AppleScript

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Using AppleScript you can modify various properties of a single auction template or a group of auction template. AppleScript is a scripting language invented by Apple to automate certain task. It's more complex than using Automator actions, but has offers a greater degree of freedom.

You can use the Script Editor appliction to create and run AppleScripts. The Script Editor application is in the Apple Script folder in your Mac's Applications directory.

Contents 1 Script Menu 2 Template attributes 3 Modifying the selected auction templates 4 Modifying all auction templates

Script Menu

GarageSale comes with many AppleScripts pre-installed that lets you batch edit your auction templates easily. (Please note that since version 6 GarageSale has a batch editing feature built-in. You no longer need AppleScript for most of the tasks.)

Select Open Built-in Scripts Folder from the Script menu if you want to modify them. To install your own scripts, select Open User Scripts Folder and put them into this folder and restart GarageSale. More scripts created by GarageSale users can be found in the File section of the GarageSale user group.

Template attributes

You can get a list of the template attributes editable trough apple script by choosing Open Dictionary… from the File menu in the Script Editor application. Select GargeSale Suite and template to see what attributes can be edited.

Modifying the selected auction templates

Use a repeat loop to change a certain attribute for all the selected templates (or all the templates in the selected template groups). Here is an example script that changes the starting price for all selected templates to 2.00.

tell application "GarageSale"
    repeat with myTemplate in the selected templates
       set the starting bid of myTemplate to "2.00"
    end repeat
end tell

You can replace starting bid in the above example with any template attribute shown in GarageSale's AppleScript dictionary.

Modifying all auction templates

If you would like to change an attribute for all your templates in GarageSale, not just the selected ones, you have to repeat through templates instead of selected templates.

tell application "GarageSale"
    repeat with myTemplate in the templates
       set the starting bid of myTemplate to "2.00"
    end repeat
end tell