Using Variables to Open Finder Item

Question

I have created a workflow that right now goes through the following actions:
1. Get Specified Finder Items
2. Open Finder Items (using TextEdit)
3. Watch Me Do (To Select All..Copy...Close Text Edit...Click in text input field of Safari...Paste)
What I would like to do is use some variables to determine what TextEdit File is opened. For example, I would have a text file named "Friday-FileA.rtf" and would like to have the workflow use the variable to determine what Weekday it is and open the appropriate file.
I am new to Automator and have no knowledge of AppleScript but am pretty competent with my mac. Please let me know if this is something that can be done rather easily.
Thanks in advance
Nick

Answer 1

say you have a file "friday-13.txt" on your desktop.
You can modify your workflow by changing the first action "get specified finder items" to:
1. get value of variable "current weekday".
2. run apple script action:
<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">
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
set wday to file (input & "-13.txt" as text) of (path to desktop)
end tell
return wday
end run</pre>
You can modify that as needed.