referencing a selected group in Address Book

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#1

How do I get the name of the group that a user is highlighting in the Address Book? Here is a code snippet that does not work.

tell application "Address Book"
	set the_Group to name of group selection as text
	display dialog the_Group
end tell
#2

Try:

tell application "Address Book" to get name of first group whose selected is true
#3

I get the following error “Address Book got an error: Can’t make name of group 1 whose selection = “true” into type reference.”

I used the following applescript:

tell application "Address Book"
	set theName to get name of first group whose selection is true as text
	display dialog theName
end tell
#4

You should have used the script adayzdone gave you. :wink:

#5

Yes, I used that also. They both gave the same error. I should have been more specific. My bad.

#6

selection vs. selected and without that useless as text coercion

#7

The error, as Stefan’s pointed out, is that you’ve got ‘selection’ instead of ‘selected’. However, I see that the ‘selected’ property was introduced with Address Book 5 in Snow Leopard. It doesn’t exist in Address Book 4.1.2 on my Leopard system. Are you by any chance using an older version?