Comments on: Quick n' Dirty OmniOutliner to MediaWiki Applescript

By: brook

brook — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:32:05 +0000

thanks, this script is helpful

By: Michael Marotta

Michael Marotta — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:18:00 +0000

Hey Mike, thanks for the tip. What text editor are you using? I did what you said in TextEdit but when I copied the resulting text, each tab created a new column in OmniOutliner. I did get it working using Word, though. I just had to replace with “^t” which is the tab character for Word.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:59:09 +0000

Michael, what I do is replace ‘#’ with tab in an editor – control-Q will insert a literal tab in the ‘replace’ text field, and you’ll get what you want. Then import that text into OO…

By: Michael Marotta

Michael Marotta — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:53:48 +0000

Hey Michael, this script was a godsend and works perfectly. Do you know if there’s a way to perform this the other way around? Copying the MediaWiki text into OmniOutliner and then do a find/replace turning the “#” characters into indents? Thanks so much! Mike

By: Will

Will — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:42:25 +0000

Michael — and Peter — thanks! This worked like a champ to pull dozens of user stories I did in OOP to Twiki. huge.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:18:46 +0000

Modified to do twiki!

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