I’ve only just started, and plan to make a podcast soon. In the meantime: 1. Launch it and hit cmd-n to make a new file. Choose the template you want (I am working with a Workflow for now) and hit enter. 2. Stop interacting a few times so you can get an overall sense of the layout. Find the toolbar and start there. 3. After the toolbar are two checkboxes, one for the actions you can drop into your workflow, the other for variables you may use. Leave Actions checked for now. After those is a search box to find a certain action. 4. After a vertical splitter is your workflow. Interact with it and you can vo-arrow between all the actions you’ve added so far. Interact with each to adjust settings or options on that action. 5. After the workflow is something called “actions descriptions split view split group”, which holds all the actions. Interact with it and you’ll find an “actions library split view split group”, inside which are two tables. Choose the category of the action you want from the first table, library actions, and then the action you want from the second table, called actions. To add an action, move to it and press enter. If you move out of that second split group, then vo-right, you will come to a scroll area if the selected action has a description. Inside that scroll area is text explaining what the action does, as well as a table of inputs and outputs, again only if the action defines them. 6. After that group are a few buttons that don’t seem to do anything as far as I can tell, and that’s all there is to it.
As I said, I’m still exploring and getting used to this, but that is what I have so far after a couple hours of playing with Automator. My impression is that it is much easier to work with in mavericks, but I could be wrong about that as I only used it once in Mountain Lion. On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > Morning, all, > > Just took a look at Automator for the first time, and find it a bit > perplexing. Does anyone know if there are any podcasts out there on working > with automator? > TIA, > Donna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
