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Hey All,

So I have a main group A. In group A I have a group called B. Group B has a group inside called C. In the card script I have this code,
Problem is I am getting the long ID of group C when I really want the reference to group B. Any way to work around this without having to create a for loop that will search through all the groups in group A to check the name of the groups for the last group B that is found?

How about
delete word 1 to 4 in tID?

Simon

The "owner" of a subgroup would work your problem in reverse.

But you can still find a child that way, though you would still have to loop through the several groups until the "owner of grp "B" = "group A":

repeat with y = the number of groups down to 1
if the owner of group y = group "A" then put the long id of group y
end repeat

A problem might come up when more than one group is owned by group "A", but in the case you put out, this would not occur.

Craig Newman

Both suggestions work great but "owner" is what I was looking for. Just deleting words from the long ID could leave me open to issues in the future.

Thank you both for taking the time to post a response.

Good.

But be aware that the keyword "last" is not stable for groups. Works everywhere else, though. Read my user note in the dictionary under "last.

I think the "owner" path is better for this reason.

Craig Newman