Hi 4CardsMan.

A belated reply, but the name of a table mustn't be confused with its index in the slide's collection of tables. (The same applies with the names of tables and sheets in the Numbers application.)

I can reproduce your situation by adding a table to a table-less slide, changing the table's default name from "Table 1" to something else ("Fred", say), and then adding a second table. The second table will also take the name "Table 1", since that name's not in use at the time it's created. But it's still the second table in the slide:

Applescript:

tell application "Keynote"
   tell the front document
       tell the current slide
           get {name of table 1, name of table 2} --> {"Fred", "Table 1"}
       end tell
   end tell
end tell

It may be too that subsequent edits will change the order of tables within a slide, but I can't vouch for this.

I don't know if any of the above is true for your tables, but confusion between the name "Table 1" and the specifier table 1 is something that's come up before.

Sometimes when we need a specific object there are other options.
In your case we could use position. In other words if you have 4 table in your slide.
You could ask for the position of whose and set if statement to the one you are interesting in.

And this code could maybe be done without repeat loop.

ex.

Applescript:

tableNameByPosition({109, 74})

on tableNameByPosition(thePosition)
   tell application "Keynote"
       tell front document to tell current slide
           set theTables to every table
       end tell
       
       repeat with t in theTables
           if (position of t = thePosition as list) then
               -- do something
               tell t to set theName to its name
           end if
       end repeat
       try
           return theName
       end try
   end tell
end tableNameByPosition

And without repeat loop

Applescript:

on tableNameByPosition(thePosition)
   tell application "Keynote" to tell front document to tell current slide to set theName to name of every table whose position is thePosition
   return theName as text
end tableNameByPosition

Here is also with error checking

Applescript:

on tableNameByPosition(thePosition)
   tell application "Keynote" to tell front document to tell current slide to set theName to name of every table whose position is (thePosition as list)
   if (theName is {}) then return "Error: Position value is incorrect!"
   return theName as text
end tableNameByPosition

The first script is slower and the second one.

Last edited by Fredrik71 (2021-04-07 04:17:42 am)