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Looks like the latest update 8.0.6 has broken it again, there's now no search box so it selects all of the items on the list and connects to the first server.

Yep, it's well and truly broken. There's no longer a search so there's no way to narrow down the items and select one programatically. Crap.

On the other hand, it looks like 8.0.6 has full URI support now. It's possible I can generate the RDP URIs and use those to connect. It won't be for a while though.

I realize this has been around a while now, but could you verify what 'nogui' does? I assumed it would launch without the VM Library window showing. It seems instead to be launching in some fashion such that no window displays at all. That is, I cannot seem to find the VM anywhere on the CMD+Tab or Dock or menubar lists. That seems... odd.

"The nogui option suppresses the user interface, including startup dialog box, to allow non‐interactive scripting."

Nothing shows when you use nogui. You have to start the VMWare Fusion app separately.

It is very difficult to get a user's current location via workflow. Alfred, though, can access OS X's Location Services API. A {location} token would make retrieving this data faster, more accurate, and easier. {location:latitude} and {location:longitude} would be cool too 

 

Cheers 

I'm going to register my disagreement with Alfred providing location services to workflows. Yes, it would be very, very helpful to workflow creators. But turning it on for Alfred would turn it on for _all_ workflows, and I, personally, don't want that.

You might want to take a look at the funnel workflow as well. http://www.packal.org/workflow/funnel

Got you. You mean rich text.

 

 

Me neither, alas. But Alfred only does plain text, and it just strikes me as more sensible to chase up the developer of a clipboard manager to add search/keyboard shortcuts than the developer of an app launcher to add a full-featured clipboard manager.

 

Personally, I use ClipMenu for my clipboard and TextExpander for snippets. Right tool for the job and all that.

I tried ClipMenu. It was completely unreliable for me. I'd select item #1 and it would paste item #2. I'd select item #2 and it would paste item #1. Alfred, on the other hand, is 100% reliable. Personally, I'd love for Alfred to completely replace clipboard managers and Keyboard Maestro. I _don't_ want or expect it to completely replace Text Expander. 

Hi Guys,

 

Thanks for the workflow, another time saver there.

 

One thing I've noticed, if I have a session open and go to open it again it passes the session name to that session.

 

E.g. rdp, select server 11 = server 11 rdp brought to front GREAT, but the text server 11 is passed to a search box within that server?

 

Anyone encountered the same?

 

Thanks for the great workflow.

 

// Gary

Yep, it's one of the downsides of UI scripting instead of true AppleScript support from the app. I put in a feature request on the Microsoft support site but I'm not holding my breath.

Thanks for the quick response Ted!

Heres my error message:

 

Starting debug for 'Menu Bar Search'

 

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] Code 1: main.rb:4: undefined method `encode' for "m":String (NoMethodError)

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] Code 1: main.rb:4: undefined method `encode' for "minimize":String (NoMethodError)

Ok, you can download an updated workflow from Packal or use this direct link - https://github.com/packal/repository/raw/master/com.tedwise.menubarsearch/menu_bar_search.alfredworkflow

I'm not able to get this workflow to work for me. After entering the keyword, as soon as I start entering an argument, the command disappears and I go back to default searching. Any idea what could be going on? I already checked the accessibility setting, at least in the place Ted screen shotted. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Open up the workflow and click on the debug button:

Then invoke Alfred and try a menu command, e.g., 'm file'. There should be some debug output in the bottom of the Alfred preferences window showing some kind of problem. Copy and paste the output in this discussion.

Chrome Bookmarks

 

Frustrated with current bookmark searchers I created this with SPEED in mind. I tried out many methods and languages for creating the fastest bookmark searcher without dependencies, just plug and play. This is the final result.

 

This will search all of your bookmarks very quickly using fuzzy matching to easily match names and urls of your bookmarks. For instance "foo" might match "food" or "flood warning" or even "flounder" using n-gram to rank these results.

 

View and Contribute on Github

 

Direct Download

 

Thanks for looking!

 

You appear to have some quoting/escaping issues. Only a very few queries work for me, most result in errors along these lines:

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::addChild(): unterminated entity reference dept_id=458139&newsid=12176189&PAG=461&rfi=9 in /Users/ctwise/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.220C307E-D429-4527-8E5A-27216286206C/bookmarks.php on line 40

 

Knowing next to nothing about scripting, I managed to adapt the HTML encode one-liner into an HTML decode one-liner:

    "HTML - decode": "php -r \"echo html_entity_decode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'), ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');\"",

Awesome! I added it to the workflow.

