And now that app is being billed as the future of automation on the Mac, fully replacing the Automator app that inspired it. Workflow was bought by Apple in 2017 and was integrated into iOS 12 as an optional app called Shortcuts. The original Shortcuts began life as an iOS app called Workflow, which was a decidedly Automator-inspired way to automate tasks on iPhones and iPads.

There’s a snake-eating-its-tail vibe to Shortcuts for Mac.

(This, predictably, is called shortcuts.) They can be accessed in the Shortcuts app itself, via a menu bar icon, using the Quick Actions menu in the Finder, or using a new Shortcuts command line tool. Shortcuts can map out complex actions step by step and make them as simple as pressing a button, saving you time in the long run. You can bring up dialogs in Automator, save to a variable, bring up another, etc, but it's clunky.If Monterey has a single feature that’s big enough to qualify as a headliner, it’s support for the Shortcuts app. This was just an attempt to get you out of AS and back into Automator as quickly as possible. Your if statements may have to contain more to do, if installation is more than a list of paths to 'also include'. If theChoices contains 'Other' then set installItems to installItems & OtherPath If theChoices contains 'NGUI' then set installItems to installItems & NGUIPath If theChoices contains 'Vuforia' then set installItems to installItems & vuforiaPath Set theChoices to choose from list theOptions with prompt 'Select the options you'd like installed.' with multiple selections allowed You could also do the build in Applescript, which is the kind of what AS is designed for. I would add a 'Run Applescript' action, that asks which options you want and then builds the list of optional installs (assuming each option is a folder path), which you can then pass that list out of the action and back to the workflow, to copy each of those folders.

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