Re: Birthday Email Automation
Re: Birthday Email Automation
- Subject: Re: Birthday Email Automation
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:54:26 -0800
- Thread-topic: Birthday Email Automation
Oops, you gave away a bit of info there, Todd. ;-)
I guess everyone can look forward to a fix in an update coming to our
neighborhoods soon...
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Paul Berkowitz
> From: Todd Fernandez <email@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:03:41 -0800
> To: Annu Babu <email@hidden>
> Cc: Automator Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Birthday Email Automation
>
> Annu,
>
> Having done a bit more research into this issue, I see why this works
> for me but not for you. Sorry for the unhelpful post.
>
> The workaround provided later in this thread should get your workflow
> working for now.
>
> Todd
>
> On Jan 24, 2010, at 3:36 AM, 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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