Drafts 19 (iOS) Released - Quick Search

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Drafts 19 (iOS) has been released in the App Store, details below.

See Also: macOS Release Notes

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What’s New

  • Quick Search: Global quick search feature to query for drafts, actions, workspaces and common commands in one place.
    • Accessed via search button at bottom of editor, by pulling down past the top of any draft in the editor, or with the shift-command-F keyboard shortcut.
    • /quickSearch?query= URL action to open directly to quick search.
    • app.showQuickSearch(initialQuery) scripting function.
    • Related change: Searches (in quick search and in draft list) now support tag matches in additional to full text searching, in addition to their support for "exact phrase" with quotes and -omission with hyphen
    • Quick Search feature requires iOS 13.1 or greater.
    • Documentation
  • Better mouse/trackpad hover state support for iPadOS 13.4 and up.
  • FileManager script object additions:
    • baseURL and basePath properties return full file:/// URL or POSIX path to the base directory used by the FileManager instance. This can be useful in cases where the full location of files is needed.
    • writeJSON(path, obj) and readJSON(path) convenience functions for saving and restoring JavaScript objects in files.
    • FileManager docs
  • app.showDraftInfo(draft?) function to display details of a draft. Docs
  • Additional Workspace script object properties:
    • loadActionListGroup (ActionGroup)
    • loadActionBarGroup (ActionGroup)
    • loadFolder (“inbox”, “archive”, “trash”, “flagged”)
    • Docs

Other Changes

  • Fix: Display issue in workspaces widget for unsubscribed users.
  • Change: Better visibility of empty states
  • Fix: “After success” filing options on actions could cause the next draft to be selected in other windows than the one triggering the action on iPad.
  • Fix: Bug affected restoring tag filter “all/any” status in workspaces saved in state restoration sessions.
  • Change: Improve identification of HTML tags in Markdown syntax.
  • Misc. other reliability and performance improvements.

For a complete history of updates, visit the changelog

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The AppleScript dictionary entry for draft is showing name for a property that is accessed as title.

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I flagged this a couple of times on the Slack group, but didn’t get a confirmation on if it was an issue.

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Only creating drafts is supported at this time. Fetching properties/drafts is not yet supported…but some of the objects had to be stubbed. It will get cleaned up when support gets deeper.

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Just going to say… actual physical fist pump when I saw the change log. Thank you!

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Quick search is :fire:. Love it.

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Quick Search is AWESOME.

Perfect on iPhone and Draft’s custom keyboard shortcuts make it a dream on iPad too. I created a simple Action to Quick Search the current selection:

app.showQuickSearch(editor.getSelectedText());

…and assigned that to ⌘/ and now I’m flying through my drafts like it has its very own Spotlight.

Well done! :+1: :+1:

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I am having a bit of strife. The first air of Iines here work, the second two don’t, reporting that app.loadActionListGroup is not a function…

const bargroup = ActionGroup.find(“MarkdownPlus”);
app.loadActionBarGroup(bargroup);
const listgroup = ActionGroup.find(“WrangleDraft”);
app.loadActionListGroup(listgroup);

I did try reading the Docs…

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Try loadActionGroup() rather than loadActionListGroup() - that’s what’s listed in the docs.

https://scripting.getdrafts.com/classes/app#loadactiongroup

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Thank you. Apparent stupidity here cause in part by cobbling, based on the AgileTortoise example above, having started from trying to set these for a workspace, as here(Drafts Script Reference) which I could not get to work, nor the loadactionbargroup…then when one worked for app.xxx and the other did not, my pattern -recognition systems fused. If none of that is helpful, please ignore.

And I cannot reply, because Im new around here. So here is part of my original script:

let ws = Workspace.create();
ws.name = thisview[0].view;
ws.tagFilter = thisview[0].tags;
ws.queryString = thisview[0].query;
ws.setInboxSort(“modified”, true);
const bargroup = ActionGroup.find(thisview[0].actionbar);
ws.loadActionBarGroup(bargroup);
const listgroup = ActionGroup.find(thisview[0]. actionlist);
ws.loadActionListGroup(listgroup);

ws.name, ws.tagFilter,ws.queryString, ws.setInboxSort work here. ws.loadActionBarGroup, ws.loadActionListGroup throw errors, claiming they’re not functions (even if I feed a string directly into the argument). Which is how I ended up here, trying to clone a pattern from the entry above, failing, then switching to app.loadActionBarGroup & app.loadActionListGroup & failing again.

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loadActionListGroup() is a workspace function as Greg noted above, not an app function as you were asking for above.

https://scripting.getdrafts.com/classes/workspace#loadactionlistgroup