Automator Actions For Mac Office 2016

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Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features: Excel 2016. PowerPoint 2016. Shared Office features. Simply add the appropriate run script action to your workflow and enter your script code or shell commands. How to use AppleScript scripts To explore the Automator User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

Introduced in macOS 8.5 (way back before MacOS X and the new macOS series) the Folder Actions automation architecture has delivered the functionality of automatically processing items added to designated Finder folders. This unique macOS feature is integrated into Automator as a workflow template:

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• Automator for Mac OSX is a scripting solution that lets you create simple actions, then bundle them into workflows to automate repetitive tasks. Perhaps the best part is that once you've got a.
• I've installed Microsoft Office 2016 - twice - Yet Automator actions don't seem to be getting installed. Is there anyway to download this separately? Or does anybody know what happened to them? I can't find anything on google regarding missing actions for office 2016. Any help would be appreciated.
• There are four places actions can reside on your Mac: Apps - Often, an app that supports Automator contains embedded actions. When Automator launches, it scans the apps on your Mac, loads their.

1 The Folder Action workflow window. Folder Actions are saved as workflow files, instead of applets, and are executed by the system 'FolderActionsDispatcher' background process.

2 Since a Folder Action is 'attached' to a folder in the Finder, its input is files and/or folders added to the target folder.

3 The 'attached folder' is selected from the popup menu, which summons a file/folder chooser dialog.

4 The workflow assembly pane where the workflow is assembled by adding actions from the Automator Library in the sequence in which they are to be exectued.

Example: Auto-Photos Import via AirPort

Here's an example of combining the use of an Automator Folder Action workflow with an AppleScript 'Watcher' applet to create an autonomous AirDrop image repository whose content is added to by others through a non-attended import process triggered when users AirDrop images to the unmanned host computer.

The Folder Action

The first step is to create an Automator Folder Action workflow that will import the images placed into an 'attached folder' in the Finder, into the Photos application.

DOWNLOAD the completed Folder Action workflow file.

1 The Folder Action workflow window. Folder Actions are saved as workflow files, instead of applets, and are executed by the system 'FolderActionsDispatcher' background process.

2 The 'attached folder' is the set to be the user's Downloads folder in the Home directory.

3 The Pause action is added to give the items added to the attached folder, enough time to complete the copy process before beginning their processing by the other actions in the workflow. The delay value is indicated in seconds. Set this value to a higher value if the added files are larger and copied over a network or by AirDrop. Files added locally on the computer, require little or no delay.

4 The Filter Finder Items action is used to ensure that only image files are passed to the next action for import into Photos. NOTE: since Photos can store multiple media types, such as videos and images, you can adjust the filtering parameters of this action to reflect the type of import data you want the workflow to support.

5 Since Automator's built-in Import Files into Photos action remains broken in the latest version of macOS, a Run AppleScript action is used instead, containing a simple AppleScript script (see below) that imports the passed image files into the top-level of the Photos library.

6 Since Photos stores a copy on imported data, the Move Finder Items to Trash action is used to remove the original image files from the Downloads folder, and place them into the trash.

To save and install the Folder Actions workflow, type Command-S (⌘S) or choose 'Save…' from the File menu in Automator. Enter a name for the workflow in the forthcoming naming sheet. Click the sheet's 'Save' button and the workflow will be installed in the following directory and the Folder Actions server will be activated.

Home > Library > Workflows > Applications > Folder Actions

To edit the workflow file, choose Open… from the File menu in Automator to summon a file chooser dialog:

1 The file chooser dialog.

2 Press the Options button to toggle the display of the Type popup menu 3

3 Select 'Folder Action' from the workflow Type popup menu to reveal the contents of the system Folder Actions folder 4 in the dialog.

