Possible to execute a macro dynamically?

[malkomalko]

I have a macro that iterates over a collection and executes a macro based off a switch statement. I'd love to know if there's a way to dynamically execute a macro using a variable name so I wouldn't have to add a new statement inside of the switch if I wanted to add a new item to the collection.

Thanks!

[tiffle]

@malkomalko

if there's a way to dynamically execute a macro using a variable name

Yes there is and I use this method myself for exactly the use case you mention.

The great @gglick showed us the way in this post:

'Execute Macro' by Name in a Variable

Instead of the built-in Execute a Macro action, you can run a macro via AppleScript. As an example, this macro: [image] tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set MacroToRun to getvariable "ThingToDo" do script MacroToRun end tell executes this macro: [image] which produces this result: [18%20AM] With this method, you could set the variable naming the macro-to-be-run however you like, then either replace your current "IF ELSE" based macro with one consisting of this single Execute a…

[malkomalko]

Awesome. Thank you