Confused on moving from applescript to action

Question

I hope I can describe this properly.
I'm building an Automator workflow that starts with a series of AppleScripts, performing various tasks on folders and files contained therein, and then finishes with several Automator Actions.
In an earlier version I used "Get Specified Finder Items" to select a folder, then a few other Actions followed. That worked fine. Now, I'd like to have that selected folder be what is known to AppleScript as the "temporary items" folder.
In AppleScript I can do this:
<pre style=" font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
set myTempFolder to "TheFilesAreHere"
set theTempFolder to folder myTempFolder of (path to temporary items)
</pre>
...but then I can't figure out how to get that along as my "specified finder item" to continue my Workflow.
I hope this makes sense... I suppose I can clarify if needed.
Thanks.

Answer 1

berghjon wrote:
heh... here is an interesting discovery... when you "return" a variable from AppleScript it only passes to THE NEXT ACTION... an early version of my workflow had a 3-second pause (this was necessary at the time... not anymore).
Now that the pause is removed, the "return" is behaving as expected.
Thanks for the help.
P.S., I don't fully understand POSIX path business, but there is apparently no functional difference between:
POSIX path of (theTempFolder as alias)
POSIX path of (theTempFolder as text)
POSIX path of (theTempFolder as alias) as text
should there be?
yes, "as text" at the end is unnecessary. this is passed as text anyway. I frankly don't understand why
POSIX path of (theTempFolder as text)
works. it seems to be able to convert the text version of the path to theTempFolder which is : delimited to the unix path version which is / delimited. You can ask in the apple script forum for an explanation. i don't really understand it.