How to make a universal action that asks for extra input

[erusev]

I made a workflow that lets me publish the selected text as a GitHub gist.

 

Here's how it works:

 

I select the text I want to publish, I open Universal Actions, and I select Publish as Gist (my workflow).

 

Now I'd like to add an extra step that asks for the name of the new gist. I imagine something similar to the built-in Email to... action which asks for the email of the recipient (see attached screenshot).

 

Is this possible?

 

Edited July 20 by erusev

[vitor]

Use an Argument and Variables Utility to store the output of the Universal Action to a variable, then use a Keyword Input to ask for more information (leave the Keyword itself empty). You can again save the output of that to another variable, or use it directly.

[erusev]

Worked 😊 Thanks for taking the time respond!

 

Any tips on how to pass the 2 variables to an external script?

 

I see how I can concatenate the 2 strings into a single string and pass that, but I'd like to pass them as 2 separate arguments (`$1` and `$2`).

[andy4222]

4 hours ago, erusev said:

Any tips on how to pass the 2 variables to an external script?

 

You can use Run Script and call your script like this:

 

/usr/local/bin/node transformer.js "$operation" "$capturedString" "$userInput" "$userInputSeparator"

 

Here, all these args are values that are set using Args utility. In your script, depending on the language, you can fetch these args.  

 

 

I think that is a useful workflow. Would be nice if you can share it with the community

Edited Saturday at 06:43 PM by andy4222