I upgraded to Keyboard Maestro 8 and my Mac to High Sierra and now my previous macros for File maker Pro no longer work and I need them to work for my business. Please help me!
Hi! Can you post some more details? Can you post the macros that broke? What did they used to do, and where are they breaking now? etc.
All the macros are like this. It creates a pdf of a letter in Filemaker Pro, Puts it in an email, puts the persons email address in the proper place, pastes a line in the subject field then more in the body of the email and then moves the curser up to put the person's name after Dear.
I figured out the problem. The print dialog box for the mac software has changed. You used to be able to identify the print pdf to email using Control, shift, command, x. In the new version there is no option for that and the command appears two lines further down in the menu. Any ideas to work around that?
I donāt have FileMaker Pro, and I also donāt see a āPrint PDF to Emailā option in the print dialog for other standard Mac apps on my own Mac running High Sierra; only ones for āSave as PDFā and āSend in Mailā. Could you provide a screenshot of what the print dialog looks like in FileMaker Pro on your system?
It would also help if you could post a full macro, rather than just a partial screenshot. If youāre not sure how to do so, you can find instructions here, in the āHow to Post/Upload Your Macro to the Forumā section: https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/Forum
One more question for now: are you using Mail.app to send these emails, or a different email program like Spark or Airmail?
These are the screen shots of the two different print menus. The second one is from the new High Sierra the other from my laptop which thankfully, I didn't upgrade.
So the problem isnāt with Maestro itās with the new configuration of the print menu with the Mac. I canāt figure out how to get around it and I need to.
Okay, I think this should get you started:
Select Option in Print Dialog.kmactions (4.3 KB)
Try replacing the first three actions of your macros with these, make sure the number of repeats lines up with the circumstances described in the comment, and see if this doesnāt work any better.
Thanks, Iāll try it in the morning when I have time to mess with it. Iāll let you know how it goes.
Jeff
If āSend in Mailā does the same as the old āMail PDFā, you probably can just adjust your System Preferences, Keyboard preferences, Shortcut preferences, App Shortcuts preferences, All Applications.
My guess is you already have an entry in there mapping Mail PDF to Command-Control-Shift-X, and you just need to change the title of the menu in the settings from Mail PDF to Send in Mail.
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Instead of worrying about whether it will take 4 or 5 shift-Tabs, I think you can just use a āPress Buttonā action with PDF as the label.
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Huh, so you can. I didnāt think that dropdown menus like that were considered to be buttons, so I didnāt think that was even an option, but Iām happy to be proven wrong. Thanks for the tip!
Iāve also confirmed that Peterās suggestion of setting (or re-setting, in this case) a custom keyboard shortcut to that option in System Preferences works to restore the original shortcut-cased method as well, so @Laughmaster should now have multiple robust options available to get his macros working again.
After all Iāve learned from your many posts, Iām glad I was able to provide a smidgen of a tip that you find helpful.
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You guys are over my head on your advice. Iāve never done anything like that before. Is this something I do in KM or in the actual Mac system?
I checked and I donāt have any entries in there mapping Mail PDF. Is this something I need to do? If so, how?
Thanks,
Jeff
This is what my keyboard Shortcuts looks like:
Here's how to restore the shortcut so that your macros continue to work as-is. In that keyboard shortcuts area of System Preferences, click the Plus button to add a new shortcut, type "Send in Mail" for the shortcut name, and press āā§āX. It should look like this:
To ensure that it's working, open a print dialog in any app and make sure that the shortcut is listed there:
Once this shortcut is restored, all of your macros that use it in the way shown in your sample screenshots should continue to work like they did before.
You are Awesome Gabe! That did the trick.
Thanks!
Glad your problem is solved.
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Thanks.