Automating Creation of Folder-Tree

Question

Here is what I want to do: I want to automate the creation of a folder-tree for video projects from a template structure while adding the project name to the names of all the folders.
Anything that accomplishes this will suffice. I got hung up when I couldn't use a variable as the input for the "Find/Replace Text" action.
Anyone really nice and interested can go to the small website I've made and get the files to build this thing for me!
http://www.mattwarren.tv/Site/Automator_Help.html
I imagine this is very simple, I hope so. Please advise.
Thanks

Answer 1

What I had in mind was using the rename action on the copy of the template, although it won't go into subfolders. Since you haven't done anything yet, you might give my (tweaked) Copy Folder Structure action a try - it can be downloaded here. It can use variables, so an example workflow would be something like:
1) Ask for Text [Question: Project Name?, Default Answer: Blank Project]
2) Set Value of Variable [New Variable: Project Name]
3) New Folder [Name: the Project Name variable, Where: wherever]
4) Set Value of Variable [New Variable: Project Folder]
5) Get Specified Finder Items [the folder containing the project template] - ignore input
6) Copy Folder Structure [To: Project Folder, Add: the Project Name variable (and a separator, if desired) before each name]
7) Reveal Finder Items
Note that the editing field that accepts variables will trim leading and trailing whitespace characters - this is probably why a plain text field is used in the rename action. You can use other characters as a separator, though - the action UI gets ugly when trying to add various options for space separators, but there is a setting in the action package if you have to have them.