How to Save a Selection of Variables Like Presets

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Hey Jay,

You'll have to provide a more complete picture of your workflow to get realistic help.

If you haven't read this it's worth a couple of minutes of your time.

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Getting variable names and values is easily done with AppleScript.

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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2019/01/11 14:23
# dMod: 2019/01/11 14:23 
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro
# Task: Extract Keyboard Maestro Variable Name and Value for Variable Names with a Prefix.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Keyboard_Maestro_Engine, @Extract, @Variable, @Names, @Values, @Prefix
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# Extract variable names and variable values.
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tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine"
   tell (variables whose name starts with "STOREVAL")
      set {varNameList, varValueList} to {name, value}
   end tell
end tell

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# Convert AppleScript List Objects into Text.
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try
   varNameList / 0
on error eMsg
   set varNameList to removeErrorNotation(eMsg) of me
end try
try
   varValueList / 0
on error eMsg
   set varValueList to removeErrorNotation(eMsg) of me
end try

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--ยป HANDLERS
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on removeErrorNotation(errStr)
   set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {"Can't make ", " into type real."}}
   set returnValue to text item 2 of errStr
   set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS
   return returnValue
end removeErrorNotation
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Now we have the issues of where to store the data and how to retrieve it.

-Chris

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