Simple workflow for quickly checking the status of a local RabbitMQ instance. It will give you a link to the management page, the instance status (Running, Loaded, etc.) and it will list the queue status of all the queues defined in the instance. You can start and stop the local RabbitMQ instance. The workflow assumes RabbitMQ was installed via Homebrew and that it is running on the default port.

Download from Packal - https://github.com/packal/repository/raw/master/com.tedwise.rabbitmq/rabbitmq.alfredworkflow

The "funnel" keyword script filter has the title "Funnel selected text through filter" but it seems to ignore selected text and use the clipboard contents instead.

You are correct. The only way in Alfred to act on selected text is through a hotkey. Otherwise the Alfred input box becomes the text source. I'll update the workflow.

Use this workflow everyday and after an update to the RDP app yesterday from the App Store (v8.0.5) it no longer starts the session automatically. Any ideas?

It's the upgrade notice dialog box that comes up. Start the RDP app directly and dismiss the dialog box. Everything will go back to normal. You can thank:

1. Microsoft for displaying the stupid box.

2. Microsoft for not supporting Applescript in the app.

3. The brittleness of UI scripting since there's no Applescript support.

Hmm, nothing's happening. What am I doing wrong? Tried the Markdown-HTML filter and the bulletize filter. Using both selected text and clipboard text.

 

On 10.9.2

If you're using the latest Alfred, can you turn on workflow debugging and see if you see any output?

I just tested the workflow and it's working fine here. The only thing I can think of is your cursor isn't somewhere that allows pasting.

Alfred relies on Spotlight, so it _should_ be able to do this, e.g., if you type in 'grd' then Alfred could search using mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName=='g*r*d*'c" which might return 'generate_index_command.rb' or 'gnutls_x509_crq_set_challenge_password.3'.

But, that doesn't take into account word separators or some other complex filtering. If what you _really_ want is for 'grd' to return 'gnutls_record_discarded.3' but _not_ 'gnutls_record_get_discarded.3' then you're out of luck because Spotlight doesn't support grep. That said, you can create a workflow that does what you want, run the mdfind using the letters entered to get the base files, then filter them using a fuzzy search algorithm or grep and return them as files.

Hello,

 

Total newbie here, so go easy on me :¬)

 

I've browsed the Workflows forum and can't find one that does something I'm certain is really, really easy.

 

How would I assign a non-intuitive search term to a specific file? e.g. I have a file that's named "wxyz.pages" and I want it to appear at the top of my Alfred list of results when I type “bob” into the Alfred search field?

 

So, really, this is about setting a default result against a particular search term.

 

Has someone already done this in the “Share your Workflows” forum, or can someone help me design my own??

 

Thanks

 

Giles 

Tag the file and search for tags.

Never mind, looks like a CoreData thing. You'll have to make sure you're not including the folder in your search directories  - ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/CoreData/com.potionfactory.TheHitList

How are they showing up at all? The Hit List tasks are stored in a database, not in the filesystem.

Yet another workflow for listing recently accessed documents. This one lists both the recent documents tracked by OS/X and the recent documents tracked by Alfred and merges them together. You can open a recent document or reveal it in Finder (or Path Finder if installed).

It's located on Packal - https://github.com/packal/repository/raw/master/com.tedwise.recentdocs/recent_documents.alfredworkflow

Update: A bug was reported when dealing with multibyte (UTF8) filenames. Download the newest release to fix it.

Yet another RDP workflow. This one works exclusively with Microsoft Remote Desktop and lists all of the defined desktops. It works reliably, regardless of the state of the Microsoft Remote Desktop application, this has been a problem with other workflows. You can select from the desktop list or continue typing to filter down to just the desktop you want. It's on Packal already.

https://github.com/packal/repository/raw/master/com.tedwise.rdp/microsoft_remote_desktop.alfredworkflow

plutil -convert json /file/path.plist does the same on a Mac.

'plutil -convert json' vomits on many plist elements, like dates and data fields. Don't use it on system plists, it'll fail randomly when some app stores something in the plist that plutil doesn't like. 

Just a quick bash workflow that might come in handy: the workflow queries "What's My IP Address?" in order to find your external IP and uses ifconfig to find your internal one(s). If you select one of them, then the IP address will be copied to your clipboard.

 

Find it on Packal.

And you can find one that was already there - http://packal.org/workflow/network-info

That one works for all interfaces including VPN tunnels.

The canonical reason for this is a third-party contacts data store, e.g., LDAP or a user database.

The plutil parsing of com.apple.LaunchServices.plist fails on my system with an error "invalid object in plist for destination format". My file contains a '<data>' field for the LSHighResolutionModeIsMagnified key.