Re: Birthday Email Automation
Re: Birthday Email Automation
- Subject: Re: Birthday Email Automation
- From: hd <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:14:06 +0000
This doesn't work for me in Snow Leopard either. Google "automator find birthdays snow leopard" and you'll find quite a few people with the same problem. The "Find People with Birthdays…" action appears to be broken in Snow Leopard.
Use the "Find Address Book People" action instead, and set the action parameters to look for birthdays. This works successfully for me (10.6.2).
HTH
H
On 24 Jan 2010, at 11:36, Annu Babu wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> Many thanks for your thought. I did check the results button it doesn't seem to pull any contacts from address book.
>
> Cheers!
> Annu
>
> On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:17 AM, Todd Fernandez wrote:
>
>> Annu,
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Annu Babu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to create a workflow using automator for sending out birthday emails automatically. Apparently, have been trying really hard to get this working, unfortunately I haven't had any luck yet. I have Mac OS X 10.6.2 running on my Mac.
>>>
>>> Below mentioned is the work flow and the error
>>>
>>> Step 1: Address Book Action : Find People with Birthdays
>>> Step 2 : Mail Action : Send Birthday Greetings
>>> == Workflow ==
>>> Asks "Find people whose birthday is and a pop up menu" with continue button
>>> Enter the message and choose the random image with continue button
>>> Throws error ""The action "Send Birthday Greetings" was not supplied with the required data""
>>>
>>> I was wondering if I could get any thoughts...
>>
>> That is the error I see when there are no people with birthdays found (e.g. I have the Find People with Birthdays action configured for Today, but no one in my Address Book has a birthday today), so the first action doesn't return any results. If it does find people with birthdays, this workflow works fine for me. You can also click the Results button at the bottom of the Find People with Birthdays action to see exactly which Address Book records it is finding and passing to the Send Birthday Greetings action.
>>
>> Todd
>
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