Misha

On 3/1/2018 at 12:00 PM, Tsunami said:

Make sure that under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control, "Switch to Desktop 1" is not mapped to Ctrl+1.

 

This was the solution, thanks!

Tiny question: is it just me or is the shortcut "ctrl+1" not available as a hotkey in a workflow?

I'm definitely doing funky things. And I'm also sure the things I do could be done differently and better. (I built my own time-clock (checking in and out for certain tasks). For that, this  setup works for me because 1. it shows all the options at once, while (I believe) a file filter wouldn't 2. I can adjust the icons (they are dynamic) and 3. I can attach arguments to these options that I use later on in the workflow.)

The script reads files in a folder, and creates a script filter (list) based on the names of each of the files. In that way at least it works fine.... So yes, maybe because of Alfred's parser... Thanks for your help anyway

Thanks Deanishe for your quick reply. The item point solved the problem! (I changed the directory to "mydirectory" because of privacy reasons). I am sure there are more elegant ways of doing this, but for anyone trying to do the same, this code works for me:

cat << EOB

{"items": [

EOB

for f in /mydirectory/*; 

do

x=$(basename "$f")
x1="${x%.*}"
x12=$(echo $x | sed 's/_.*//')

cat << EOB


    {
        "uid": "$x1",
        "type": "file",
        "title": "$x1",
        "subtitle": "",
        "arg": "/mydirectory/$x1",
        "autocomplete": "$x1",
        "icon": {
            "path": "colour_$x12.png"
        }
    },


EOB
done

cat << EOB
]}
EOB

Hi all, is it possible to create a dynamic script filter, in the sense that the list of options is created on the basis of the contents of a directory? I currently have this code, which seems to work in the terminal, but it doesn't produce the list that I would like:

for f in mydirectory/*;

do

x=$(basename "$f")
x1="${x%.*}"
x12=$(echo $x | sed 's/_.*//')

cat << EOB

{"items": [
    {
        "uid": "$x1",
        "type": "file",
        "title": "$x1",
        "subtitle": "",
        "arg": "mydirectory/$x1",
        "autocomplete": "$x1",
        "icon": {
            "path": "colour_$x12.png"
        }
    },
]}
EOB
done

Thanks a lot guys, these are great suggestions. I decided for now to just use a file action, which is working fine. (Thanks for the great example-workflow @GuiB!)

Hi guys, I have a workflow in which I use the (selection in macOS) as the "query" in a bash script (it runs an OCR on the selected file). To do this, I use the "argument: Selection in macOS" of the "hotkey", but I would rather use a keyword (rather than a hotkey) to run the script (so that I can for instance more easily run the OCR_english and OCR_dutch versions of the script). Is this possible?

@Vero, just wondering, is it maybe also possible to activate a workflow with the "selection in macOS" as argument by using a keyword as a trigger (rather than a hotkey)?

Wow, I thought Alfred couldn't get any better, but it just did. Thanks a lot!

Hi guys, I wrote a little AppleScript that copies and pastes a text selection to the Alfred bar with a certain prefix: see below.

The thing is, when I select text, and run the .scpt file from the Alfred bar (i.e. I look up the file and press enter) it works fine, but when I try to link this  script to an Alfred keyword or hotkey, it stops working. I tried these three methods:

• I simply copied the content of the .scpt file into an Alfred workflow (actions --> RunNSAppleScript). Doesn't work.
• I wrote a bash script calling the .scpt file and attached it to the action  "run script". Doesn't work.
• I used the action "open file" and attached the .scpt file to it. Doesn't work.

It's not that these three methods don't do anything. In fact weird things happen. The text selection expands to adjacent words for example. Or I hear the "beep" of the mac "alert sound". I also sometimes seems as if the delay of 0.5 does not work.

Its' not such a big deal. I can run the script by simply launching it by searching the file in the Alfred bar, but I'm still generally curious what is going on here. Any ideas?

Quote

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down

tell application "System Events" to keystroke space using command down

delay 0.5

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "n"

tell application "System Events" to keystroke space

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down

Thanks, I will continue the search over there!

Thanks for the quick reply. No, stupid of me to not check that first. Spotlight also doesn't search inside .tex files either. I have found some posts about "spotlight importers" but so far I haven't found a solution yet. I know this is not the right place to ask these questions, but do you by any chance have a tip?

Hi all, when I search for content inside files (which is under the prefix "in" by default), Alfred doesn't seem to read my .tex files. I have seen a couple of posts about difficulties with filtering .tex files, but I couldn't find any thread about this specific issue. Any tips? Thanks!

Thanks @Vero!

Hi guys, I have this same issue. I am working with Commander One and would like to combine it with Alfred. I would like Alfred to use Commander One just as it currently using Finder. Did any of you maybe find a solution to this?

Thanks!

Thanks a lot! That is exactly what I was looking for. 

Thanks for all your work. Alfred is the best!

Misha

Hi Vero, thanks a lot for your quick response. I knew about these moves, it's just that I don't want the contacts to always clog up the lists of results. I only want the contacts to be in the results list when I for instance type a "c" first. Is that possible?

Hi guys, is it already possible to do this in Alfred? I mean to have Alfred show the results that you get in the terminal (when you use this command in Terminal)?

Hi guys, is there any way to only search for contacts if you for instance type "c" first (or any prefix). Like "c john smith" would give me the contact viewer with john smith, while just "john smith" would simply launch the browser/search engine?

(I don't want to enable "contacts" in default search results, because it would clog up the results, but I would also like the built-in contacts handlers).

Hi all, I am not a regular on forums like this, so apologies for if I'm posting in the wrong place. Or asking a stupid question. I was just wondering if there is an easy way to search files within a folder. So within Alfred I navigate towards a certain folder, and then I want to search for files within only that folder. Preferably with the "in" command as well. I know there are search filters, but these have to be set up for specific folders beforehand. I would like to just search in any folder I happen to navigate to. Isn't there like an "action" that says "search in this folder" or something? Thanks!