I need help with automator work flows

im having troube adding songs to my itunes with autmator i ke getting error mesaage 1752 ...anyine know how i can resolve this issue ?

viguy_ wrote:
i was told the error means that the process is taking too long to finish so it just times out
That would have been handy to know, earlier.
I have know idea if this will work, but you might try editing the timeout of the action.
If you right-click on the Action, you can choose "show in Finder"
Make a copy of the action in your home somewhere. Right-click on that copy and select Show package contents.
Go into the contents folder and open the info.plist file with a text editor like TextWrangler. Change the timeout value to something greater than the default of 3600 seconds. Is it really taking longer than an hour? If it is not, then I doubt this will work.
Save the file, and then Import it into Automator (File menu).

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Need help with home work see what you got

1. The MEMBERS table has the phone number broken into three fields:
   CountryCode - e,g., '1' for the United States
   AreaCode - e.g., three digits for the United States
   Phone - e.g., 7 digits, with or without a dash between the first three digits (Exchange) and last four digits (Line)
   Any or all of the fields may be missing (null) or blank or contain only spaces.
   Write a T-SQL statement to concatenate the three fields into a complete phone number
   with the format: CountryCode(AreaCode)Exchange-Line, e.g., 1(816)123-4567
   If no Phone is present, return a blank string.
   If no area code is present, return only the Phone number. Do not return an empty pair of parentheses or the CountryCode.
2. The PERSON_CAMPAIGN table contains a row for each war/conflict the member served in. A member may have served in multiple conflicts
   For this purpose, each row contains:
   PersonID - unique member identifier
   Campaign - name of war/conflict
   Write a T-SQL statement to return one row per member with all campaigns concatenated into a single field and separated by commas
   E.g., PersonID    Campaigns
         12345678    Global War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan
3. The MEMBER_STATISTICS table contains one row per post.
   For this purpose, each row contains the post's:
   Division - a way of grouping posts by their member size
   Department - the state in which the post is located
   PostNumber - unique post identifier
   Reinstated - count of members whose annual subscription had lapsed for at least two years but who have now subscribed for the current year
   Write a T-SQL statement to determine the top ten posts in each division based on the number of reinstated members, with a minimum of 50 reinstated members.
   Rank them by highest to lowest reinstated count.
   Return their Division, Rank, Department, PostNumber, Reinstated

I got 3 home work questions think i have the first two need help with the last one please.
Kinda stuck on #3 hard I can see data not sure witch to sum or count?
1. The MEMBERS table has the phone number broken into three fields:
CountryCode - e,g., '1' for the United States
AreaCode - e.g., three digits for the United States
Phone - e.g., 7 digits, with or without a dash between the first three digits (Exchange) and last four digits (Line)
Any or all of the fields may be missing (null) or blank or contain only spaces.
Write a T-SQL statement to concatenate the three fields into a complete phone number
with the format: CountryCode(AreaCode)Exchange-Line, e.g., 1(816)123-4567
If no Phone is present, return a blank string.
If no area code is present, return only the Phone number. Do not return an empty pair of parentheses or the CountryCode.
ANSWER******************
Notes: created a funtion to format the phone
Then used the this function in a select to concatenate Phone
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.FORMATPHONE (@CountryCode int, @AreCode int, @Phone VARCHAR(14))
RETURNS VARCHAR(14)
AS BEGIN
DECLARE @ReturnPhone VARCHAR(14)
DECLARE @NewPhone VARCHAR(14)
-- Note case sets newphone to null if phone null or '' also to see if phone has '-' in it if not inserts into newphone
case
when @Phone is null or @Phone = ''
Then SET @NewPhone = Null
when @Phone = substring(@Phone,4,1)='-'
Then SET @NewPhone = @Phone
else
SET @NewPhone = substring(@Phone,1,3)+'-'+ substring(@Phone,4,4)
End
case
when @NewPhone is null then SET @ReturnPhone = @NewPhone
elese case
when @AreCode is null or @AreCode = '' then SET @ReturnPhone = @NewPhone
else
SET @ReturnPhone = @CountryCode + '(' + @AreCode + ')' + @NewPhone
END
END
RETURN @ReturnPhone
END
select dbo.FORMATPHONE(CountryCode,AreCode,Phone)
from MEMBERS
2. The PERSON_CAMPAIGN table contains a row for each war/conflict the member served in. A member may have served in multiple conflicts
For this purpose, each row contains:
PersonID - unique member identifier
Campaign - name of war/conflict
Write a T-SQL statement to return one row per member with all campaigns concatenated into a single field and separated by commas
E.g., PersonID Campaigns
12345678 Global War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan
ANSWER******************
SELECT PersonID,
STUFF(( SELECT ',' + Campaign AS [text()]
FROM PERSON_CAMPAIGN
WHERE (PersonID = Results.ID)
FOR XML PATH('')
), 1, 1, '' )
AS Campaigns
FROM PERSON_CAMPAIGN Results
3. The MEMBER_STATISTICS table contains one row per post.
For this purpose, each row contains the post's:
Division - a way of grouping posts by their member size
Department - the state in which the post is located
PostNumber - unique post identifier
Reinstated - count of members whose annual subscription had lapsed for at least two years but who have now subscribed for the current year
Write a T-SQL statement to determine the top ten posts in each division based on the number of reinstated members, with a minimum of 50 reinstated members.
Rank them by highest to lowest reinstated count.
Return their Division, Rank, Department, PostNumber, Reinstated