4 The Folder Actions folder within the system Workflows folder.

5 Select the workflow in the Folder Actions folder.

6 Press the Open button to edit the workflow in Automator.

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Now that you've created and installed the Folder Action, test it by dragging an image file into the Downloads folder. Starting with macOS Mojave, workflows containing Apple Event scripts (AppleScript/JavaScript) must receive a security approval by the user the first time the hosting workflow is executed. This approval is only required once and there will be no security prompt for subsequent runs of the Folder Action workflow.

In this example, the script is executed by the FolderActionsDispatcher background system application, which will be reflected in the security approval dialog that appears after you've triggered the execution of the workflow by adding an image file to the 'attached' Downloads folder:

Once approved by the user, the FolderActionsDispatcher application will be added to the Automation access list in the Privacy & Security system preference pane:

NOTE: if you later edit the Folder Action workflow, you may be prompted again for a security approval. See the section on Automation Security for more information.

I take a lot of screenshots. Taking them is an easy thing to do but, if you do a lot of them, processing screenshots can become a time consuming process. For me it usually involves at least this many steps:

1. Take the screenshot (on a Mac pressing ⌘-shift-4 and dragging the crosshairs over your target will do the trick).
2. Rename the file to something that makes sense (otherwise it'll be named something like Screen Shot 2016-10-29 at 8.11.27 AM.png)
3. Find the new image file on the desktop and double click it to open in the Preview app.
4. Use Preview to resize the picture then save the file. On my website I display product images in a way that requires them to be no larger than 150px wide. However, I've been thinking a lot about retina screens lately and I've been starting to collect versions of my images that are twice as large too.
5. Upload to my server using my FTP client (I use Transmit). This involves navigating about 6 layers deep into my file system.
6. The point of these screenshots is to display them on my Web site, so the last step is to enter the image name into my database. So, I either have to retype the name I chose for this image or copy and paste it.

Every step is simple. However, when you find yourself repeating a multistep task like this it's time to consider some sort of automation.

The Mac has some great tools for automation. For the super nerdy, bash scripts on the command line, python or ruby scripts (or even php or javascript for that matter) can work wonders. There's also AppleScript, which is supposed to be a layperson's scripting language but, despite all my programming experience, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

There's even some absolutely fantastic third party apps like Hazel and Keyboard Maestro. However, a lot of workflow problems like this one can be solved by the simplest automation solution, Automator.

Automator makes automation easy by letting you drag steps into your workflow. These steps are chained together, so each one takes an input (which can be a file, text, or something else) and outputs an, er, an output. Oftentimes this output is the same thing that was input, sometimes it's something different that was created by the step.

Note: To quickly find these actions start typing their names into the search box at the top of the screen. Make sure Library is highlighted in the left column, otherwise you will only be searching a smaller subcategory and you might not find what you're looking for.

So, this is the workflow that I ended up with.

The first step is to take the screenshot. I want this to be interactive so that I'll be able to select the exact part of the screen that I want for my screenshot. The other option is to save it to the clipboard or to a location. I first made a folder on my desktop called eyedock lens image and put an image inside of it named new screenshot.png, then I chose the Other option in the Save To: dropdown and navigated to this image.

One thing that I wanted to point out on here is that the steps you drag into automator are usually chained together, meaning that the output of one step is, by default, the input for the next step. This is indicated be the circle in the image above.

However, sometimes we want to break this chain. This is true here. My second step is to ask for some text that will be a name for this picture, which is a step that does not need an image to be passed into it. So, when I added this step I right-clicked on it and chose the Ignore Input option. As you can see (where I put the red 'X' above) there is no visible connection between the steps.

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Asking for text will pot up a little dialog box that will ask for some text. I want this to be mandatory so I checked the Require an answer checkbox.

The output of this step is going to be the text that the user types in, and this will become the input for the next step, which is Set value of Variable. I named my variable Name, so now this variable it will equal whatever text the user entered in the above step.

After setting my variable, I chose the Copy to Clipboard step. This will put the name of my image file on the clipboard so I can just paste it where I want it. This may not be an important step for everyone but it's a helpful one for me.

