Not directly an OmniFocus issue I guess, but I wonder if anyone can help.
I am trying to set up a way of opening my Quick Notes folder from within a task in OmniFocus as part of an evening review. I renamed the shortcut in case the space in the name was an issue, the shortcut runs fine from Shortcuts, but when I try to run the shortcut from the url in the OmniFocus task notes field I keep getting this error message.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Euan
You can open the Notes shortcut using the following URL.
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Notes
Though, it sounds like you want to run the shortcut. In that case, you would use this URL:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Notes
If you want to run a shortcut that contains characters that can’t be used within a URL (e.g. a space or square bracket), you can use URL encoding (aka percent-encoding).
For example, if you wanted to run a shortcut called “Open Important Notes,” you would substitute %20 for the spaces:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Important%20Notes
I hope this helps!
Excellent. Thanks, as ever, for taking the time to answer this, Tim. The example, on the Apple support page had square brackets. I thought I had tried without them, but obviously not.
Cheers
Euan.
You’re very welcome, @euan.
I think this is the Apple Support page you’re referring to:
The syntax Apple provides for running a shortcut using a URL scheme is:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[name]&input=[input]&text=[text]
In this case, [name], [input] and [text] are placeholders for the actual values. It’s important to replace the complete placeholder (e.g. “[name]” with “Notes”). In other words, the square brackets are part of the placeholder and are not intended to be included in the URL.
