automator e-mail notification

Paul,

I have never used the "new email" action, but it may take any inputs from the previous action and use them as attachments.

Look in the upper right of the action for a disclosure triangle labeled "Files/Folders". If you change that to "Ignore results" you may get a new email message with no attachments.

nathan

Paul,

There's another approach you might consider. Instead of saving the workflow as a plug-in, save it as an application. Name it "Folder Update," for example. Use the same two actions you've been using, New Mail Message and Send Outgoing Messages.

Attach a folder action to the desired folder using AppleScript. Copy the code below and paste it into your AppleScript Script Editor:

*on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items*
*tell application "Folder Update" to launch*
*end adding folder items to*

Save the script as a script to your Home/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts folder. Right-click or control-click on the desired folder, enable folder actions and then attach the newly saved script.

When an item is added to the folder the AppleScript will run, and your mail message will be sent, without regard to what has been added to the folder -- the script doesn't look at the contents of the folder other than to determine that something has been added. Good luck!

Andrew99

Paul,

You're welcome. Thanks for posting back.

Andrew99