Has anyone used the AppleScript html export lately?

[Bob White]

Last post I saw on AppleScript report is now over two years old.

Seems to me the newer AppleScript interpreter does not parse "export to html" as a single command because I get:

execution error: Can’t get HTML of "./ci_artifacts/coverage/". (-1728)

when I attempt to export via

osascript bin/coverage_report.applescript ./ci_artifacts/coverage

I get: 

tell application ((<my bin path> as string) & "CoverStory.app")

activate

set x to open <my project>
tell x to export to HTML in (item 1 of argv) 

 end

CoverStory comes up and loads all the files properly so I know it's not a path issue. 

 

If I wrap "export to HTML" in parens the error is:

execution error: The variable HTML is not defined. (-2753)

Anyone have any thoughts?

Bob 

[Darren Ehlers]

I finally solved this one.  The CoverStory.app must be in the ~/Applications/ directory.

There may be a way around this by dealing with permissions, but I haven't been able to get it to work otherwise.

[Mike Maietta]

I was able to get around the Applications directory issue by directly hardcoding a full path to the local CoverStory.app within my repo.  I'm still trying to find a way to have the path be dynamic, but it seems Export to HTML only is understood by applescript when it's set to: tell application "PATH TO APP/CoverStory.app".  If one were to replace it with a variable, the Export command is no longer recognized.