Alfred 3.1 : new features / improvements questions

[MEs]

Hi,

 

New user to Alfred and still in the learning process here.

 

MAIL

I noticed on of he General Improvements of the 3.1 update was :

Add updated email attachment support for Airmail 3

 

With Alfred 3, I was able to achieve this by creating a file filter search and also added the folder containing the attachements from Airmail. (Thanks to deanishe)

 

But in fact, I didn't see any difference with 3.1... See what did change ?

 

And generally speaking, can Alfred search mails (not attachements, the actual email recipients, subject, content) from Mail.app ? I am doing it through a workflow so far but I am not sure this is the proper way to do it. I understood this was not possible for Airmail since they use a non standard way to store emails.

 

EXTERNAL TRIGGER and DISPATCH KEY COMBO

Is there any example of workflow using those new features ? Just to grasp the potential here.

 

Sorry to mix 2 subjects, but since both are about the latest release, I thought it may be a topic for other customers trying this latest release.

 

Regards

[deanishe]

Add updated email attachment support for Airmail 3

 

But in fact, I didn't see any difference with 3.1... See what did change ?

That refers to Alfred's support for sending files as attachments with Airmail 3, not searching Airmail 3's data.

[rounak]

 

EXTERNAL TRIGGER and DISPATCH KEY COMBO

Is there any example of workflow using those new features ? Just to grasp the potential here.

 

 

Regards

External Trigger example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/48g1at1sefzwcz3/Running_modified_rounak.alfredworkflow?dl=0

 

Initially, this workflow was 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yr6yqj984t2iyzc/Running.alfredworkflow?dl=0

Install it. Quit a couple of apps with option+return key. And then try the one above.

 

Disclosure: I am a newbie too.

Edited September 6, 2016 by rounak

[Vero]

EXTERNAL TRIGGER and DISPATCH KEY COMBO

Is there any example of workflow using those new features ? Just to grasp the potential here.

 

 

You can take a look at an External Trigger example workflow within Alfred itself.

 

In the workflows preferences, click the [+] button at the bottom of the sidebar, choose Getting Started > Call External Trigger. The workflow is documented to help you understand what each stream of the workflow is doing

 

Cheers,

Vero

[MEs]

That refers to Alfred's support for sending files as attachments with Airmail 3, not searching Airmail 3's data.

 

In case Airmail 3 is the default client, to use it with the file action "Email" ? Okay this makes sense. So I will continue tu use my file filter

 

 

External Trigger example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/48g1at1sefzwcz3/Running_modified_rounak.alfredworkflow?dl=0

 

Initially, this workflow was 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yr6yqj984t2iyzc/Running.alfredworkflow?dl=0

Install it. Quit a couple of apps with option+return key. And then try the one above.

 

Disclosure: I am a newbie too.

 

 

Thank you for those examples.

So if I guet it correctly, with external trigger, you may have a workflow that is able to cal by itself another workflow ? Juste like yours can loop on itself to after quitting an app ?

 

 

You can take a look at an External Trigger example workflow within Alfred itself.

 

In the workflows preferences, click the [+] button at the bottom of the sidebar, choose Getting Started > Call External Trigger. The workflow is documented to help you understand what each stream of the workflow is doing

 

Cheers,

Vero

 

 

Thank you, I did find them. Not very easy to understand to be honest. Will see if I have any use case in which this may be helpful or if someone post some workflow that may inspire me

[rounak]

 

 

Thank you for those examples.

So if I guet it correctly, with external trigger, you may have a workflow that is able to cal by itself another workflow ? Juste like yours can loop on itself to after quitting an app ?

 

yes, correct

[jeffsui]

I actually just wrote a medium article that discuses external triggers.  My use case was having a task that displays cache results.  Then it runs a background process and if that detects an update is needed to the data, it will use a series of external triggers to cause the alfred to hide and then reload the search results.

 

You can read here if you like: 

 

https://medium.com/@Jeef/alfred-today-my-experience-writing-a-plugin-80cbd0fea9c1#.ynbhwyur1

[deanishe]

Very cool article. A great example of what can be done with a few Python libraries and a liberal sprinkling of skill.

 

Seeing how you pull the login credentials from their usual place makes me realise that Alfred-Workflow should probably be able to access other types of credentials, rather than requiring users to duplicate them or workflow developers to re-implement AW's Keychain feature…

 

May I ask what the attraction of Medium is? I've never really understood why people post their stuff there.

 

I also noticed a typo in the article: In the "Connecting to Exchange" section, you have "compnay", not "company".

[jeffsui]

Honestly I don't love medium but it's a good place to "get information out there" and hope that somebody can find it useful. I hate the code formatting on it - thats probably my biggest complaint.  

 

It would be nice for the workflow package to allow for both system and custom keychain support.  

[MEs]

HI,

 

Thanks for the medium article. It's kind of way above my level in any programming language but still interesting to read.

 

Will try your workflow by the way !