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Action(s) 1.1.8 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.

Action(s) 1.1.6 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.

• Send files via FTP. (yep, a lot of you have been waiting for this one since a very long time!)
• Convert a text into a QR code (you know, those square bar codes that you find a little bit everywhere now)
• Produce the MD5 hash of a file

If you ask customers what is the most important thing that has changed with the usage of computers, we believe that in many cases the answer will be: "Now it is possible to do many tasks and routines much faster and with more efficiently than before." A statement with which we entirely agree. Nevertheless, the degree of automation depends on the capabilities of your tools. If you have to perform a set of actions and steps, and nobody has ever written a program with such a purpose, you’re left with not some many solutions.

Action(s) 1.1.5 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.

Action(s) 1.1.4 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.

Especially, using the add date mode, you can add a date to the file name using various date formats. By default, Rename Files provides 7 formats:

Date and Time Format	Example
dd MMMMM yyyy	29 March 2011
dd-MM-yy	29-03-11
MM-dd-yy	03-29-11
yyyyMMdd	20110329
dd-MM-yy hh.mm.ss	29-03-11 17.42.12
h.mm a	5.42 pm
hh.mm	17.42

But you can also create your own format if the ones provided does not answer your need. It is very easy. Action(s) interprets different letters as date and time codes and replaces them by their values. You can combine the codes to create your own format.
Here are the available iddentifiers:

Code	Date or Time Component	Examples
G	Era designator	AD
yy	Year (2 digits)	96
yyyy	Year (4 digits)	1996
MM	Month in year (2 digits)	07
MMM	Month in year (3 letters)	Jul
MMMM	Month in year (full)	July
w	Week in year	27
W	Week in month	2
D	Day in year	189
d	Day in month (1 or 2 digits)	5 ; 23
dd	Day in month (2 digits)	05 ; 23
F	Day of week in month	2
EEE	Day in week (3 letters)	Tue
EEEE	Day in week (full)	Tuesday
a	Am/pm marker	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23) (1 or 2 digits)	0 ; 14
HH	Hour in day (0-23) (2 digits)	00 ; 14
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12) (1 or 2 digits)	12 ; 3
hh	Hour in am/pm (1-12) (2 digits)	12 ; 03
k	Hour in day (1-24) (1 or 2 digits)	24 ; 3
kk	Hour in day (1-24) (2 digits)	24 ; 03
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11) (1 or 2 digits)	0 ; 11
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11) (2 digits)	00 ; 11
m	Minute in hour (1 or 2 digits)	30 ; 5
mm	Minute in hour (2 digits)	30 ; 05
s	Second in minute (1 or 2 digits)	55 ; 8
ss	Second in minute (2 digits)	55 ; 08
S	Millisecond (1, 2 or 3 digits)	978 ; 78 ; 9
SSS	Millisecond (3 digits)	978 ; 078 ; 009
zzz	Time zone (short name if available or GMT based)	PST ; GMT-08:00
zzzz	Time zone (full name if available or GMT based)	Pacific Standard Time ; GMT-08:00
Z	Time zone (RFC 822 format)	-0800

Text can be quoted using single quotes (') to avoid interpretation. '' (2 quotes) represents a single quote.
All characters which are not letters (from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z') are not interpreted and so do not need to be put between quotes.

The following examples show how date and time patterns are interpreted in the U.S. locale. The given date and time are 4 July 2001 at 12:08:56 local time in the U.S. Pacific Time time zone.

Date and Time Format	Result
yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z	2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
EEE, MMM d, ''yy	Wed, Jul 4, '01
h:mm a	12:08 PM
hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz	12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
K:mm a, z	0:08 PM, PDT
yyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa	2001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z	Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
yyMMddHHmmssZ	010704120856-0700

Action(s) 1.1.3 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.

You asked, we listened: Action(s) 1.1 contains next to a 100 new functionalities, improvements and bug corrections, including:

• 9 new actions to efficiently manage email messages. Compatible with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Live Mail and more.
• 3 new actions to improve the dynamic of your workflows: Condition, Loop and Dispense items incrementally.
• Execute scripts within your workflow, using JavaScript or AppleScript*.
• Variable edition
• Improved security. Application signed with a 2048 bit certificate.

So what’s new in version 1.1? Well, it contains next to a 100 new functionalities, improvements and bug corrections, including:

• 9 new actions to efficiently manage email messages. Compatible with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Live Mail and more.
• 3 new actions to improve the dynamic of your workflows: Condition, Loop and Dispense items incrementally.
• Execute scripts within your workflow, using JavaScript or AppleScript*.
• Variable edition
• Improved security. Application signed with a 2048 bit certificate.

• The creation of a Mac App Store where Java applications will not be accepted
• The end of Apple’s support of Java on Mac OS X
  

No, Java is not dead on Mac OS X

Java and the Mac App Store

One more thing…

The Convert to JPEG action is for you. It converts any picture into a JPEG file with the quality rate indicated. Download it right now from the More Actions webpage or by clicking on "Get more actions..." in the "Help" menu of Action(s).

