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I'm trying to make an automation that adds people to a FaceTime call. I tried using Accessibility Inspector to find where the + button is in the UI. Link to Screenshot

I'm don't know much AppleScript, so I just copied all the UI element types and names/indexes from Accessibility Inspector into Script Editor, but it gave me the error "Expected end of line but found number." When I remove the section 1 and collection 1 parts it builds, but when I run it it says that it "can't get group 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1." I've tried replacing "section" and "collection" with "UI Element," but that still didn't work. Do "collections" and "sections" have a different name when using AppleScript, or am I doing something else wrong?

Here's my current code:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "FaceTime"
        click button 1 of group 1 of section 1 of collection 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1
    end tell
end tell
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    System Events doesn't have section or collection UI elements, so those may be ignored elements or just names/titles. See the Processes Suite in its scripting dictionary for UI element classes. Commented Jan 5 at 1:14
  • Where would I find that? Commented Jan 5 at 3:04
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    That would be in the System Events scripting dictionary, which can be opened in the Script Editor. Commented Jan 5 at 4:02
  • I use this trick to get the UI element Commented Jan 5 at 7:04
  • Automator's Watch Me Do action is also surprisingly useful, as the action events can be pasted to the Script Editor. Commented Jan 5 at 16:42
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