Roundtrip from Workflow

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Hi there,

I am trying to send some Markdown-formatted text to DEVONthink To Go via Workflow and then return to Workflow…the URL I am using is:


x-devonthink://x-callback-url/createmarkdown?text=[ENCODED TEXT]&title=[ENCODED TITLE]&x-success=workflow://

A couple of things will happen when I run this…

  1. The Markdown file in DEVONthink To Go is “Unnamed” (this behaviour doesn’t occur when not trying the x-success parameter.

  2. After creating the file…I am not returned to Workflow.

Any thoughts?

2

The URL that you have posted works fine here and returns to Workflow

3

Did it automatically return to Workflow…i.e. without any interaction by you? I cannot get it to work without me hitting the button on the top left to return to Workflow.

4

Yes it did. It created a file in DTTG then returned to Workflow without any interaction from me. Is there any problem with the encoded text that you are using in the URL scheme?

5

Yes…I think there is. I’m using Workflow’s “URL Encode” action with a Markdown formatted file. It looks like that is where I am running into issues.

Interestingly, this only seems to occur when I use the title parameter.

6

What’s the title you’re passing to the workflow?

7

OK…I’ve done some more testing and this what I’ve learned…

I prefix the note title with the date, e.g. 2017-05-08.

If I put 2017-05- then it works fine…if I put 2017-05-08 then it won’t do the round trip.

Basically, anything after the second hyphen will cause a problem. I don’t think it’s the URL encode action either, as the hyphens do not percent encoded.

Bug?