Creating & Bootstrapping a new Folder.

Question

At our design firm, we use an inhouse naming convention for organizing jobs. jobs are found in Clients/ClientName/CN100/ CN being short for the Client's name and the job number). We make these folders a lot, and have to add the required subfolders by hand (Clients/ClientName/CN100/_concepts, _images, _print, etc.) and I was trying to set up an automator action to ask the user which client folder to create the job folder in, ask for the job number, and then create a job folder with the number with the subfolders already in place. Workflow would look like this:
Choose a Client's Folder
Ask for the Job Number
Create a folder named the Job Number provided
Create subfolder in that job folder for:
_concepts, _print, _PDFs, _previousVersions, _images
I can kind of do it with therecord feature, but it's kind of slow. The "Ask for Finder Items" doesn't give me a vriable to work with as a path for new folders.... any thoughts?

Answer 1

this is very easy to do with a "run apple script action" but you can actually do it without any apple script using just automator variables.
it should go something like this:
1. get selected finder items (or ask for finder items). this will choose a client's folder.
2. set value of variable "client's folder" (add a variable to the workflow for that)
3. make new folder. (control-click on it and select "ignore input"). In this action click on options and check the box "show this action when the flow runs".
For the location where to make this folder drag the variable you've just made. when the flow runs it will give you a popup to enter the name of the folder to be created. enter the job's number.
4. set value of variable "job folder" ( make another variable for that) and it will be set to the output of the previous action.
5. make new folder (again check the box to ignore input). for the location put the variable "job folder" and for name "_concepts".
6,7,8 make new folder actions for trhe other subfolders of the "job folder".