What elements do I use to activate an Automator Workflow?

Questions & Suggestions
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Background: I’ve just loaded KM for the first time so I have no experience with it. I’m still at the stumbling in the dark stage.

Question: I want to activate an Automator Workflow but I don’t see any obvious building blocks for that purpose.
To put this in context my overall goal is to save an email to a particular folder and save the pdf attachment to the same folder. I’ve figured out the first part. I have an automator workflow to do the second part but I can’t see how to activate it from KM so that I can combine the two activities into one.
I should note that by searching around on this subject I see that Applescript is a popular solution for this type of activity but I don’t want to use it. While not denying its power I find that I don’t use it frequently enough to retain any skills in putting together scripts.

So what I want to know is:
Are there the building blocks within KM to activate the automator workflow and then any suggestions of which ones to use would be most welcome.

Thanks

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There is an “Execute an Automator Workflow” action in the Actions/Execute menu. That is all you need to run an Automator Workflow

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As we all are at some point. :smile:

https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Execute_an_Automator_Workflow

Remember that you can search for menu items using the field in the Help Menu.

You can also use Insert Action by Name ⌃⌘A and typing a keyword.

These methods help you discover where features are.

There’s also a searchable PDF version of the documentation:

http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/documentation/7/keyboardmaestro.pdf

-Chris

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Thanks for your response, very much appreciated.
I found it.

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Thanks for your response.

That’s very helpful and much appreciated.