[Tb] Moving Files Using an Agent?

On May 13, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Ken Tompkins wrote:

> Is there a way to move notes using an agent? I was thinking of moving
> current notes
> to an archive after a period of time but can't figure out how to do it
> with an agent.
> Wondered if the experts here had suggestions.

Welcome Ken,

Nice to see a familiar name appear in these parts. ;-)

Agents can grab aliases of notes. So if you wanted to, you could have
aliases which grab the notes that were created in the last week, and
publish them as a single page (for instance, by publishing the agent
and it's children) and also have another agent which grabs the notes
that are older than a week.

Using this method, you wouldn't be directly publishing the outline
which holds the actual notes. A little bit of misdirection, but
ultimately much more powerful. You can create archive agents that will
generate weekly or bi-weekly archives, monthly archives, and category
archives (based on note attributes that indicate the category).

> Also, how can I look at the construction of an agent in someone else's
> template?
> In the Grey Flannel template, the author says that the Main Page is an
> agent. I haven't
> yet found a way to look at that agent to see how it does what he says
> it does.

Select the agent in the outline, then use Note>Get Info... to see teh
details about that note. In that view you can examine the actual Agent
query which is doing the magic.

Greg
Received on Fri May 14 13:19:05 2004