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Example Workflows Please note that, since the example workflows were put together on Ben Waldie's computer, certain action settings involving file and/or folder paths may need to be reconfigured to function on your specific machine. eBook: Page 70 or Printed: Page 71 Between the time that this book was written and when Automator was released, Apple changed the name of the "Add Date and Time to Finder Item Names" action to "Rename Finder Items". Therefore, any references in the book refer to this action as "Add Date and Time to Finder Items". The image below is an updated screen shot of the "Rename Finder Items" action in Automator.
eBook: Pages 75-77 or Printed: Pages 76-78 The "Email Photo Contact Sheet" example workflow in this chapter was developed prior to the final release of Automator. In constructing this workflow, the "New Mail Message" action did not automatically insert attachments into the newly created email message. However, with the final release of Automator, this action was updated to automatically insert a passed file as an attachment. Because of this, several steps included in the example workflow are no longer necessary. These steps include locating the file to attach to the message, and adding the attachment using the "Add Attachments to Front Message" action. Because of this, these steps may be left out of the workflow, if desired. Alternatively, you may choose to select "Ignore Results from Previous Action" from the input popup menu at the top of the "New Mail Message" action, by clicking on the "Image Files" input text. This will cause the action to ignore the file path from the previous action, and all steps included in the example workflow will function as explained. eBook: Page 169 or Printed: Page 176 The last paragraph on this page begins with "Optionally, you may send an ignoresInput message to the previous action in the workflow, which is passed as the anAction parameter...". This should read "Optionally, you may send an ignoresInput message to the instance of your action, which is passed as the anAction parameter." eBook: Page 212 or Printed: Page 220 Since the "Add Date and Time to Finder Item Names" action has been renamed to "Rename Finder Items", this action is incorrectly listed in the index. |
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