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This page has some examples of the install button: which will hopefully soon be implemented site-wide -)

The install script should sense your system and prompt accordingly. To make it easier to use scripts and plugins, I’m implementing a new Install Plug-In button in some script examples that when activated guide the user in installing a plugin version of the script for either iOS and macOS. Although the web consoles and clickable examples and templates on the website help make it easier to create and use Omni Automation scripts, it’s not the same as a robust editor application. At this time there is no stand-alone editor like Coda that supports the writing and debugging of Omni Automation scripts and plugins. Omni Automation scripts are harder to debug and run outside of the console. And while the opening page of details the difference between Omni’s AppleScript/JXA implementation and Omni Automation, this distinction needs to be more visible and supported in other documentation. You are absolutely correct in stating that there is confusion about the various scripting implementations in Omni software. Hence, my use of the phrase “Omni Automation script” when describing an automation script.

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The official name for the dual-platform (macOS/iOS) JavaScript implementation in Omni software is “Omni Automation.” There is no OmmiJS, which was a project name that unfortunately has gained some traction.Let me see if i can address your comments: I am so glad you are here and that you are you! Excellent feedback, thank you. (I have noticed for example, that many assume that even JXA code, let alone OmniJS code, is executed in a browser context, and will have access to the DOM etc) a consistent name which identifies which language they are in, and which of the two possible JavaScript contexts they can run in.

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A clear link to the basics of how to install and run them, and.

Very helpful to see you posting these occasional snippets, but I do think that they need to come with:

Splitting even the nomenclature of the latest bifurcation into omniJS vs “Omni Automation” (which sounds as if it could mean AppleScript, JavaScript for Automation, or omniJS, seems a bit unlikely to help with points one and two.

The further splitting of JavaScript scripting for for Omni apps into two APIs and two evaluation contexts is even less widely known or understood.

The splitting of Omni (indeed Apple platform(s)) scripting into two idioms (AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation) is still not widely or fully digested.

Assigning them, once made, to convenient buttons or keystrokes It’s still fiddlier and more obscured, and much less well understood than in the case of the older and slower AppleScript.

For the same reason (no return values), they are not yet at all well-adapted to the main use case of OmniOutliner scripting, which is data format conversion.

It’s much harder to test and debug them, because outside the special console, they still provide no mechanism for returning a value to the caller.

At this early stage it’s still fiddlier and less convenient to run omniJS scripts than AS/JXA scripts.

The real problem though, in these early days of the excellent omniJS initiative (scripting OmniGroup apps with new and much faster APIs which run in JavaScript Contexts embedded in the OmniGroup apps themselves, rather than in JXA) is that:

The naming suggests a formal link with OmniGroup, but Omni support staff seem to play down any such link if users come to them for clarification about material or technical issues encountered on your site) (The status of your site could, I think be another source of confusion. I do appreciate that there might be some hope that use of a term like ‘an Omni Automation script’ would lead users to a search engine, and thence to your own site of that name, but the real traffic would probably be increased by at least a link … have really no idea at all about the best way (or perhaps any way) of conveniently running what you refer to above as an “Omni Automation” script, and which I can see, by inspection, refers to an omniJS script.are even less clear about and the notion that might actually be two different JS APIs for one Omni applicationĪnd I suspect that most users (including to some extent myself :-).still seem a little unfamiliar with the notion of Omni-app scripts in any kind of JavaScript,.Hi Sal, I wonder if it might not help to prepare a basic link or footnote to regularly accompany omniJS snippets, whether for OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, or in due course other apps ? mReturn :: First-class m => (a -> b) -> m (a -> b) Lift 2nd class handler function into 1st class script wrapper Set end of lst to |λ|(item i of xs, i, xs) Set note of oRow to (note of oRow & strText) Using terms from application "OmniOutliner" There are various approaches – one might look a bit like this: - withAdditionalNoteText :: String -> OO Row -> OO Row