Hotkey that "does the right thing" with selected text

[canadaduane]

I'm building a workflow that uses "double-shift" as a hotkey to do things with selected text. For example, at work I have two different ticket systems, one prefixes IDs with "CNVS" (e.g. CNVS-1234) and the other with "g/" (e.g. "g/54321"). I'd like to be able to highlight either of these, tap "double-shift" and have it send me in a browser to the correct ticketing system.

 

What's the best way to achieve this with workflows? Can I avoid making a script in this case?

 

Thanks,

Duane Johnson

[canadaduane]

What's the best way to achieve this with workflows? Can I avoid making a script in this case?

 

Just to be clear, I understand how to do this with ONE ticket prefix... it's a simple matter of connecting the Hotkey trigger to the Open URL action. What I'm trying to understand is how Alfred might be able to help me in pattern matching the prefixes so it can choose the correct Open URL action.

[canadaduane]

def notify(msg, title = "Tell Me More")
	begin
		require 'rubygems'
		require 'terminal-notifier'
		TerminalNotifier.notify msg, :title => title
	rescue
		`growlnotify -n "#{title}" -m "#{msg}"`
	end
end

url = case "{query}".strip
when /^CNVS-(\d+)$/ then
	"https://mycompany.atlassian.net/browse/CNVS-#{$1}"
when /^g\/(\d+)$/ then
	"https://gerrit.mycompany.com/#/c/#{$1}"
else
	notify "I can't tell you more about {query}"
end

`open "#{url}"`

# Log of IDs we've recently visited
`echo "#{url}" >> ~/.tellmemore`

 

 

For posterity, the above script accomplished my aims. In workflows, I connected "Hotkey" to "Run Script" and chose Ruby as the language. It uses an optional TerminalNotifier ruby gem [1], or if unavailable, tries to use growlnotify.

 

[1] https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier

[jdfwarrior]

Yeah Alfred itself doesn't do pattern matching. You would have to do as you say, you do the matching, build a URL then you could make the script return a URL and that pass to a "Open URL" action

[canadaduane]

 you could make the script return a URL and that pass to a "Open URL" action

 

I tried this, but it doesn't seem that I can connect the output of a "Run Script" to the input of an "Open URL" action?

 

Duane

[jdfwarrior]

Yeah my bad you're right, but depending on the script language and such you could probably do a system call to do: open "<url>" which would work