Woolamaloo Automator Actions 1.3 now ready for download

Question

The Woolamaloo Automator Action set, version 1.3 is ready for download. You can find the actions here:
http://itunes.uic.edu/automator/Woolamaloo%20Automator%20Actions.dmg.zip
There are now eleven actions in the Woolamaloo set:
Upload Items to iTunes U
Get Daily Report Logs from iTunes U
Get iTunes U XML
Find Courses in iTunes U XML
Find Groups in iTunes U XML
Find Tracks in iTunes U XML
Find RSS Feeds in iTunes U XML
Delete Courses in iTunes U
Delete Groups in iTunes U
Delete Tracks in iTunes U
Merge Track Data into iTunes U
I have made a mighty effort to fix every user interface bug I could find in the actions ... and I've made a number of tweaks I hope people will find useful (case insensitive searches, you can only specify log data searches for the appropriate days).
In addition to a manual:
http://itunes.uic.edu/automator/Woolamaloo%20Automator%20Actions%20Manual.pdf
I've also includes a set of sample workflows that show how every action can be used. You can easily modify the workflows, or add to them, to suit your needs.

Answer 1

Hi, just a quick message about Woolamaloo for Windows and a big shout-out to Stephen Landau at CUNY for discovering the issue I'm about to describe.
Woolamaloo for Windows uses a well-established .NET method whenever it attempts to open an iTunes U URL. Essentially, Woolamaloo asks your default web browser to open an iTunes U URL (it actually does pretty much the same thing on a Mac, just in a Cocoa way) ... but for this to work, Windows has to "trust" Woolamaloo. This is not a problem when you launch Woolamaloo on a local drive ... but it can be a problem when launching Woolamaloo on a network drive. Some sites restrict what an application hosted on a network drive can do (one app opening a URL in another might look "suspicious").
So if you find Woolamaloo throws what appears to be a "security exception", check where you're running it from. If you're running Woolamaloo from a network drive, try running it from a local drive, if your site allows it, and see if the exception goes away. If not, lemme know. For my part, I will fix Woolamaloo to do something nicer than bail with an exception.