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DEVONagent Pro VERSION 3.9.2 DOCUMENTATION © 2001-2015 DEVONtechnologies TABLE OF CONTENTS Read Me 4 Menus 30 The DEVONagent Pro Advantage 5 The DEVONagent Pro menu 30 System Requirements 6 The File menu 31 Installing, Updating, Removing 6 The Edit menu 32 Trial Restrictions 6 The Data menu 32 Version history 6 The Sort menu 33 License Agreement 13 The View menu 34 Credits 13 The Web menu 35 The History menu 35 Getting Started 14 The Go menu 36 Why use DEVONagent Pro? 14 The Window menu 36 When to use DEVONagent Pro? 14 The Services menu 37 First steps with DEVONagent Pro 15 The Scripts menu 37 The Help menu 37 Common Tasks 16 The Dock menu 38 The contextual menu extension 39 How to find on the Internet 16 How to search beyond Google 16 Windows and panels 40 How to customize DEVONagent Pro 17 How to set up a search set to crawl feeds 17 Search window 41 How to run a search automatically 18 Web browser 46 How to archive search results 19 Archive window 52 Search sets 54 Queries 20 Plugins and scanners 54 Downloads 56 Operators 20 Preferences 57 Designing a search query 21 Assistant 57 Search sets 23 Preferences 59 What are search sets? 23 General 59 Choosing a search set 23 Search 60 Creating and managing sets 24 Menu extra 61 Sharing sets 25 Web 62 General tab 25 Tabs 63 Advanced tab 26 Bookmarks 63 Sites tab 27 Email 64 Plugins tab 28 Update 64 Actions tab 28 Schedule tab 29 Widgets & menu extra 66 Menu extra 66 DEVONagent Pro widget 66 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.2 Documentation, page 2 Scripts 67 Introduction 67 DEVONagent Pro's Scripts menu 68 Automator 69 Plugin Development 70 Creating Your Own Plugins 70 XML and JSON Keys 72 Troubleshooting 76 DEVONagent Pro behaves irrationally 76 Problems interacting with DEVONthink 76 FAQ 77 General questions 77 Release schedules, Mac OS X, and Windows 77 Purchasing 78 Mac App Store 79 Your software license 80 Product-related questions 80 Technology 81 General Concept 81 Features 81 Structure 81 Applications 82 Other Products 83 Overview 83 DEVONthink 83 DEVONagent 83 DEVONsphere 84 DEVONnote 84 Needful Things 84 Appendix 85 Glossary 85 FAQ (product-specific) 86 List of Search Sets 87 List of Plugins 87 List of Scanners 92 Log message codes 93 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.2 Documentation, page 3 READ ME In this chapter: Web Searching: Fed up with Web searches that return loads of useless links? Using advanced search The DEVONagent Pro Advantage 5 techniques, DEVONagent Pro takes on all those System Requirements 6 tedious search-and-review tasks, releasing you to Installing, Updating, Removing 6 concentrate on relevant results. Trial Restrictions 6 Version history 6 License Agreement 13 Credits 13 DEVONagent Pro 3.9.2 Documentation, page 4 THE DEVONAGENT PRO ADVANTAGE WHY DEVONAGENT PRO? as images, linked documents, or outgoing links embedded into a viewed page. Using advanced search techniques, DEVONagent DEVONagent Pro archives your search results Pro takes on all those tedious search-and-review with a single click or sends them to your tasks, releasing you to concentrate on relevant DEVONthink database. results. It assists you in Instead of making you repeat actions, finding, DEVONagent Pro performs those actions for collecting, and you. Combine search sets, schedule searches, organizing etc., to create your very own personalized search information from the Web or your DEVONthink Pro assistant. Office databases with a powerful and flexible search architecture. It also features a powerful, research- PERFECT INTEGRATION oriented web browser and simple built-in archive, DEVONagent Pro integrates seamlessly with and tightly integrates with DEVONthink. DEVONthink. With just one click, archive your search results, webpages, and other information WHAT DEVONAGENT PRO DOES FOR YOU grabbed from the Web to your DEVONthink Using both standard and specialized search database. engines, DEVONagent Pro intelligently Select text in any application and use summarizes the results -- fast! DEVONagent Pro's Services menu or a Alternatively, DEVONagent Pro shows you an contextual menu item (Mac OS X 10.5 only) even larger number of search results using its to search for it. The Dashboard widget keeps unique graphical topic map. DEVONagent Pro at your fingertips. DEVONagent Pro support your research while Use various actions, including notifications browsing the Web, e.g., by listing all objects such (available on OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or later) DEVONagent Pro 3.9.2 Documentation, page 5 and AppleScript, to inform you of search results, you can do so at any time. The official version will then send them to either DEVONthink or the accept your Mac App Store receipt as a valid license. application of your choice to process them any Copies not downloaded from the Mac App Store way you wish. also allow you to buy an upgrade to a higher edition or version (if available). Learn more about why you should use DEVONagent Pro, when you should use it, and how to run your To remove DEVONagent Pro traces from your first query: See also p. 14ff computer, trash the following files and folders (~ represents your home folder): SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DEVONagent Pro ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent Pro Every Intel-based Mac with at least 1 GB of RAM ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/DEVONagent running Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. In addition, a Pro CM.plugin broadband Internet connection (2 Mbps or faster) is ~/Library/Preferences/com.devon- highly recommended. technologies.agentexpress.