Tyler Eich

Tyler, your changes in the workflow did the trick! Now it takes my AppID & retrieves information. Thanks a ton for taking time to re do your code! I very much appreciate it!
 
bpsonner (American living in Budapest)

A lot of workflows are made to work with specific applications. It would be great if you add an option to limit workflows actions to work only with indicated apps or to exclude some apps that we don't want WF to work. This brings two main benefits especially for workflows based on hotkeys:
 
you will not trigger some workflow by incident in other app that is not supposed to work (which could cause some strange behaviours, if for example workflow triggers some others keyboard shortcuts through AppleScript). you will be able to use same shortcuts in many applications that triggers specific workflows for indicated apps.

Wooooo very handy! 

Ah cool. I found your workflow but didn't know it also had a color picker. Very nice workflow.

There is actually a 0.9 Leopard build on the v1 support page: http://v1support.alfredapp.com/kb:minimum-requirements
 
Cheers,
Andrew

It'd be cool to have the complete definitions of words viewable, and in larger text… maybe by selecting the desired result first so the selection doesn't get cluttered.
That way looking up words would be more self-contained and you wouldn't have to launch the dictionary app to get the whole text.

Yeah good point. I forgot about that. I just remembered that TotalSpaces did it and provides a lot of other options as well. Either way. Thanks Tyler

I already have a ticket for this for the 2.1 release which will improve workflows in general. I'm going to move this to noted to keep bugs focused.

I'll add defence against this in Alfred, but the behaviour of this workflow will remain undefined, and up to the workflow developer to prevent confusion.

You can use cmd+backspace to clear the text field for new text

One thing that is frustrating me is that copying images doesn't show up on the clipboard. Please make this a feature!

I would love a way to sort the files and folders inside other folders.  For example, sort by last modified, not just alphabetically.  
 
 

I believe Cmd-O will open the contact in Contacts.app
Cheers

WOW This one is very useful! Alfred is getting very developer friendly with colors and this one!

I've made more than one workflow where I wanted the ability to copy some text to the clipboard *or* open a URL in the browser (using an action modifier to trigger the URL case).  In both cases, I start with a script filter, but what I want to copy to the clipboard is not the actual URL, but some different data.  My script filter would like to send two pieces of information, and this is no problem to do just by concatenating them and adding a custom delimiter.  The problem is that "Open URL" can only be an action and not an output.  So because only one {query} is allowed, and "Open URL" has no parsing abilities (other than adding some static portions of the URL), I must past only the URL data through the query.  This means that I cannot pass the rest of the data to the clipboard copy portion of the workflow.  If only passing the URL, I'd basically need to duplicate the same code in the script filter.  Of course it's not hard to write your own script to open a URL in the default browser (which is what I've done), but if "Open URL" could be an output (and not just an action) then it would actual be useful for these use cases.
 
Example below is essentially what I'd prefer to do, instead I replace "Open URL" with a "Run Script" than handles the parsing and open URL functionality.  I'd still need the "Run Script" anyway to parse the two-part query, but it could reuse the exact same script from the top "Run Script".  Then I'd connect to "Open URL" on the far right if it was an output option.
 

Spot on. Thank you sir.

Alfred uses Spotlight's index for searching; if you include blacklisted folders in Spotlight's privacy field, they will be excluded from indexing and search.
 
See here:

Thx Tyler,
 
this is a great description and I think I finally got it

The cache should be used for data that will not be needed very long. For example, in my Colors workflow, I use the cache to store the color preview images generated by my script; the files are for that moment, only saved for quick access, deletable, unnecessary, and can be made again.The data folder is for information that will be needed again and again. For example, user credentials (like the AppID in my Wolfram|Alpha workflow, passwords, usernames, etc.). They are necessary for functionality, and if deleted, need to be replaced manually.
The workflow's actual path folder holds scripts, non-changing icons, and other core components of the workflow. These will be deleted and replaced if the workflow is updated, thus updating the components.
Bundleid is used to identify your workflow. It is used as the name for your workflow's cache folder and data folder; workflows without bundleids cannot be safely updated.
Hope this makes sense

Well spotted Tyler, you beat me to it Thanks for helping

Looks like you're missing the quotes around the arg value; it should be:
currentValue = 42; print("<items><item uid='foo' arg='" + currentValue + "' valid='yes'... (Notice the extra single quotes before and after the double quotes)
 
Cheers

Looks like you're missing the quotes around the arg value; it should be:
currentValue = 42; print("<items><item uid='foo' arg='" + currentValue + "' valid='yes'... (Notice the extra single quotes before and after the double quotes)
 
Cheers

I would like to make workflow for tagging files with openmeta.
At the moment I came up with File Action that copies files paths to clipboard and then
I run tagging script with keyword followed by tags.
It would be much better if paths in buffer were passed to script in way similar to query - {files}(?).
 
Then I could put files in buffer, type keyword and tags to run workflow.
 

I created a workflow to display the current date and time in a configurable format.
Pressing enter will copy to clipboard.
 

 
You can also add and subtract time. Examples:
date 3w: today + 3 weeks date -2y: today - 2 years date 2m -5d: today + 2 months - 5 days View GitHub for more details.
 
Direct Download.

Thanks, will be included on my next git push.