I’ve just run into a problem using Hook with Bookends. For most of the items, when I invoke Hook to copy the link, I see exactly what I expect – the Bookends icon and the title (in the format I have specified in the Hook custom scripts, as set out in a recent post on the Bookend forums):
However, in some cases, when I invoke Hook, it’s giving me a link to the PDF attachment of the item in Bookends, not the the item itself. This is not at all what I want. I can’t see any reason why this happens to some, but not most, items.
In addition, there are a small number of cases where Hook is giving me nothing at all:
For one of the items which resulted in a PDF link, I detached the PDF attachment in Bookends, invoked Hook and got the normal result of a Bookends link. Then I attached the PDF again, and Hook reverted to giving me a link to the PDF not the Bookends item.
They are not the same. These are the result from my second example above:
Result from Hook: hook://file/tGmgs2hnv?p=aUNsb3VkfmNvbX5zb25ueXNvZnR3YXJlfmJvdC9Eb2N1bWVudHM=&n=Waltner%201984.pdf.pdf
Result from Bookends: bookends://sonnysoftware.com/78983
Obviously, the two URL schemes are different, but it’s still clear that the Hook result points to the PDF while the Bookends result points to the ID of the work (Waltner).
In the case of those Bookends items that produce no result in Hook, Bookends is still able to provide the link. Using my third example from above:
Pasting these results here has made me realise that I expected Hook to return results using the Bookends URL scheme, since the Get Address script is:
tell application id "com.sonnysoftware.bookends"
set selectedItems to selected publication items of front library window
if selectedItems is not {} then
set selectedUrl to url of item 1 of selectedItems
if selectedUrl is not equal to "" then
get properties of item 1 of selectedItems
return "bookends://sonnysoftware.com/" & id of item 1 of selectedItems
else
set a to attachments of item 1 of selectedItems
if a is equal to "" then
return "bookends://sonnysoftware.com/" & id of item 1 of selectedItems
end if
return "file://" & default attachments path & a
end if
end if
end tell
Is this where my problem lies?
For completeness, here’s the script I have for Get Name:
tell application id “com.sonnysoftware.bookends”
tell front library window
set selectedPubs to selected publication items -- requires Bookends ≥ 13.2.1
if selectedPubs is not {} then
set aPub to first item of selectedPubs
-- NOTE: leave out the "using ..." part to instead format according to your
-- current Bookends setting (see the “Biblio > Default Format” menu)
set formattedReference to format aPub using "Harvard (Anglia).fmt"
return formattedReference
end if
end tell
end tell
It looks like you’ve overridden Hook’s built in script for Hook. This may be because you applied a script from the forum before CogSci Apps provided a script for bookends in Hook itself (and the script server). If a user has created or modified a script for an app, Hook won’t override it.
The built in script returns a bookends URL:
tell application id "com.sonnysoftware.bookends"
set selected_ids to «event ToySRUID» "Selection"
set selected_ids to words of selected_ids --coerces to list
set n to count of selected_ids
if n ≥ 1 then
set sid to item 1 of selected_ids
set myUrl to "bookends://sonnysoftware.com/" & sid
end if
end tell
Hook supports Bookends. By default, Copy Link and Copy Markdown Link in Bookends return links of the form bookends://.
If you would rather traffic in hook://file/ links, then Hook Pro users may the alternative Hook-Bookends integration script below.
If you would like to get Hook’s built-in script you can click the “-” button at the bottom left of Hook > Preferences > Script Editor tab for that script.
Yes, that’s the issue. Getting rid of the custom script has made it work properly again. I think I probably put this script in early last year when I started using Hook.
