Appending a value via automator to an existing property value

Question

My manager asked me an interesting question, he wanted to know if we can append a value via automator to an existing property value. I looked through the documentation and I think it cannot be done though this can be accomplished via a longer route, by saving the automator value in a new property and creating another new property that concatenates the existing property value and the automator value.
Any ideas if this can be achieved without creating 2 additional properties?
Scenario
Existing property has value ABCD.
Use an automator file to append another value(XYZ) to this existing property. After the auto update the exsiting property should look like this: ABCD-XYZ
Thank you
TD

Answer 1

It can be done but it is a multistep process. You need to:
1. Do an extract of the current nodes you want to have the value appended to into a delimited txt file.
2. Bring the file into EXCEL
3. change the values in EXCEL
4. create an automator file using the changeprop function and run the automator
When you do the extract, select the columns:
Version Name, Hierarchy Name, Node Name, Value you are extracting
As you can see this will prebuild a lot of the automator for you.......