MACRO: Go To Macro by Name (Spotlight)

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Awesome idea! I'm on KM10 and got this error:

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After I remove the scroll macros, it searches and finds my macros nicely but hitting enter doesn't do anything. If I then manually Try Action on the Go to the selected macro - Abort if error group, it takes me to the requested macro.

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I'm not sure if this will work for you or not, but give it a try:

[KM] Go To Macro by Name (Spotlight).kmmacros (40.3 KB)

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Yep that did it!! Thanks Dan!

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it works very nicely. Thank you very much Dan. I was wondering if there was a way to ignore disabled macros. I have many duplicates (work in progress in test groups) which hugely increases the number of results.
thanks again

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Glad it works for you. Not at the moment, no. Maybe in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

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thank you Dan !

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As a temp solution you could run this AppleScript in an Execute AppleScript action. It will disable all selected macros and prepend them "xx__" which will have the effect of moving them to the bottom of the list of macros in that group. When you search for a macro with @DanThomas tool they will still be displayed but they will be at the bottom of the list and have a prefix you know indicates they are disabled. (ultra minimal testing, i am not an AppleScript pro)

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# Auth: cfriend
# dCre: 2022-07-03-09-00
# dMod: 2022-07-03-09-00
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro 
# Task: Enable or Disable the selected macros adding a prefix to send them to the bottom of alphabetical lists
# Reqs: Satimage.osax
#             http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html
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use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
	set macroList to every macro whose selected is true
	if (count of macroList) is 0 then
		display dialog "No Macros Selected" buttons {"Cancel"} default button "Cancel"
	end if
	repeat with aMacro in macroList
		set oldName to (name of aMacro)
		if oldName does not contain "xx__" then
			set newName to "xx__" & (name of aMacro)
			set name of aMacro to newName
			set enabled of aMacro to false
		else if oldName contains "xx__" then
			set newName to change "xx__(.*)" into "\\1" in oldName with regexp without case sensitive
			set name of aMacro to newName
			set enabled of aMacro to true
		end if
	end repeat
end tell
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I will test it thanks very much !

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You’re welcome. Pls note it requires Satimage.osax, the download URL is in the script header.

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