* Depending on whether you have installed the INSTALLING, UPDATING, following extras or not, remove them, too: REMOVING The product-specific scripts in ~/Library/Scripts and ~/Library/Workflows Just move the DEVONagent Pro application The contextual menu plugin in ~/Library/ package to the Applications folder or any other Contextual Menu Items/ directory you have access to. Please note that Mac The Dashboard widget OS X Services and the connection to DEVONthink work only for applications installed into one of the Note: Depending the version of Mac OS X you are Applications folders, and that logout and login or a using, some files may or may not be installed on restart is required after installation. your machine. To update an existing version of DEVONagent Pro, simply copy the application package from the disk TRIAL RESTRICTIONS image to your Applications folder, replacing the old version. Your database(s) will not be affected. Unregistered DEVONagent Pro runs for 60 hours of non-continous runtime. Close the app to stop If you would like to switch from the Mac App the clock from ticking and re-open later to continue Store variant of DEVONagent Pro to one directly your evaluation. The menu extra is restricted to 100 downloaded from the DEVONtechnologies website, searches until DEVONagent Pro is registered. VERSION HISTORY VERSION 3.9.2 This release improves the compatibility to OS X Yosemite and El Capitan. It brings a number of workflow enhancements, too, e.g. Clip to DEVONthink can be used for non-HTML documents. Updated Twitter, Thumbnail Gallery, Audio, and Video scanners return better and more accurate results. The update also improves the overall performance and reliability, and fixes bugs. Improved: Compatibility to OS X Yosemite and El Capitan. Title of online PDF documents displayed in web views is now used if available. DEVONagent Pro 3.9.2 Documentation, page 6 Data > Add to DEVONthink > via Clip to DEVONthink is now also available if the frontmost tab doesn't display HTML. Download Manager uses up to eight concurrent downloads on OS X 10.10.3 or later again. Alignment of menu extra window in case of crowded menu bars. New Search windows use default plugin settings instead of using the last used plugin settings. Updated icon of Web > Inspectors > Objects menu item. Twitter and Thumbnail Gallery scanners. See also p. 92ff HTML 5 support of Video and Audio scanners; Video scanner recognizes WEBM, 3GPP and 3GP2 videos. See also p. 92ff Optimized scanning by Objects pane. Marketing and New Software default search sets extended and updated. See also p. 87ff Advertisement filter. Following of links. Filtering of links to social bookmarking. UTF-32 support. HTML-to-text conversion. Handling of HTML/HTTP dates. IFRAMEs are no longer stripped from feeds. HTML 5 support of "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command. Communication with background tasks; more reliable termination of tasks on quit. Revised startup alert in case of invalid installation outside of the Applications folder. Registration file is now stored in Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners. Downloads queue is now stored in Application Support. Memory management. Overall performance and reliability. Further minor improvements. Fixed: Sending email via SMTP could fail. Glitches of History menu. Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource was enabled if no resource was loaded. File > Export > Digest as Map (PDF) didn't work any longer. See Also pane wasn't updated after selecting tabs. See Also pane was updated even when it was not visible. Intro movie didn't play due to recent changes in WebKit’s event handling. "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command. See also p. 67ff Crash (caused by ShortcutRecorder framework) after changing the system appearance. Typo in the license agreement. VERSION 3.9.1 This update now searches Stack Overflow and GitHub. A new recipes scanner filters results for contained cooking recipes. The new version also updates a number of scanners and default search sets and displays snippets (text extract of the found recipe or source code block) directly in the Search window. NEW: Recipes scanner looking for pages containing recipes; supports microdata, RDFa and microformats. Stack Overflow and GitHub Code Search plugins.