dfay

How would this work?  Would you want the top hit for the search term(s) from each database?  Or multiple results from each? 

Hi Pedro

I've been playing with Mail Act-On a bit, but don't like the interface, so I'm hoping for this workflow....

I tried running getList.scpt in Applescript Editor (uncommenting the line ' --set Opt to "bill" ') and the result was correctly formed XML with the relevant matching mailboxes correctly.  And as I mentioned before the file ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.palobo.mailactions/ looks like it has a complete list of my mailboxes.

Likewise if I run getUnread.scpt in Applescript Editor.  It returns an XML formatted list of my mailboxes with unread messages successfully, no errors.

Also

the minfo script doesn't work for me either.  I get the two options, but selecting either one just dismisses Alfred without anything else happening.

Let me know if I can help with anything - hope this helps.

Derick

Nice.  Way better than my half-hearted attempt  I didn't look at the rome2rio API.

Although it pulled up a 404 on a search and a preview just now.  I'll see if I can replicate it.

This sounds familiar: http://xkcd.com/1172/

Here is a simple r2r workflow:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1952-rome2rio/

A basic, two-step workflow to search Rome2Rio.  Based on David Ferguson's "Using Script Filters."  Could probably be converted to a one-step version with delimiters by someone who knew php using David's model.

Rome2Rio.alfredworkflow

Here is a very simple workflow I cooked up to map directions from a fixed address to a selected contact.

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1725-mileage-tracker/?hl=mileage

I've never seen rome2rio before, but looking at it, the URL scheme is dead simple:

http://www.rome2rio.com/s/origin/destination

It's quite impressive - since it uses Google Maps to parse the addresses you can be pretty sloppy and still get results.

It would be a matter of capturing origin and destination (modifying David Ferguson's script filter example) then calling the URL.

BTW I think your post should be in Workflow Help & Questions - this forum is for completed workflows.

This is how I've set it up:

keyword -> Launch Apps / Files (with my selected files) -> Run Script

where the script is Language: /usr/bin/osascript 

and the script is as follows:

Another Applescript-based workflow.  It defaults to M/D/YYYY date format but comments in the script explain how to modify for D/M/YYYY

Years are optional.

Follow the date with d m or w to change the view.

It also recognizes "today"

examples:

cal 3/5 - opens Calendar to March 5 of the current year in the last opened view

cal 10/15/2013 - opens Calendar to October 15, 2013 in the last opened view

cal 8/8 d - opens Calendar to August 8 of the current year in day view

cal 8/8 m - opens Calendar to August 8 of the current year in month view

cal 8/8/2014 w - opens Calendar to August 8 of 2014 in week view

cal today w - opens Calendar to the current date in week view

Download: View Calendar on date with view…..alfredworkflow

Thanks!  

I have a bunch of BibDesk applescripts and templates that may be useful to anyone who finds this workflow useful:

http://dfay.fastmail.fm/bibdesk/

Here's a workflow that uses Applescript UI scripting to save the currently open Keynote document as a PDF.  It uses the print dialog rather than the Export... menu item to give more flexibility in the layout etc.  I've tried to comment the script so that the selections can be easily customized.

It stops once the Save... dialog is open, so you can change the filename before saving if desired.

This was an interesting project, which will save me lots of mouse clicks in the long term.  It's surprising how little Applescript seems to have been written for Keynote.

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Updated 2021-01-05 for Big Sur and Keynote 10

Updated 2014-01-31 to fix Applescript UI click issue introduced with Mavericks ( http://macscripter.n...=170632#p170632 for details ).

Still only works with Keynote '09.

Updated 2014-04-02 to work with Keynote 6 (finally Apple has restored Applescript to the new iWork!)

There are now two keywords

kpdf - for use with Keynote 6.2

k5pdf - for use with Keynote 5 (i.e. iWork '09 version)

Hi dfay,

 

Can you please check your error log as Edwin did. Tell me if there something logged.

 

Cheers,

PL

Thanks for following up.  error.log is Zero bytes and empty.

300 mailboxes are probably an artifact of the old days before rapid full-text searching, when anything that wasn't filed could get lost... - just checked and the oldest message is from 1997

Here is a simple workflow that uses UI Applescripting (thanks to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4011487?start=0&tstart=0 ) to delete cookies for a single website in Safari:

Delete cookies for specific site on Safari.alfredworkflow

I need to do this a lot when switching on VPN after a Google Scholar search....hopefully others will find it useful.

If you don't want to enter it yourself, it's here:

Mapper.alfredworkflow

Here is how to do the hardcoded version (i.e. select destination only).  3 elements
 
1) Contact Action

linked to

2) a one line bash script (escaping everything except spaces) - this removes line breaks from the address:

echo "{query}" | tr "\n" " "

linked to 

3) a one line bash script (escaping everything except spaces):

open "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=yourstartingaddress&daddr={query}"

bump to make this possible: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1725-mileage-tracker/ 

needs multiple custom actions per contact

Unless there's another way to get contact info. in Alfred, I don't see an easy way to select start and destination address until this issue is addressed:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/331-descriptive-name-for-custom-call-actions-in-main-alfred-window/

Thanks. I had some trouble getting started but it was b/c I didn't realize that username: is part of the pinboard API key.

Thanks.  I had tried it with "return q" after the last line, but moving it to before "end alfred_script" passes it successfully.

I'd look at the first example here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1283-how-to-script-filters-reusing-a-single-script-filter-or-chaining-multiple-together/

It inputs last name, writes it to a temporary file, calls a second search action that inputs first name, reads last name from the temporary file, deletes the temporary file, and finally outputs first name last name.

You'd just need to modify it to get the addresses from contacts instead of user input (which it sounds like you've figured out already), and change the echo  command in the 2nd bash script to include all the necessary bits for the google maps URL, then replace the Post Notification with a Open URL.

If you're the only one using this, and you always leave from the same place, you could just hard code the first address

I am setting up a very simple workflow (my first).

I have a keyword linked to a Run NSAppleScript action, with a script that executes successfully.  Here's the script:

Excellent.  Could this be extended to allow keyword searches?

I'm having the exact same problem ("Generating Mailbox List" forever), with about 300 mailboxes in three accounts.  If I look at ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.palobo.mailactions/mbCache.plist , it looks like it has a complete list of mailboxes and accounts.  But the "Generating Mailbox List" message doesn't go away, and I can't actually execute any actions.