4. Working with Actions

By now you should be comfortable creating basic workflows and getting around the main portions of Automator’s interface. There’s still a lot more of Automator to learn, though. To do anything truly useful, you need to add actions to your workflow, and you need to configure those actions to do what you want. This chapter helps you get to this next level by showing you how to:

Image Find an action that’s right for your workflow

Image Add actions to your workflow and understand warning messages that may be displayed

Configure an action’s ...

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