fibbsanton

I have created a workflow that uses the HTTP API of op5 Monitor, a commercial network and device Monitoring system based on the open source project Nagios. op5 Monitor is free to use up to 20 monitored devices.

The workflow queries op5 Monitor for the state of objects and offers a large variety of additional features, such as searching, filtering for PROBLEM states, navigating through objects with the <tab> key and even object-specific actions like ACKNOWLEDGE and RESCHEDULE checks.

Stupid me! I didn't know about the "Tab" autocompleting. Now that I have been told, it's obvious and totally clear to me

So, that helped me a lot. I will use the Tab key for navigating and drilling down. As an "action" I would like to jump into another workflow that offers me (depending on the type of element I have chosen) different options, such as "jump to it's web site", "delete this entry", and so on. To achieve this, I have to create a second "script filter" and make the move from one action to this script filter. The only way I have seen up to now to achieve this is the above mentioned AppleScript method, which unfortunately seems to not work using the {query} macro. Is there a way handing over data to another script filter using appleScript without having to save stuff into a temporary file?

Thanks and cheers

Christian

Hi folks,

I am working on a Alfred workflow that will have elements in different levels to browse through. I would like to call a workflow and show (and filter) the first level elements, then, when choosing one of these elements I want to list (and filter) the sub-elements below this specific top-level element, and so on. At every of the elements I would like to have a secondary option which allows me to do other things with this element instead of jumping into the sub-elements (cmd-click).

I now have several questions on which could be the best practices for that to achieve:

I have found it very practical to pass the selected element as a „autocomplete“ argument and set the „validity“ to „no“, so when selecting an element, I can pass this one to the very same workflow and display its sub-elements. Very nice, because the Alfred dialog doesn’t disappear from the screen, it just refreshes nicely etc. Unfortunately, when using this variant I have no possibility to go further in the workflow, for example using the cmd-click to do „other things“ with this object. Is there a way to combine these two?

Another way of calling one workflow from within itself is an AppleScript:

—

tell application „Alfred 2“

  search „mykeyword „

end tell

—

Unfortunately, I am not able to combine this with the „{query}“ macro. When I use 

  search „mykeyword {query}“

this doesn’t work. Any idea why? Of course, I can save the {query} into a tmp-file and read this tmp-file afterwards, but this method would make some other things complicated. How can I pass a selection to „myself“ the best way?

Is there a way to get „back“ to the previous query somehow? Lets say, I am at the level of seeing some sub-elements that I have called somehow (using the method you guys will hopefully suggest me to use to solve the above issue) and I want to get back to see the upper-level elements. The only way seems to be to hit „ESC“, „cmd-space“ „arrow up“, „arrow up“ to use the history function. Is there any better way?

I hope my questions are not too confusing, but I am unfortunately not yet able to give examples, as I am in a very early stage of developing this workflow.

Looking forward to any feedback.

Christian