add URL to Contact

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#1

How do I add a URL to a Contact card in Contact Application?

Extracted from. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.10/ScriptingAddressBook/index.html

Adding URL’s

The method for adding a URL to a person is generally the same as that for adding an email address. The following example code demonstrates how to add a work URL to a specified person in Address Book.

make new url at end of urls of thePerson with properties
{label:“Work”, value:“http://www.automatedworkflows.com”}

This method doesn’t seem to work in my script?

tell application "Contacts"
	set thePerson to selection as specifier
	tell thePerson
		make new url with properties {label:"Work", value:"http://www.automatedworkflows.com"}
	end tell
end tell

The script complete, but no URL is shown updated in the Contact card.

#2

Hi,

to display the update immediately you have to save the address book explicitly.
This is a more reliable version to handle the selection


tell application "Contacts"
	set sel to selection
	if sel is not {} then
		set thePerson to item 1 of sel
		tell thePerson
			make new url with properties {label:"Work", value:"http://www.automatedworkflows.com"}
		end tell
	end if
	save
end tell