opening an Address Book contact as a window

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

Not sure if this is possible. I want to have Apple Script open a contact’s card based on an email.

I am trying to add a ‘service’ to Mail.app that will pop open the address card of the email selected from Address Book.

I think I can figure out how to scan the AB for the contact that contains the email, then set variables to the phone number and stuff, then display it, BUT, I would it to just launch AB and have the contact displayed.

is this possible?

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#2

Hi,

I don’t know how to implement this in Mail (probably with a service) but this code opens an Address Book card by a given name


try
	tell application "Address Book" to set theID to id of person "John Doe"
	open location "addressbook://" & theID
on error
	display dialog "no matching contact found"
end try
#3

Thank You. Half way there. Now need to figure out how to find ID of Person based on an email address.