1) You can use several
Get Value of Variable actions to build a list to pass to your script or use the
osascript shell script to get variables via AppleScript - for example:
osascript -e 'tell application "Automator" to return value of variable "New Storage" of front workflow'
2) The following
Run AppleScript action will get the Spotlight comments from Finder Items, for example from a
Get Finder Items action:
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on run {input, parameters}
(*
get Spotlight comments from Finder items
input: a list of Finder items (aliases)
output: a list of Spotlight comments
*)
set output to {}
repeat with AnItem in the input -- step through each item in the input
tell application "Finder" to set the end of the output to comment of (AnItem as alias)
end repeat
return the output -- pass the result(s) to the next action
end run
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