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I've seen several workflows that do things like autocomplete tags, or folders, or something else. I'm wondering if there is a way to autocomplete mailboxes in mail.app? My use case would be a keyword to move a mail message, allowing the user to start typing the desired mailbox with the workflow providing matches.

Any ideas?

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "Mail"
		set lst to (get selection)
		set _msgRecent to my GetNewerMessage(lst)
		repeat with _msg in _msgRecent
			set _msgSubject to _msg's subject
			set _msgBody to _msg's content
			set _msgSender to _msg's sender
			set _msgURL to "message://%3c" & _msg's message id & "%3e" -- Fixed: OmniFocus doesn't accept "<" and ">" as part of a URL
			tell application "OmniFocus"
				tell quick entry
					set _task to make new inbox task with properties {name:_msgSubject, note:_msgBody}
					tell note of _task
						insert "From: " & _msgSender & "  Original Message" & (ASCII character 10) & (ASCII character 10) at before paragraphs
						set value of attribute "link" of style of characters -1 thru -17 of first paragraph to _msgURL
					end tell
				end tell
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
	
	tell application "OmniFocus"
		tell quick entry to open
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "OmniFocus"
			key code 125
		end tell
	end tell
	
end alfred_script

on GetNewerMessage(lst)
	if lst = {} then return
	if (count lst) = 1 then return (item 1 of lst)
	set msg to (item 1 of lst)
	repeat with i from 1 to (count lst) - 1
		using terms from application "Mail"
			if CompareDates(date received of msg, date received of (item (i + 1) of lst)) then
				set msg to (item i of lst)
			else
				set msg to (item (i + 1) of lst)
			end if
		end using terms from
	end repeat
	return msg
end GetNewerMessage

on CompareDates(A, B)
	if A > B then
		return true
	else
		return false
	end if
end CompareDates

This script is what I am using right now.

I have a print workflow that I'd like to tie to Alfred. I assume there is a way to do so in AppleScript? The workflow was created in Automator and is in the typical place. Print menu item -> PDF drop down menu

Is there a way to tell Alfred to run this?

Ah, I get it. I was able to loop through the arguments and call the external trigger each time. Works perfectly. Thanks for the hint! 

I have a workflow that goes through several steps, with a couple filters in there too.

Right now I invoke it with a keyword and an argument. I'd like to pass multiple arguments, running the workflow for each argument passed. I understand that the arguments are passed as a string, so it if were all one script being run I could just loop in the code. Is there a way to take those arguments and pass them along the rest of the workflow one at a time?

I'm using the AppleScript below as part of a workflow to get mail messages to OmniFocus. This recently broke. I'm just wondering if anyone has a clue what the issue may be? Not sure if this is due to an Apple update, or an OmniFocus one.

Error message

[2017-01-11 10:29:46][input.keyword] Processing output of 'action.applescript' with arg ''
[2017-01-11 10:29:46][ERROR: action.applescript] {
    NSAppleScriptErrorAppName = OmniFocus;
    NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage = "Unable to convert the string \U201cmessage://<03D12B465157E52C189B6D836173733D254AF6F9@AMX>\U201d to a url. Make sure that the string is a valid URL, including quoting characters that aren't valid in URLs.";
    NSAppleScriptErrorMessage = "OmniFocus got an error: Unable to convert the string \U201cmessage://<03D12B465157E52C189B6D836173733D254AF6F9@AMX>\U201d to a url. Make sure that the string is a valid URL, including quoting characters that aren't valid in URLs.";
    NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = 1;
    NSAppleScriptErrorRange = "NSRange: {1161, 94}";
}
[2017-01-11 10:29:46][action.applescript] Processing output of 'output.notification' with arg ''

applescript

on alfred_script(q)
(*
OmniFocus Selected Mail Messages.applescript
	Copyright (c) 2015 Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch: http://rentzsch.com
	Some rights reserved: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit
  
Pure AppleScript reimplementation of OmniGroup's Clip-o-Tron for OmniFocus.

Hopefully this implementation will be more resilient against OS X, Mail, and OmniFocus updates.
Successfully tested against OS X 10.10.1, OmniFocus 1.10.6, and OmniFocus 2.0.4.

References:
<http://daringfireball.net/2007/12/message_urls_leopard_mail>
<http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=30754>
<http://shawnblanc.net/box/smarter_clip-o-tron.txt>
 *)

tell application "Mail"
	set _sel to the selection
	repeat with _msg in _sel
		set _msgSubject to _msg's subject
		set _msgBody to _msg's content
		set _msgSender to _msg's sender
		set _msgURL to "message://<" & _msg's message id & ">"
		tell application "OmniFocus"
			tell quick entry
				set _task to make new inbox task with properties {name:_msgSubject, note:_msgBody}
				tell note of _task
					insert "From: " & _msgSender & "  Original Message" & (ASCII character 10) & (ASCII character 10) at before paragraphs
					set value of attribute "link" of style of characters -1 thru -17 of first paragraph to _msgURL
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

tell application "OmniFocus"
	tell quick entry to open
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab
end alfred_script