System Wide Automator Action

How do i get a automater installed system Wide. So every user on the machine can use it with the contextueel menu.
I tryd creating /Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/ but actions placed here are not shown in menu.

Hi there,
I see what you mean...
There's no way of doing it automatically, that I know of.
But if you want you can just ignore 'Library' and create new Folders in the left hand pane...name them as you want you can even drag folders into folders...
Then once you have made your new structure you will have to drag the photos from the library to the relevant folder...
This will then create a new album in the folder that you wanted...
regards
Ric

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Automated Action Summary
Name:
Critical Events Email
Devices:
State:
Enabled
Parameters:
TO=[email protected], SUB=LMS4 Syslog AA, TEXT=
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Email
Messages:
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%ASA-session-4-106023
%ASA-auth-3-109023
%ASA-auth-6-109001
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I do not know what exactly you have done so far but in your situation I would enable the following debugs:
open that file in a text editor
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Prime 4.1 Automated Action To Email

i have setup a syslog automated action
Automated Action Summary
Name:
config
Devices:
172.24.1.2
State:
Enabled
Parameters:
TO=[email protected], SUB=Config Exit, TEXT=A config exit event
Action Type:
Email
Messages:
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It'll be helpful if you share what you see, based on which we can suggest what may be missing.
For easy reference just check the LMS guide once to see you followed the right steps :
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