The next step is Get the specified finder items. This is going to retrieve the screenshot image file that we took in step one. Because this does not require the text from the above steps I once again chose the 'Ignore Input' option - we are starting a new chain here. On the Get the specified finder items step I simply clicked the 'add' button and navigated to the location of my image file. The output of this step will be the image file, which we're going to pass on to the next step,

Rename Findere Items: Name Single Item. I'm going to rename the full name of the file, so I selected this option and then I used the variable NameI from our second step and appended the text '_original.png'. So, if the user enters the text 'myPicture' in step 2 then the file will now be named 'myPicture_original.png'.

After renaming the file I'm going to set another variable that refers to this file. It's always best to make variable names that make sense, so I called this variable Original Image.

Then, I duplicate the file. The output from this step will be the duplicated file (not the original), so my next step, Rename Finder Items, will rename this file (otherwise it well be called myPicture_original copy.png). I'm ultimately going to make two copies of this image and this one is going to be twice as big, so I will rename this one with the variable name + '@2x.png'. In our example it will be myPicture@2x.png. Lastly, I set this to another variable and, trying to keep things organized, I call it 2xImage.

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I'm thinking, at this point, that these steps aren't requiring as much explanation. The '2x' file is duplicated, renamed (this time it will simply be myPicture.png), and stored to another variable (1xImage). In the next step we finally scale the image. For my Web site I place images in a position where I want them to be no larger than 150px, so I select the appropriate options to give that result. This scaling will be done in a way that respects the proportions of the image - it won't turn your image into a 150px x 150px square, it'll just make sure it's not larger than 150px in either dimension.

We created a 2x image, but we haven't scaled it to our desired size yet. So, we're going to get that image and do that now. This is why we assigned a variable to that image earlier - it makes it really easy to retrieve and perform more actions on it. So, our next step is to Get the value of variable '2xImage'. Note that I once again selected the 'ignore input' option so this step wasn't chained to the ones above it.

Then, we scale the image - I wanted this to be twice as big so I selected 300px this time.

Now, all the images I wanted have been created - the original, the 1x, and the 2x. The last step is to upload them. Unfortunately Automator doesn't have any built in steps to upload files, but any good third party app should provide Automator actions. As I mentioned above I use Transmit and it provides exactly what I need for this step.

So, the next step is to drag in the Upload step and configure it with your server credentials.

To save and install the Folder Actions workflow, type Command-S (⌘S) or choose 'Save…' from the File menu in Automator. Enter a name for the workflow in the forthcoming naming sheet. Click the sheet's 'Save' button and the workflow will be installed in the following directory and the Folder Actions server will be activated.

Home > Library > Workflows > Applications > Folder Actions

To edit the workflow file, choose Open… from the File menu in Automator to summon a file chooser dialog:

1 The file chooser dialog.

2 Press the Options button to toggle the display of the Type popup menu 3

3 Select 'Folder Action' from the workflow Type popup menu to reveal the contents of the system Folder Actions folder 4 in the dialog.

4 The Folder Actions folder within the system Workflows folder.

5 Select the workflow in the Folder Actions folder.

6 Press the Open button to edit the workflow in Automator.

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Now that you've created and installed the Folder Action, test it by dragging an image file into the Downloads folder. Starting with macOS Mojave, workflows containing Apple Event scripts (AppleScript/JavaScript) must receive a security approval by the user the first time the hosting workflow is executed. This approval is only required once and there will be no security prompt for subsequent runs of the Folder Action workflow.

In this example, the script is executed by the FolderActionsDispatcher background system application, which will be reflected in the security approval dialog that appears after you've triggered the execution of the workflow by adding an image file to the 'attached' Downloads folder:

Once approved by the user, the FolderActionsDispatcher application will be added to the Automation access list in the Privacy & Security system preference pane:

NOTE: if you later edit the Folder Action workflow, you may be prompted again for a security approval. See the section on Automation Security for more information.

