Load workspace, action, keyboard from another app?

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I’m wondering how people work with “modules” from other apps. For instance, I’d like to use shortcuts to open a particulr draft, with a workspace, and action group, and keyboard row pre loaded. I sort of wish these things were their own attributes on a url scheme, rather than separate commands that can’t be invoked at once.

Basically, I guess I see two options:

  • try to use x-success to load 4 url commands in succession for opening a draft, workspace, action group, and keyboard
  • create a script that opens all those and call the script with the run action url scheme.

What do others do here?

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Probably best to write an action that configured the environment the way you wanted, and call that with the “Run Drafts Action” shortcut step. Something like:

let ws = Workspace.find("My Workspace");
app.applyWorkspace(ws);

let group = ActionGroup.find("My Group");
app.loadActionGroup(group);

let keyboard = ActionGroup.find("My Keyboard");
app.loadKeyboardActionGroup(keyboard);

// anything else you might want to change, like:

// load first draft in the workspace...
let drafts = ws.query("inbox");
if (drafts.length > 0) {
    editor.load(drafts[0]);
}

// enter focus mode
editor.focusModeEnabled = true;
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Thanks Greg, that’s a good script. I like that bit about loading the first draft in the workspace.

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Hi @agiletortoise

I don’t have enough javascript knowledge to know if this is a typo in the script, a typo in documentation, or a bug in the app, but your script gives this error:

Script Error: TypeError: Workspace.query is not a function. (In 'Workspace.query("inbox")', 'Workspace.query' is undefined)
Line number: 13, Column 29
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Oops, edited the example. Should be ws.query.

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