BrainDead on Groups

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Tom,
I guess you could check the owner of the group within your repeat loop and
ignore any whose owner is not "Main Group".


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:

> I always seem to get messed up when working with groups.
>
> I have a group with groups in it and subgroups in those groups like this:
>
> MainGroup
> Index1
>         SubGroup1
>         SubGroup2
> Index2
>         SubGroup1
>         SubGroup2
> Index3
>         SubGroup1
>         SubGroup2
> Index4
>         SubGroup1
>         SubGroup2
> Index5
>         SubGroup1
>         SubGroup2
>
> I am trying to get the number of groups in group "MainGroup" but I am
> getting all sub groups as well.
>
>  put the number of groups of group "MainGroup" into tGroups
>
> gives me 15 groups instead of 5 like I would like.
>
>
> What I would like to do is delete group "Index3" and then rename the the
> rest so that they are in order again.
> I was planning on using a repeat loop on the number of groups:
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of groups of group "MainGroup"
>         set the name of group x of group "MainGroup" to ("Index" & x)
> end repeat
>
> Then when I want to add a group I can just clone the first group and
> rename it. I would like to name it 1 + the number of groups like:
>
> clone group "Index1" of group "MainGroup"
> set the name of it to ("Index" & (the number of groups of group
> "MainGroup" + 1))
>
>
> The problem is that because some of the groups have groups in them I am
> not getting the right number back from using "the number of".
>
> Help?!
>
> Tom
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>
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