Using Snippet Triggers in Snippets?

[JulianW]

Hi,

 

I'm new to Alfred, but currently grasping the possibilities of this fantastic tool.

After setting up some snippets for recurring email exchanges I encounter at work, I learned about Snippet Triggers and got myself the "Getting Started" workflow to understand them.

 

There is this \\greetmsg one that changes the greeting according to the time of day.

I would love to use that (and similar ones) in my snippets I have set up for email exchanges, but can't find a way to get it to work.

When pasting the \\greetmsg through a snippet, it does not execute unfortunately.

 

Any way to make this happen? I feel like I'm missing something.

I would love to go haywire with text templates if this sort of nesting is possible!

 

Im running Alfred 4.1 (Beta)

 

Cheers

 

[deanishe]

11 hours ago, JulianW said:

I feel like I'm missing something.

 

Sounds like it. You can’t trigger a snippet by putting its keyword in another snippet. You have to actually type the keyword to trigger a snippet.

 

Alfred 4.1 (currently in pre-release) allows you to embed snippets in other snippets (using the {snippet:...} macro—you still can’t just write the other snippet’s keyword), but it doesn’t include Snippet Triggers. That’s not really feasible, as a Snippet Trigger might do anything.

 

You can do it the other way around, however, and use the {snippet:..} macro in a workflow triggered by a Snippet Trigger.

[JulianW]

12 hours ago, deanishe said:

You can do it the other way around, however, and use the {snippet:..} macro in a workflow triggered by a Snippet Trigger.

 

Thank you for this input, how can I "chain" those workflows together though?

Let's say I want to set up a Snippet Trigger \\emailanswer and want to use \\greetmsg and \\hellomsg and \\thanksmsg throughout the snippet text?

 

How would I do that?

[deanishe]

You set up your Snippet Trigger and script to generate whatever text, then in the Copy to Clipboard action it's connected to, you compose your snippet, e.g.:

 

{query}


{snippet:\hellomsg}


{snippet:\thanksmsg}

 

({query} is the output of the previous action.)

 

 

[JulianW]

Appreciate you trying to help me!

 

Maybe I explained my idea not well enough, because your solution does not seem to address it.

I'll try again

 

I think I understand the thing with the {snippet: } macro, but this can only call snippets (the ones set up under "Features" -> "Snippets"), not Snippet Triggers (set up under "Workflows"), right?

 

I'm trying to call/integrate other Snippet Triggers within a Snippet Trigger.

Currently I'm just playing around with the "Getting Started" material for Snippet Triggers, that comes with Alfred.

 

There is no way of getting the following to work?

 

//greetmsg, //hellomsg

This is text from the email template blabla.

Best regards,

//thanksmsg

 

I understand, that the Snippet Triggers won't execute from pasting them, but can a workflow be set up in such a way, that it pastes a text that contains multiple queries it collected before?

 

Tried something like this, though this does not work so far for multiple reasons 😅

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

[deanishe]

14 minutes ago, JulianW said:

I understand, that the Snippet Triggers won't execute from pasting them, but can a workflow be set up in such a way, that it pastes a text that contains multiple queries it collected before?

Yes, but you’d have to combine all the text-generating elements in one workflow, collect their output as variables, and then combine them in an Arg and Vars element or Copy to Clipboard Action using {var:...} macros.

[JulianW]

1 hour ago, deanishe said:

Yes, but you’d have to combine all the text-generating elements in one workflow, collect their output as variables, and then combine them in an Arg and Vars element or Copy to Clipboard Action using {var:...} macros.

 

That sounds exactly like what I want to achieve.

 

Thank you!

 

I'll go ahead and learn about working with variables in Alfred.