Workflow should open multiple Filemaker files

[esceef]

I created a workflow to open 3 files (Filemaker files).

All files are password protected. Normally I start one file, put in a password and it opens.

The Alfred workflow ends with the first file :-(.

This is the same for a keyword and a shortcut workflow.

 

How can I get, what I want ?

 

[jdfwarrior]

I created a workflow to open 3 files (Filemaker files).

All files are password protected. Normally I start one file, put in a password and it opens.

The Alfred workflow ends with the first file :-(.

This is the same for a keyword and a shortcut workflow.

 

How can I get, what I want ?

 

Are you just just passing all 3 files at once for Filemaker to open? If so, perhaps you should make it loop through all files and open each one individually to see if it would prompt for the password for them that way

[esceef]

How can I "make it loop through all files and open each one individually“ ?

[rice.shawn]

Link a keyword to a script action as "bash"

 

the script should be:

open "/full/path/to/file/1.filemakersextension"

open "/full/path/to/file/2.filemakersextension"

open "/full/path/to/file/3.filemakersextension"

 

If that moves too quickly, then you could try:

open "/full/path/to/file/1.filemakersextension"

wait

open "/full/path/to/file/2.filemakersextension"

open "/full/path/to/file/3.filemakersextension"

 

If it is still too fast to open the third, then put in another "wait":

open "/full/path/to/file/1.filemakersextension"

wait

open "/full/path/to/file/2.filemakersextension"

wait

open "/full/path/to/file/3.filemakersextension"

[esceef]

hmm, no tip works the way I want. Only the first file will be opened.

But: as I used three times the same keyword (after I had put in 2 passwords for the first, and second file) the files will be opened one after the other .

Using Log "All Information" for selected [Run Script] object in this workflow at the end the debug window shows:

[iNFO: alfred.workflow.action.script] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.output.notification' with arg ''

[iNFO: alfred.workflow.action.script] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.output.notification' with arg ''

[iNFO: alfred.workflow.action.script] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.output.notification' with arg ''

 

This left e big ? for me.

Any parameters I had to activate or deactivate ?

Any number to the "wait" parameter to let the script be active ?

[rice.shawn]

There are a few other hacky things to try. One would be to make a single keyword and have it point to three script actions that will open a file, one for each. That might make it work correctly. Otherwise, you might try your hand at an Applescript that would tell finder to open the three files. The latter one might have more luck.

 

Unfortunately, I don't use filemaker and don't have encrypted documents to test this sort of thing on, so I'm probably not much more help.

[esceef]

I made a test with three password-protected pdf-files.

This works better. All three files were opened and waited at the end of the workflow for password input.

It seems that Filemaker stops opening the second file as the first waits for a password entry.

[esceef]

Hm, almost 2 years later and still no good solution with Alfred 2 ?

[deanishe]

That's because the problem isn't with Alfred, it's with Filemaker.

Alfred simply tells OS X to open the file(s) using the standard API. OS X then tells the relevant application to open the file(s).

Any issue you're having is with that application, not OS X and not Alfred.

The best you can do with Alfred is to try and work around the problem with Filemaker. If that doesn't work, it's still Filemaker causing the problem.