Using tags or comments in search scope?

[giovanni]

Hi,

 

Apologies in advance if this is obvious, but I was wondering if search scope can be determined by a folder having a tag or a specific spotlight comment.

 

For example: search for file names in all folders with a specific tag. The closest I could find is dynamic file search (which is awesome!) but still the search scope is defined by a folder name, not attribute. Perhaps I can try to edit that? 

 

Thanks!!

Giovanni

Edited July 8, 2016 by giovanni

[deanishe]

I think you'd have to add a Run Script in your workflow that finds the tagged folder and set that as a variable to use in a dynamic file search.
 
For example, this shell command will print the path of the first folder it finds tagged "unwatched": 

mdfind 'kMDItemContentType == "public.folder" && kMDItemUserTags =="unwatched"' | head -n 1

Put that in a Run Script followed by an Args and Vars or JSON Utility to configure the dynamic search.