How to open Alfred with argument passed from external trigger?

[nikivi]

I want to make a workflow where I trigger an external trigger and pass in a path like ~/Users/nikivi/ in there.

 
However I can't seem to do that. Essentially I want something like this :

 

 

But instead of hotkey trigger, trigger it externally and pass in text to Alfred.

Edited October 5, 2017 by nikivi

[nikivi]

Never mind, this works : 

 

 

 

I thought I could do it from Alfred.

 

[nikivi]

Oh even better. I can just open Alfred and type ~

 

Forgot about that one.

[deanishe]

 

 

Have you ever actually read the sample AppleScript in an External Trigger?

tell application "Alfred 3" to run trigger "settings" in workflow "net.deanishe.alfred-appscripts" with argument "test"

with argument "test"

 

 

[nikivi]

That sample applescript doesn't matter for me though.

Because I call them with Applescript like this after :

tell application "Alfred 3" to run trigger "duckduckgo" in workflow "net.deanishe.alfred-searchio" with argument "ducks"
 

My question was whether I could pass this argument directly to Alfred.

Edited October 5, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

That is passing the argument directly to Alfred…

[nikivi]

Yeah but to a certain workflow.

Actually I am stupid. I remembered Alfred had this :

tell application "Alfred 3" to search "/Users/nikivi"

[nikivi]

In any way, I started a little wiki where I share things I learned. Both for myself and hopefully other people who are into asking silly questions.

[deanishe]

Right. Because you originally said External Trigger:

 

2 hours ago, nikivi said:

I want to make a workflow where I trigger an external trigger and pass in a path like ~/Users/nikivi/ in there.

 

 

As you noticed, entering ~ does the same thing. So your AppleScript should be: tell application "Alfred 3" to search "~".

 

It's more portable. Shouldn't hardcode paths without a very good reason.