I've seen a lot of questions about this on the interwebs but no answers. Is there a way to refer to an Automator 'variable' within AppleScript? I'd like to do some string manipulation as part of a workflow. I've worked around this by using Get Variable and passing them into temporary files, but it's kind of ugly.
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An AppleScript used in a workflow accepts two parameters: input, or the output of the previous workflow, and parameters, the options set in the workflow's UI (if applicable). If the string you are manipulating is part of the workflow's input, it will be in input.
More information is available here.
mipadi
2010-10-05 19:20:21
Thanks. Based on your reply, I tried dumping 'parameters' (with 'return parameters'), and it had interesting things in it, but did not contain the automator 'variable' I had set with 'Set Value of Variable'.
Steven R. Loomis
2010-10-05 20:35:44