I take a lot of screenshots. Taking them is an easy thing to do but, if you do a lot of them, processing screenshots can become a time consuming process. For me it usually involves at least this many steps:

1. Take the screenshot (on a Mac pressing ⌘-shift-4 and dragging the crosshairs over your target will do the trick).
2. Rename the file to something that makes sense (otherwise it'll be named something like Screen Shot 2016-10-29 at 8.11.27 AM.png)
3. Find the new image file on the desktop and double click it to open in the Preview app.
4. Use Preview to resize the picture then save the file. On my website I display product images in a way that requires them to be no larger than 150px wide. However, I've been thinking a lot about retina screens lately and I've been starting to collect versions of my images that are twice as large too.
5. Upload to my server using my FTP client (I use Transmit). This involves navigating about 6 layers deep into my file system.
6. The point of these screenshots is to display them on my Web site, so the last step is to enter the image name into my database. So, I either have to retype the name I chose for this image or copy and paste it.

Every step is simple. However, when you find yourself repeating a multistep task like this it's time to consider some sort of automation.

The Mac has some great tools for automation. For the super nerdy, bash scripts on the command line, python or ruby scripts (or even php or javascript for that matter) can work wonders. There's also AppleScript, which is supposed to be a layperson's scripting language but, despite all my programming experience, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

There's even some absolutely fantastic third party apps like Hazel and Keyboard Maestro. However, a lot of workflow problems like this one can be solved by the simplest automation solution, Automator.

Automator makes automation easy by letting you drag steps into your workflow. These steps are chained together, so each one takes an input (which can be a file, text, or something else) and outputs an, er, an output. Oftentimes this output is the same thing that was input, sometimes it's something different that was created by the step.

Note: To quickly find these actions start typing their names into the search box at the top of the screen. Make sure Library is highlighted in the left column, otherwise you will only be searching a smaller subcategory and you might not find what you're looking for.

So, this is the workflow that I ended up with.

The first step is to take the screenshot. I want this to be interactive so that I'll be able to select the exact part of the screen that I want for my screenshot. The other option is to save it to the clipboard or to a location. I first made a folder on my desktop called eyedock lens image and put an image inside of it named new screenshot.png, then I chose the Other option in the Save To: dropdown and navigated to this image.

One thing that I wanted to point out on here is that the steps you drag into automator are usually chained together, meaning that the output of one step is, by default, the input for the next step. This is indicated be the circle in the image above.

However, sometimes we want to break this chain. This is true here. My second step is to ask for some text that will be a name for this picture, which is a step that does not need an image to be passed into it. So, when I added this step I right-clicked on it and chose the Ignore Input option. As you can see (where I put the red 'X' above) there is no visible connection between the steps.

Later, the product name was changed to '3ds max' (all lower case) to better comply with the naming conventions of Discreet, a Montreal-based software company which Autodesk had purchased.When it was re-released (release 7), the product was again branded with the Autodesk logo, and the short name was again changed to '3ds Max' (upper and lower case), while the formal product name became the current 'Autodesk 3ds Max'. 3ds max. Further information:Many films have made use of 3ds Max, or previous versions of the program under previous names, in CGI animation, such as and, which contain computer generated graphics from 3ds Max alongside live-action acting.

Asking for text will pot up a little dialog box that will ask for some text. I want this to be mandatory so I checked the Require an answer checkbox.

The output of this step is going to be the text that the user types in, and this will become the input for the next step, which is Set value of Variable. I named my variable Name, so now this variable it will equal whatever text the user entered in the above step.

After setting my variable, I chose the Copy to Clipboard step. This will put the name of my image file on the clipboard so I can just paste it where I want it. This may not be an important step for everyone but it's a helpful one for me.

