Workflow Actions – Reference

The following reference contains descriptions of what each of the available workflow actions does and information about their input, output, and parameters.

Special

• Conditional Block (If...Then...)
• Custom Action (Advanced)
• Custom UI
• Generate Text
• Repeat Block...
• Run Python Script
• Set Variable
• Stop
• Sub-Workflow

Editor – Documents

• Create Document
• Get Bookmark URL
• Get Document Name
• Get Document Text
• Get File Contents
• Open Document
• Set File Contents

Editor – Selection

• Extend Selection
• Get Selected Text
• Search in Editor
• Move Caret
• Replace Selected Text
• Select Closest Word
• Select Range

Editor – Folding

• Fold Lines Containing...
• Fold Text
• Unfold All Text

Sharing

• Compose Email
• Compose Text Message
• Compose Tweet
• Share Text or URL

Dialogs & Output

• Console Output
• Request Text Input
• Select from List
• Show Alert
• Show Dictionary Definition
• Show HTML
• Show HUD Alert

Text Filters

• Change Case
• Count
• Escape for Regular Expression
• Extract URLs
• Extract Range
• Expand Snippet
• Filter Lines
• Find / Replace
• Find
• Prefix / Suffix Lines
• Remove Duplicate Lines
• Remove Whitespace
• Sort Lines
• URL Escape

Document Conversion

• HTML to PDF
• Convert Markdown to HTML
• Convert Multi-Markdown to HTML

Utilities

• Get Clipboard
• Math
• Play Sound Effect
• Print...
• Set Clipboard

Web Browser

• Evaluate JavaScript
• Open URL
• Open x-callback URL
• Search Web

UI

Note

These actions are only available within custom UIs.

• Set UI Control Value
• Evaluate JavaScript (WebView)
• Dismiss UI