  
Pure AppleScript reimplementation of OmniGroup's Clip-o-Tron for OmniFocus.

Hopefully this implementation will be more resilient against OS X, Mail, and OmniFocus updates.
Successfully tested against OS X 10.10.1, OmniFocus 1.10.6, and OmniFocus 2.0.4.

References:
<http://daringfireball.net/2007/12/message_urls_leopard_mail>
<http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=30754>
<http://shawnblanc.net/box/smarter_clip-o-tron.txt>
 *)

tell application "Mail"
	set _sel to the selection
	repeat with _msg in _sel
		set _msgSubject to _msg's subject
		set _msgBody to _msg's content
		set _msgSender to _msg's sender
		set _msgURL to "message://<" & _msg's message id & ">"
		tell application "OmniFocus"
			tell quick entry
				set _task to make new inbox task with properties {name:_msgSubject, note:_msgBody}
				tell note of _task
					insert "From: " & _msgSender & "  Original Message" & (ASCII character 10) & (ASCII character 10) at before paragraphs
					set value of attribute "link" of style of characters -1 thru -17 of first paragraph to _msgURL
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

tell application "OmniFocus"
	tell quick entry to open
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab

works like a charm! thanks for sharing 👍

Can a keyboard shortcut be setup to use in Apple Mail to send email messages to OmniFocus Selected Mail Messages like OmniFocus's Clip-o-Tron?

Nicely done; thank you!

Blog posting back-link: http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/107291097510/omnifocus-selected-mail-messages-applescript

Version 2.8.1 (v113.2.5 r276599) or OmniFocus seems to break the script, when combined with Sierra Mail (Version 10.2 (3259)).

The error is:

Error Number: 1

OmniFocus got an error: Unable to convert the string “message://20170105003900.5935186.97353.110577@apr.com” to a url. Make sure that the string is a valid URL, including quoting characters that aren't valid in URLs.

Anyone have any luck resolving that? Thanks!!

firles you need to encode the "<" and ">" first now it seems. Replace line 23 with this

set _msgURL to "message://%3C" & _msg's message id & "%3e"

Replacement line helped. Thank you very much!!

Can you please add moving the mail that has been acted on to a different folder?

Something seems to be different in OF3 that is breaking this. Specifically, the quick entry window appears with all the tasks entered; however, after hitting save the actions do not appear in the inbox, or anywhere else. I haven't investigated in detail...