Comments on: Schedule Workflows via iCal

By: Morgan Daly

Morgan Daly — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:24:21 +0000

Um yeah, as you can see, I forgot what the original post was about here. Stupid.

By: Morgan Daly

Morgan Daly — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:56:31 +0000

OK, so I can't get things to work as perfectly as I would like, but I am learning a lot along the way. If you want to save a workflow as a plugin, you can choose to save it as an iCal alarm. Wicked. Maybe you guys could do a special post on peoples iCal alarm workflow ideas?

This would be perfect. Set an iCal alarm that when it went off it would grab the emails from a specified AddressBook group, add those to the bcc field of a new message, show me the message, so I can check it before sending it. The grab emails from group and add to bcc field is the bit I can't work out.

Thanks

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:14:26 +0000

Great tip. Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much for sharing it.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:43:59 +0000

Using the group mailer action, it will mail to whatever Address book group you specify…how dynamic that group is depends on your editing of it.

By: Morgan Daly

Morgan Daly — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:38:26 +0000

Maybe someone here can help me, before I write Automator off.

This is what I want to do:

Set an alarm in iCal that opens up and runs a Work Flow. The iCal event would be a recurring weekly meeting.

I want the work flow to send an email to a group with a set subject and content. But I want the group to update dynamically.

So when the events alarm goes off, the workflow is executed and an email is sent to all the recipients in the group. individually using group mailer would be great.

Can I do this?

If not, wasn't automator designed for this?

Thank You in advance if you try to help me with this. A direct email to morgs1 (at) mac dot com would be greart.

Ta, Morgs