Action(s) 1.0.1 release content:

• "Copy file" action: Now prevent from coping a folder into itself or one of its sub-folders. Prior to this release, Action(s) was generating an infinite number of sub-folders within the destination folder.
• "Get URL" action: Selected lines backgrounds were white instead of using the system colors.
• "Show notification in tray bar" action: Mac OS X - The notification windows is now using the system colors.
• Variable selection combo box: Selected lines backgrounds were white instead of using the system colors.
• Some actions were displaying an incorrect version number (1.1 instead of 1.0.1)
• "Split files" additional actions: An error message was displayed when adding one of the actions in the workflow. Users of the "Split files" additional actions can download the latest version at http://app.jbbres.com/actions/more
• Action(s) plug-in folder now support jar file as well as actc files
• New version of the Action(s) API (v1.0.1) available. Users of the API can download the latest version at http://app.jbbres.com/developers/libraries/actions/

Action(s) has been selected freewaregenuis pick by the famous freewaregenuis.com blog. As we are reading this website since a long time at app.jbbres.com, and loving what these guys are doing, you can imagine that this has been a great surprise for all of us.

A few selected lines:
« The range of options that Actions supports, I will say, is truly impressive »
« What can this program do for you? Most anything you can think of. »
« Very user friendly and goes a long way towards making this application accessible and easy to learn »
« There’s no syntax to learn and no libraries or functions to deal with; the experience is closer to building a Lego than writing code. »
And my personal favorite :D: « I’ve been playing with this software for a couple of days and I just love it. The developers have done an astounding job making this software both powerful and accessible. »

Read the full article at http://www.freewaregenius.com/2010/10/13/actions-automate-all-kinds-of-tasks-via-drag-and-drop-without-writing-a-line-of-code.

If you were already using the beta or release candidate version of Action(s), the update will download automatically next time you will start Action(s) from your desktop or by clicking on this the launch button below:

Yep, you can now search the library of actions. That’s a very useful function, so we hope you will like it.

Plus, this version is tagged RC. This means that, except for major issue, this will be the last version before the final 1.0. We are very excited about that!

So, as always, the update will download automatically next time you will start Action(s) from your desktop or by clicking on this the launch button below:

• Presentation: 350 over 400 possible points
• Function: 300 over 300 possible points
• Originality: 300 over 300 possible points

• The first collection gives you control over the mouse and keyboard of the computer: the 9 actions included into this pack allows you to move the mouse over the screen, click a mouse button, press a combination of keys etc.
• The second one is a little action that might be a great help for HTML developers: it converts the received text into the ISO 8859-1 charset for HTML: with this action, no more problem of accents and special characters in your web pages!

Action(s) provides a lot of built-in actions to work with files, images, Internet... but depending on what you want to do, this might not be enough. Fortunatly, Action(s) is also made to support additional actions, which means that anybody with some knowledge in computer programing can create new actions and add them into Action(s).
In order to help you find new actions, we have create a dedicated webpage where all extentions for Action(s) are available. You can access it by clicking on the "Get more actions..." menu in Action(s) or simply by following this link.
One on the webpage, simply download the new actions you are interrested in, open the actc file and and the new actions will be instantly available within Action(s). Et voila.

But wait, that’s not all: today we are providing the very first extention for Action(s). We named it Split Files because it’s a set of actions to split big files in smaller files. It is very usefull if you want to sent files via the Internet but have a size limitation. We’re sure you gonna love it! It is available in the Get more actions webpage.

If you are a developper and you want to know how to create your own actions, remember that everything you need - API, documentation, tutorial and much more - are available in the Resources for developpers webpage.

Among all the new functionalities and bug corrections of this new beta version, there is one that we are very proud and that we would like to present you: in Action(s), you might have noticed that a lot of the actions need to receive input to work properly. For example, if you add an “Add Border to Image” action into your workflow, it requires to receive image files to work on, otherwise the action will have no effect.
Well now, if you add such an action at the beginning of your workflow, Action(s) knows that it will have no effect and suggests you to add a matching action in front of it.

Creating your workflow and automation has never been easier.
And more than ever, continue to send us your comments and feedbacks!

• Easy-to-use interface: Action(s) comes with a library of dozens of actions that users can browse or search to find exactly what they need. Actions are dragged and dropped from the library to create workflows.
• Complete control: the pre-installed actions allow manipulation of files and folders, image cropping, scaling, conversion, and adjustment, command line execution, variable storage and access and much more.
• Extendable architecture: Developers can easily create and share their own actions.
• Re-usable: Display controls allow action parameters to be customized each time a workflow is executed; encapsulated flow design enables workflows to be used within other workflows.
• Portable: Java and XML format used by Action(s) ensure that workflows can be shared with others, whatever their operating system is.
  

Simply click on the launch button. Action(s) will download and start.

Action(s) 1.1.7 contains minor bug corrections. Find all the details regarding this release in the release notes page.