Batch Searching in Accordance Bible Software

I posted a video showing one aspect of my dissertation work and the wide-range lexical/grammatical stylometric searches I have done across multiple Greek corpora. This explains how I was able to compile the results of over 15,000 searches and still live to tell about it.

Toggle Flex/Exact Search in Accordance

Accordance power user Rubén Gomez had the great idea of making a script to enable Flex Search in Accordance. Flex Search is a new powerful search feature in Accordance to provide new options for searching.
I'm posting here my version of a script that toggles between Flex Search and Exact Search in the Preferences. It is scripting the user interface of the Preferences pane in Accordance 10, so you can actually see the script doing it's work. As much as anything, this script may give some of you some help getting started at scripting the preferences yourself:

-- This script will toggle Flex/Exact search in Accordance preferences

tell application "Accordance" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell process "acord"

click menu item "Preferences…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Accordance" of menu bar 1

delay 0.2

-- select "Search Tabs" panel

set selected of row 12 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of window "Preferences" to true

delay 0.2

-- toggle a checkbox to enable the "OK" button

-- necessary because clicking radio button does not enable "OK" button

click checkbox 1 of window "Preferences"

click checkbox 1 of window "Preferences"

set v to value of radio button "Flex Search" of radio group 1 of window "Preferences"

if v = 0 then

-- click to appropriate radio button

click radio button "Flex Search" of radio group 1 of window "Preferences"

else

click radio button "Exact Search" of radio group 1 of window "Preferences"

end if

delay 0.2 -- make this delay 1 or 2 seconds if you want longer to see what was switched.

-- dismiss Preferences

click button "OK" of window "Preferences"

end tell

end tell

Accordance Services Demo Tutorial

Here is a video giving a demonstration of the Accordance Services collection available as part of the Accordance Automation Script Library for Accordance version 10.  The Services offer a large spectrum of possibilities, so seeing the video will help you get your head around just what is possible.

Be sure you've also seen the Installation Tutorial. More about Accordance Automation is here.

Accordance Services Installation Video

Here is a short video demonstrating the installation of the Accordance Script Library and the Accordance Services.

Using Accordance Automation

I hope to post some video tutorials soon for the newly added Accordance Automation Script Library on using the:

• Services
• Quicksilver Actions
• Word Plugin

Let me know if installation has had any problems. One issue, is that the need for some to allow Access for Assistive Devices got left out of the new documentation.

Go to System Preferences, the Accessibility panel. Make sure you have selected "Enable access for Assistive Devices".

This allows the script library to select menu items and put text in search boxes in Accordance.