Automator User Guide

• Welcome
• About Automator
• Create and edit workflows
  • Create a workflow
  • Create a workflow using selected files
  • Get information about actions
  • Copy actions
  • Use results from a previous action
  • Change the order of actions
  • Delete actions
  • Allow action options to be selected at runtime
  • Use Quick Action workflows
• Use workflows
  • Run a workflow
  • Expand or collapse actions in a workflow
  • Disable or enable actions in a workflow
  • View the results of an action
  • View events performed by a workflow
• Do more with Automator
  • About variables
  • Add variables to an action
  • Add variables to a workflow
  • Use the loop action to repeat parts of your workflow
  • If your workflow doesn’t work
  • View the values in variables
  • Import additional actions
• Use scripts with Automator
  • Use a shell script action in a workflow
  • Add AppleScript scripts to a workflow
  • Add JavaScript scripts to a workflow
  • Control Automator with scripts
  • Add an Automator workflow to the Script menu
• Keyboard shortcuts