Need help with automating text import/pasting/macro between Photoshop and Excel

Hey everyone,
I'm working on a large project now that seems extremely daunting, but I was hoping there would be some way to automate it using either Actions or some sort of macro program. Here's the gist:
I've created a template with 24 differently sized text boxes in the photoshop image file. Each text feild has unique text that needs to be be pasted into it, which has been compiled in excel. This wouldn't be too dificult to do, except I have to recreate this image and all 24 text fields aproximately 350 times. None of the text boxes will remain static through all 350 images as text is the title, description, and demographic ratings/percentages/data for the topic of each image. I did something similar manually last year and it took me about 3, non-stop 18 hour days to complete it.
(the test template)
Can anyone think of any way I could automate this process? I'm thinking some sort of macro that copies cell 1 in excel, switches to photoshop, opens layer 1, pastes, switches back to excel, goes to cell 2, copies, back to photoshop, layer 2, pastes, etc, etc, then does a 'save as' in photoshop and revets to PS layer 1, EX cell 1 (on tab 2) to start the process all over again. I have no idea if this would work or if there is another way to do this but I would really appreciate any help or advice you guys could give. I don't have really any expreience using PS Actions or macro programs/scripts, so I may be over my head or overlooking a really simple way to do this. If there's a way to do it, I'm persistent enough to figure it out and get it working. Doesn't really matter how it gets done, I just need to fill those text boxes as best as I can and as quickly as I can.
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Have you read up on the Variables support in Photoshop?

Need help with Automating Printer and LPR installation

I work for someone who has a need for automating the print installation of LPR print port to mac laptops. Obviously this will need to cover anything OS X 10.3 and above. All of this needs to be done command line via a batch file of sorts.
I am a windows and Linux guy, however I just bought a Mac and starting to like the new Leopard OS and the capabilities of boot camp.
What I need:
1) how to install LPR port to the laptop
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HTH
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Needed help with Automator - System Prefs

Hi,
I'm hoping to make an automator workflow that changes some system preferences that I have to change frequently in switching between a work computer and media center.
When it's used as a media center it's setup with a lower resolution to match the TV and the energy settings and screensaver are set to never be used when in media center mode.
Is there a way to use automator or even apple script to change the resolution, energy, and screensaver settings back to my normal settings?
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Need help with Automator code.

So I am trying to make the toggle hidden files Service and I pretty much have it but there is one thing that annoys me. So the code so far is:
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open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
And it did nothing. Not even opening a window at default location. So if anyone out there knows how to solve all three of these problems or ven just one your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you shortly.

Do this:
killall Finder
Add a pause. I found 3 seconds seems to be good. 2 seconds might work.
open .
Kills Finder and then reopens. If you don't include the pause it doesn't work.
The trick is to figure out how to set your current directory as a variable and then kill Finder, and then reopen it, using the variable as your path so it will reopen to the directory you were previously in. If you figure that out let me know.

Need help with not working timer Hp Display Assistant

Hello i got monitor LA 2306v and when i want use "timer" option in Hp Display Assistant it doesn't work "sheduler" options fork perfect but "timer" one at all :/ Using Windows Vista home premium and got newest version of Hp Display Assistant.
ill be rly grateful for help thanks

The following was taken from here.
HP Display Assistant is a Windows-based software utility designed for select HP displays that support
the Display Data Channel/Command Interface (DDC/CI) communications channel defined by the Video
Electronics Standards Association (VESA). HP Display Assistant does not function on non-HP displays
(including non-HP displays that support DDC/CI), and does not function on HP displays that do not
support DDC/CI. For a list of leading graphics cards that support HP Display Assistant:
1. Open HP Display Assistant.
2. Click the Options tab.
3. Click the Help button.
4. Click the Tech. Support button to open the HP Display Assistant online support Web page.
5. Click the Compatibility link on the Web page.
Is the computer's video card on the supported/compatible list? If the video card does not support the feature, then the program won't work.
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Also, report what graphics card the system is using.
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I purchased Adobe Acrobat x Pro recently and installed it, I have compatibility issues vision 2013. The adobe pdf converter plug in stays inactive despite all my efforts to activate it, I need help with this? How can i get the plug in to work with Visio

I purchased Adobe Acrobat x Pro recently and installed it, I have compatibility issues vision 2013. The adobe pdf converter plug in stays inactive despite all my efforts to activate it, I need help with this? How can i get the plug in to work with Visio 2013?

