Get Value of kMDItemDisplayName

[c-c-c-c]

Hi There,

 

Is there a way to get expose the value of `kMDItemDisplayName` in a workflow?

 

I have a file filter from which I'm trying to extract the value of `kMDItemDisplayName` so I can output a markdown link on the pasteboard.

 

It's exposed in the title field of the results, but there doesn't seem to be a programmatic way to access it? I looked through the Automation Tasks and couldn't find anything. Also looked through the documentation under dynamic placeholders (would be great if file metadata could be exposed this way). I can't use `{query} ` as it returns a path and the filename is a uuid.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

[Stephen_C]

Does the Automation Task Get Path Basename Without Extension not do what you want?

 

Stephen

[c-c-c-c]

no, the filename is a uuid, and didn’t see an automation task that returns a metadata field

[c-c-c-c]

Figured this out using mdls:

 

mdls -raw -name kMDItemDisplayName $itempath

# where item path is an alfred variable that outputs a path from a file filter

 

I'm using it in a workflow related to Devonthink to act on recent documents added to my database: