The other day, I had a big outline on a wiki that I wanted to edit in OmniOutliner so I could hide and move things around with a real outliner, then export it back out to the wiki.
I managed to get it into OO with copy and paste and a lot of RSI-inducing tabbing, but the text export options can’t be massaged to export MediaWiki-style (eg, ‘#’ for level one, ‘##’ for level two).
So I wrote a quick Applescript to get the data out and get me back on my way. I thought I’d post it in case it would be useful to anyone else:
tell front document of application "OmniOutliner Professional"
set expText to ""
repeat with aRow in rows
set rowText to ""
-- start from 2 to treat top levels as headers
repeat with i from 2 to level of aRow
set rowText to rowText & "#"
end repeat
set rowText to rowText & " " & topic of aRow
set expText to expText & return & rowText
end repeat
set the clipboard to expText
display dialog "The exported text is in the clipboard."
end tell
Update: see the comments for a version for TWiki. Thanks, Peter!
