Hey Darcy, will do! :)
Am looking at using the 'watch me do' action and possibly using a
keystroke to initiate the workflow at the moment, as the only plugin
option that I can find that seems available at all times is adding it
to the scripts menu. So we'll see...
Have an awesome night!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Nov 23, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hey Cara. Let me know what you find out about the best way to save
the work flow. I'm just beginning with automater myself, and
haven't done much with saving things as plugins and the like.
Darcy
On 23-Nov-07, at 2:09 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Darcy you ROCK!!! -was just checking it out again now and was
about to give up for a while! lol! Yeah, I just saw the fact that
it wanted a url thanks to your note! Woohoo! It works like a
charm now!!!...
Am now trying to figure out what type of plugin to save it as so
that I can access it easily in the proper situation via context
menu, so we'll see what happens.
thanks again, you've saved me a whole lot of aggravation!...
Have a wonderful day!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Nov 23, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi Cara. You've almost got it. You just need one more action.
After the new text edit document action, you want the "get current
page from safari" action. This passes in the url of the currently
open safari web page. The get text from web page action expects a
url to be passed to it.
BTW, when you select an action, it shows you what an action
expects as its input, and what it will pass to the next action.
Darcy
On 23-Nov-07, at 3:00 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Hi all, am just starting out here with Automator, and am confused
about something, so I'm hoping someone here might give this a go...
I've put together a work flow with three actions;
1 create a new text edit doc
2 get text from current webpage
3 set contents of text edit doc
So what I'm getting so far is simply a text edit doc with only a
return character in it. I'm not sure what's up in that the set
contents of text edit document is supposed to take the text
output of the previous step, I.E. the text received from the web
page, and then place it in the already opened blank document.
there's nothing obvious to me at the moment, why this isn't
working, as nothing in the descripts of these actions says to me
that any of them need an extra step or such that I might be
overlooking?...
any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
If I can get this running, then I'm hoping to add functionality
to take the text in the web page from the VO cursor, and search
for it in the Text Edit doc after it's been opened, so that the
effective result is that someone on a webpage can simply issue a
command, which will open a text edit ådocument of the same page,
and place them exactly where they were in Safari, so they can
then read the page with VO A from the cursor to the end of the
document.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks a bunch, and y'all rock!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
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