For MS Visio (any version) only the appropriate version of Acrobat *PRO* provides PDFMaker for Visio.
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Be well...

I need help with a PDF file that is an image, the "Read Out Loud' option does not work, please help!

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I need help with fp, i cannot get it to work. have tried everything

i cannot get fp to work. I have uninstalled and installed so many times. I use IE9....it worked two months ago.

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> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:17:21 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I need help with fp, i cannot get it to work. have tried everything
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HT5622 I need help with my MasterCard it won't work

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Need help with a terminal command

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Will this frequent "purge" command harm anything in the long run?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
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Need help with CS4 transitions

Hi,
I am trying to use a cross dissolve transition. To make it simple, I have two clips. I'm obviously doing something wrong here. I've watched the Adobe TV tutorial and all the guy does is to select cross dissolve from the effects box, and drags it over to the clip on the timeline. I think I am doing the exact same thing, but when I play my clip back, I can see no transition effect played back.
Maybe I'm putting it in the wrong place I thought, so I tried putting it in front of the split between the two clips. Then again at the beginning of the second clip. Neither of them worked, so I shut CS4 down, and booted it up again. I started a new project, and put two new clips in it. I put the dissolve transition at the beginning of the second clip, and it worked like a charm. Then to see if that was a fluke, went to a point about 3 minutes earlier in the timeline. So now I am on clip one. I go and make a cut in the timeline, and try to place another Cross dissolve at this spot. It appears to place the transition there because it creates the rectangular box, and it has the name cross dissolve in that rectangular box,but when I try to play it to see the transition, it isn't working. Go back to the beginning of the second clip, and that one still works perfectly.
I noticed that there is a difference in the appearance of the two cross dissolve rectangular boxes. The one that works has a single diagonal line that goes from lower left to upper right in the cross dissolve box, and then there are a whole series of diagonal lines that go from upper left to lower right all across the cross dissolve box . It looks like a whole bunch of dark gray and white backslashes. In the one that doesn't work, there is just that single diagonal line that goes from lower left to upper right. No backslashes on this one. What am I doing right in the first one, but not in the second?
I find that it will work perfectly if I put in a new clip. If I put in the Cross Dissolve at the beginning of a new clip that I add to the timelime, it will work perfectly. It is only when I try to split a clip that is already on the timeline, and then put the cross dissolve in at that point.
Perhaps it is not possible to do what I am attempting to do. Maybe you can't split a clip and place the transition at that point?

When I am shooting video, it is not unusual for me to be taping a scene of a mountain, for example, and then put the camera on pause, while I briefly position myself to take video of the river that is flowing at my feet. That is what is happened on this clip that I am attempting to put the transition in between. Rather than having the scene just instantly change at this point, from the mountain to the river, it would be nice to have a smoother transition then that.
My mind was working on the problem while sleeping last night, and I think I might understand how to handle it. It might have been too simple for me to think about yesterday. I haven't tried it yet, but would it not work, to insert the mountain scene from my source monitor into the timeline, and then go back and insert the river scene into the time line instead of inserting both of them at the same time. Would these not now be two separate clips on the timeline, and the transition could now be applied?
Your analogy with the DJ is very good, but it isn't quite the same. You are correct in that he would be only fading from one song to the same spot on the same song. In my case I am going from an image of a mountain to an image of a river. Same clip, but different images. I appreciate the help, and your thoughts.
Terry Lee Martin
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:15:55 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need help with CS4 transitions
From a creative standpoiint, I don't understand the desire to transition from one clip to the exact same spot on that same clip. That's like a DJ at a night club fading from one song to the exact same spot on that same song being played on a second CD player. What's the point?
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Automator work flow and iTunes

I want to creat a automator work flow to start itune at a specified time daily and ply the songs in the specified playlist for an hour and then stop.
In the automator actions I found "Find iTunes Playlist" and Start iTunes Playing". But the other bits to do the full sequence that I need are missing.
Please help me how to go about it.
Thanks
Badrakumar

Hi,
Here's one way.
In Automator, create a Calendar Alarm. This will have two actions from the Music library.
The first will be "Get Specified iTunes items". Click the Add... button in the action pane and specify your playlist.
The second action will be "Play iTunes playlist". You don't need to modify this, just make sure it's second in the workflow.
Save and close this Calendar Alarm, calling it something like "Play my Playlist". Calendar will activate and will create a new calendar called "Automator" if it doesn't already exist.
In Calendar, schedule this Alarm for every day at waking-up time.
Go back to Automator and create a second Calendar Alarm. This will have a single action, "Run AppleScript" from the Utilities library. Delete all the text in the action ("On run... yadda yadda... End run"). Type in a single line:
tell application "iTunes" to quit
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Hope this helps,
H

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