wow, Alex, for having just started out, you've got a good handle on this. thanks for sending such a detailed explanation, I can definitely run with this. Cheers, Donna On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <doniado...@me.com> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
