Can Automator start an action at a specified time?

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#1

I’m new to Automator/Applescript so may be asking a dumb question but…gotta ask anyway :slight_smile: I’m looking for an action that will help automator start a specific workflow on a regular daily schedule, i.e., every weekday at 12:00 I would like to automatically start a workflow. Can’t find any way to do this…Is there a way that can be done using an action? Any other way?
Thanks

#2

It may be too late to reply here, but you can use iCal to accomplish this. Make a new event and as the “alarm,” set it to run a program, in which case would be your workflow, or whatever.

#3

Is there any way to hide an alarm that is triggering a script on a daily basis?

Thanks

Mike Van Meter

Model: IMac
AppleScript: 2.0.1
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Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#4

A more sophisticated way is to use a launchd agent.
Look at this

#5

It worked great. It says it is for Tiger, but it does work on latest release of leopard. Thanks again. This will help tremendously.

Regards,

Mike Van Meter

#6

I already answered this in Code Xchange: launchd works in Tiger and later