The next step is Get the specified finder items. This is going to retrieve the screenshot image file that we took in step one. Because this does not require the text from the above steps I once again chose the 'Ignore Input' option - we are starting a new chain here. On the Get the specified finder items step I simply clicked the 'add' button and navigated to the location of my image file. The output of this step will be the image file, which we're going to pass on to the next step,

Rename Findere Items: Name Single Item. I'm going to rename the full name of the file, so I selected this option and then I used the variable NameI from our second step and appended the text '_original.png'. So, if the user enters the text 'myPicture' in step 2 then the file will now be named 'myPicture_original.png'.

After renaming the file I'm going to set another variable that refers to this file. It's always best to make variable names that make sense, so I called this variable Original Image.

Then, I duplicate the file. The output from this step will be the duplicated file (not the original), so my next step, Rename Finder Items, will rename this file (otherwise it well be called myPicture_original copy.png). I'm ultimately going to make two copies of this image and this one is going to be twice as big, so I will rename this one with the variable name + '@2x.png'. In our example it will be myPicture@2x.png. Lastly, I set this to another variable and, trying to keep things organized, I call it 2xImage.

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I'm thinking, at this point, that these steps aren't requiring as much explanation. The '2x' file is duplicated, renamed (this time it will simply be myPicture.png), and stored to another variable (1xImage). In the next step we finally scale the image. For my Web site I place images in a position where I want them to be no larger than 150px, so I select the appropriate options to give that result. This scaling will be done in a way that respects the proportions of the image - it won't turn your image into a 150px x 150px square, it'll just make sure it's not larger than 150px in either dimension.

We created a 2x image, but we haven't scaled it to our desired size yet. So, we're going to get that image and do that now. This is why we assigned a variable to that image earlier - it makes it really easy to retrieve and perform more actions on it. So, our next step is to Get the value of variable '2xImage'. Note that I once again selected the 'ignore input' option so this step wasn't chained to the ones above it.

Then, we scale the image - I wanted this to be twice as big so I selected 300px this time.

Now, all the images I wanted have been created - the original, the 1x, and the 2x. The last step is to upload them. Unfortunately Automator doesn't have any built in steps to upload files, but any good third party app should provide Automator actions. As I mentioned above I use Transmit and it provides exactly what I need for this step.

So, the next step is to drag in the Upload step and configure it with your server credentials.

After I've uploaded the 2x image, I get the 1x image (via the 1xImage variable) and upload that one too.

And that's it!

Now save the app and name it whatever you want - choose something that make sense, like screenshot uploader. You can activate it like you would any other app (by double clicking it). However, if our goal is to increase efficiency, I'd use an app launcher like Spotlight (hit ⌘-space and start typing screenshot uploader, or whatever you named it). I'd also recommend giving your app a custom icon to make it more recognizable (otherwise all your Automator apps will look the same!).

Here it is in action:

Wrap-up

There's about a 97.6% chance that you don't need the exact same thing that I need here. Hopefully you'll find this helpful, though, and take this and customize it for your own needs. Automator is obviously highly customizable, and there's no right or wrong way to solve a problem. In fact, as I typed this up I thought of a couple ways this workflow could be changed to work more efficiently. This is one more way that Automator is like 'real' programming: Job one is making something that works, jobs 2 through 99 are refining what you've done - if you're so inclined! Just don't go overboard - it's easy to do, as this xkcd comic sums this up perfectly!

There is one issue I don't like about this workflow. It isn't very smart. If an image is smaller than 300px, or 150px, it will still try to create images in those sizes. As a consequence a 100px image will be blown up to 150px and 300px and, when you're blowing up images like this, they'll be blurry. This is an issue that could be addressed by writing a script (Applescript or otherwise), but this is beyond the scope of this today's blog post.

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One other thing to consider - this script keeps three images on your hard drive (the original, the 1x and the 2x). You may or may not want this. If not, consider customizing it yourself by adding some actions to delete the files after the upload.