Re: need help completing workflow for emailing files
Re: need help completing workflow for emailing files
- Subject: Re: need help completing workflow for emailing files
- From: Sasha Chhabra <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:37:03 -0500
Yeah you'll want to set the clipboard contents to a variable, as long as you don't modify that variable within the code itself, it's still that same variable no matter its value, so you won't need to change it.
You'll need "get contents of clipboard" then "set value of variable," where you'll create a new variable and then go into the package to get the string to use elsewhere in the workflow, such as the subject line.
Actually though, you don't need to do the trick with finding the string for the variable, as with some actions (I just tested the new mail message one) you just start typing the name of the variable and you can insert it there.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Terry Wedd
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Sasha,
Thanks for the quick reply.
From the sounds of the article, you would need to go into the Package and replace the variable every time you wanted to change it, is this your understanding?
If so, then it doesn't really help me. What I want to be able to do is to make the clipboard content (text) the variable and for this to be pasted into the subject line of the email. It's relatively easy to do this manually but when I'm sending 30+ of these a day it all adds up.
I have tried to start another action using Get Contents of Clipboard passing to Get Value of Variable (text) but nothing happens with the text in the clipboard.
I'm pretty new to this and am at a loss as to how to proceed.
Regards,
Terry Wedd
Production Manager
CT Creative
Direct: 0390 933 004
Office: 1300 220 027
CTCreative Photographic Services
6/333 CANTERBURY ROAD | CANTERBURY | VICTORIA | 3126
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On 28/02/2012, at 1:01 PM, Sasha Chhabra wrote:
Essentially you'll need to work off of this idea if I'm understanding you correctly:
Basically make one of those names a variable then insert the string in the subject of the email.
Satisfactory?
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Terry Wedd
<email@hidden> wrote:
Having only started using Automator recently I need help finishing a workflow for resizing and emailing sets of jpeg files.
The workflow as it stands consists of:
Visual check of files in Bridge before upload, at which point I copy a filename to the clipboard.
Then run a Workflow with the following steps:
Ask for Finder Items (these are on a local server)
Copy Finder Items (to folder on local drive, to avoid creating unnecessary files on Server)
Scale Images (800 px)
New Mail Message including a signature. (different workflows for different recipients)
All quite simple and works well.
However, I need to place the name of one of the files (all files have the same name and a sequence no) into the Subject line of the email in front of the word Proofs. A Watch Me Do will not work, so I was trying to get Get Contents of Clipboard to paste into the Subject line.
Any ideas on how to achieve this last step would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Terry Wedd
Production Manager
CT Creative
Direct: 0390 933 004
Office: 1300 220 027
CTCreative Photographic Services
6/333 CANTERBURY ROAD | CANTERBURY | VICTORIA | 3126
P 1300 22 00 27 | E
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