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I’ve got something working, but it’s wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped.

I’ve had to run AppleScript in my action to get it to work on all files on my Mac - with openURL it only seemed to work for files in the Drafts folder. The action below uses the /Documents/ folder on iCloud Drive as the root.

In the syntax definition file, I’ve added a definition:

"f": "drafts://runAction?action=OpenFile&text=[[value]]"

And then I created an script action, called OpenFile:


var file_name = draft.content // Get file name from action
var system = device.systemName; // Check device - will be macOS or iOS

if (system == "macOS"){
	let method = "execute";
	let script = `on execute(file_name)
		tell application "Finder" to open (POSIX path of (path to home folder)) & "Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/" & file_name as POSIX file
		end execute`;
	let runner = AppleScript.create(script);
	runner.execute(method, [file_name])
		}
else {
	url = "shareddocuments://private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/" + file_name
	app.openURL(url, false)
	}

I’ve not tested extensively but a link in the form:

[[f:my file.ext]]

will open the same file on either iPhone or Mac.

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