Delete all completed Task List items

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Would it be possible to add the ability to delete all completed/checked Task List items in a document?

I tend to use Bike for a lot of to do lists, and when I end up with a bunch of checked-off items, I then have to go and manually delete those rows. It would be good to be able to hit a keyboard shortcut and have them all be deleted at once.

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I don’t really like offering scripts which delete,
but it is possible to write a script which does this,
and assign a keystroke to it.

A rough draft – not for live use – just for experimenting on dummy data,
might look something like this:

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    // NB ONLY FOR TESTING ON DUMMY DATA
    // NOT RECOMMENDED FOR LIVE USE ON REAL FILES.

    // Deletes all rows in the front document which
    // are checked as "done"

    // Undoing this script would require a series of ⌘Z
    // or `Edit > Undo` – undoing each deletion one by one.

    const
        bike = Application("Bike"),
        doc = bike.documents.at(0);

    return doc.exists()
        ? doc.rows.attributes()
        .flat()
        .flatMap(
            attr => "data-done" === attr.name()
                ? (() => {
                    const
                        doneRow = attr.containerRow(),
                        k = doneRow.name();

                    return (
                        doneRow.delete(),
                        k
                    );
                })()
                : []
        )
        .join("\n")
        : "No document open in Bike.";
})();

To test in Script Editor, set the language selector at top left to JavaScript (rather than AppleScript)

See: Using Scripts - Bike

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Thank you, @complexpoint. I’ll have a play with this. Totally understand about being hesitant with handing out scripts that delete, but I did use an app (whose name escape me right now), that did just this for done items.

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A slightly fuller script, combined with the filePath of an archive.bike file,
could remove them from the front document and append them to the archive.

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