Date/time use within alfred workflow

[jaipal2004]

Hi,

 

got a workflow for the Drafts app that will append to a specific file identified by it's UUID. 

 

I want Alfred to prepend the date and time in long format before the text. I've tried to add the '{datetime:long} function into the box but it just prepends with the actual text '{datetime:long}'.

 

drafts5://append?uuid=0B597113-8B73-4AD1-80CC-2D1011FC50CA&text=- {datetime:long} {var:draft}

 

I've even created a variable with the value of {datetime:long} and go with the below but still it does nothing

 

drafts5://append?uuid=0B597113-8B73-4AD1-80CC-2D1011FC50CA&text=- {var:systemdatetimelong} {var:draft}

 

Can anybody help please?

 

thanks

[deanishe]

8 hours ago, jaipal2004 said:

I've tried to add the '{datetime:long} function into the box

 

Text macro expansion doesn't work in every "box". I can't say for sure because you haven't provided the workflow you're talking about, but you're almost certainly trying to use macros in an element that doesn't support them. Try using an Arg & Vars to set Argument.