Double trouble with a single action macro!

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Hello,

The following single action macro simply opens a Bear Note using the note's UUID.

I managed the feat of having 2 problems with a single action macro.

I want to modify it so that:

1- the URL opens the clipboard to which I will have copied the note's UUID beforehand.
It works fine when the URL contains the note's UUID as in
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=BDD09C0A-F79C-4303-81C8-4D7E10D6F918-3517-000109BE3DEDC795

But my 2 attempts at running the macro with the clipboard (which contains the note's UUID) have failed including
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=%Variable%SystemClipboard% and
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=%SystemClipboard%

2- I would like the macro output (last action) to be copying any one of the 4 listed macro URLs to the clipboard. I have no clue how to approach this.

thanks very much

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2

can you share your macro

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I apologize. I should have done it in the first place.

test open Bear Note.kmmacros (3.1 KB)

Note that to open a Bear Note, Process has to be set to nothing

Thank you for your reply

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Why is that? The problem with that setting in the gear menu is that %Variable%SystemClipboard% will not be replaced with its contents, the note’s UUID. And so there no way it will work as you want it to.

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Additionally, to debug, add a Display Text action with the same string you have in the Open URL action.

I.e.:
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=%SystemClipboard%
Or
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=%Variable%VarName% to see if the string is being correctly combined and the variables and clipboard have been processed.

As for question #2, not sure how to do automatically, only manually (do the same as you did with the Bear x-callback, combine the strings manually, and copy-paste the UUID of the macro).

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@tiffle @hello

thank you both for your replies

For some unknown reason, process text normally also works (did not work a year ago) when I enter the URL with the full ID

example: the following works with process text normally and process nothing
Please note the black text of Open URL

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The following does not work neither process text normally or process nothing
Note the orange font of Open URL indicating that the open URL action does not accept a variable (as far as I understand).

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we are dealing with 2 UUIDs: the Bear Note and the macro

I found the solution to extract the UUID of the macro Edit → copy as → copy UUID

thanks again

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@tiffle @hello

Everything now works fine with process text normally and the variables. thank you both very much for taking the time to help me !

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You were right, so thanks very much !

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If you’ve got it all working now that’s great to hear @ronald !!

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