macOS Automator Question

[Reelknead1]

I hope this is in the correct section but I'm trying to create a workflow that will allow me to

-Launch Entourage 2008
-Click File
-Click Export
-etc
-etc
-Quit Entourage 2008

this is all done by recording my actions.

When I go to run it, It will launch Entourage but will fail after that. It seems as though automator is incapable of clicking file?

I have also tried using applescript and recording it that way but it doesn't want to record my actions?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[sammich]

Have a look at this page and see if you can implement what you want in Applescript. You can of course add AppleScript to your automator workflow to do the things that already work.

 

[Reelknead1]

I'm new at this so sorry if i'm asking simple questions.

when i put this in to script editor
tell application "Finder" to activate
menu_click({"microsoft entourage", "file", "export"})

I get the error message
«script» doesn’t understand the Menu_click message.

Any ideas?

 

[Caleb531]

For AppleScript, you can set it up like this:

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Finder"
			click menu item "New Finder Window" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

 

[Reelknead1]

For AppleScript, you can set it up like this:

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Finder"
			click menu item "New Finder Window" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

I can't get it to work so i'm trying something a little different maybe someone can help me with the new problem

I'm trying to make a script that will open finder then go users, my username, documents, microsoft user data, entourage identities, main identity, then copy Database file.

How can i do that?