Using Text Expander to change format of EagleFinder Title

[caysnowman]

I am implementing a Paperless System with a Scan Snap 1300 and Eagle Filer. I have the SS Manager configured such that the image is "OCR'ed' and sent to EF.

When I open EF, I want to change the name of the TITLE to simplify future searches. I have written a few basic Snippets that allow me to add the month and day or day via Fill - Ins to the current year and one that allows me to enter the year - month - date along with other repeating data. I have checked these snippets in a couple of apps (Pages, Text Edit, Notes etc) and they work as expected.

The problem I am having is when I go to EF and try to change the title from the generic imported title consisting of current day and a 3 digit pdf identifier. I highlite the entire generic Title, run the shortcut to the TE Snippet I want, fill in the boxes and hit return. I then constantly get a BEEP followed by a return to the original generic Title.

Anyone else using TE with EF successfully?

Thanks, Bill

[Michael Tsai]

The problem I am having is when I go to EF and try to change the title from the generic imported title consisting of current day and a 3 digit pdf identifier. I highlite the entire generic Title, run the shortcut to the TE Snippet I want, fill in the boxes and hit return. I then constantly get a BEEP followed by a return to the original generic Title.

It works for me when editing a document in EagleFiler’s main viewer. For the Title field, the issue seems to be that bringing up TextExpander’s fill-in window causes EagleFiler to think that you’re done and take the Title field out of edit mode. Then when you dismiss the fill-in window, there’s nowhere for TextExpander to type.

I’ll look into whether there’s a way to make this work better, but in the meantime maybe there’s a way to do what you want without using fill-ins?

Another option would be to write an AppleScript that prompts for your fill-ins and then tells EagleFiler to set the title.

Note: For the File field, you could put %key:return% at the start of your TextExpander snippet. This would make EagleFiler begin editing in the File field before TextExpander types the expansion. Alas, the shortcut for editing in the Title field is Option-Return, which I couldn’t figure out how to do in TextExpander. (Using System Events to simulate keystroke return using option down didn’t work.)