Copy/Paste or Drag/Drop Search Results as List
I'm using FoxTrot to search PDF journal articles. I would like to drag+drop the search results as a text list rather than as the PDF files themselves. Can this be done? -- JJW
I am also trying to solve my problem using a Service created in Automator. The Service takes the selection and returns the list of file names. I cannot get the Service to appear using FoxTrot. It works at the Finder level. I can see other services that take files/folders as input (A Better Finder Rename or Compress with BetterZip). Why is FoxTrox "locked out" to accept Services that accept files/folders as input?
Re: Copy/Paste or Drag/Drop Search Results as List
Hello, FoxTrot is not specifically “locked out”, I would instead say that we probably have not specifically implemented support for Services on a selection from the list. But this is a good suggestion, and certainly the first time it has been made as far as I remember, so we have to make a note of it. Kind regards, jean michel/ctm qa > On Oct 10, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Weimer wrote: > > I am also trying to solve my problem using a Service created in Automator. The Service takes the selection and returns the list of file names. I cannot get the Service to appear using FoxTrot. It works at the Finder level. I can see other services that take files/folders as input (A Better Finder Rename or Compress with BetterZip). Why is FoxTrox "locked out" to accept Services that accept files/folders as input? > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foxtrot-search" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foxtrot-search+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ---
Thanks. I'd much appreciate this. Indeed, I must go so far as to ask that you provide Applescript support to get selected items as a list with properties {rank, name, excerpt, location, ...}. I am very interested to interface FoxTrot with other apps in order to collect snapshots of information rapidly. Right now, I am limited to a (painfully) slow, one-shot review of my database, with only static images of the content using screen captures as collection points. It feels as though I am doing my work using Windows XP. :-/ On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:26:45 PM UTC-4, foxtrot-search wrote: > > Hello, > > FoxTrot is not specifically “locked out”, I would instead say that we > probably have not specifically implemented support for Services on a > selection from the list. But this is a good suggestion, and certainly the > first time it has been made as far as I remember, so we have to make a note > of it. > > Kind regards, > > jean michel/ctm qa > >> On Oct 10, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Weimer > wrote: >> >> I am also trying to solve my problem using a Service created in > Automator. The Service takes the selection and returns the list of file > names. I cannot get the Service to appear using FoxTrot. It works at the > Finder level. I can see other services that take files/folders as input (A > Better Finder Rename or Compress with BetterZip). Why is FoxTrox "locked > out" to accept Services that accept files/folders as input? >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "foxtrot-search" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to foxtrot-searc...@googlegroups.com . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- ---