Actions: stacking?

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
February 23, 2013
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Is it possible to stack Action Sets?

ie: A functionality when one set of actions is completed, to then execute another set of actions?

As an example: Action Set 1 : opens file performs a series of actions, closes file.

When all files are completed, to run Action Set 2

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Thanks

Jeff

Actions and scripting

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Michael_L_Hale

Inspiring

Why not just record an action that plays the other action in the order you wish?

J

Jeff S GP2Author

Known Participant

My actions are a bit complicated..

I'm utilizing the File/Automate/Batch command.

Action set1

opens file

performs changes

copies image to an opened document.

closes first document

( This process is done 250 times..I have 250 files in a folder)

Action set2:

performs changes on all the 250 layers of the second document.

Action set2 can only be executed once the entiore first Action set1 is completed.

The only way to compile the entire process would be to copy Action Set1 250 times,( that's how many files it needs to process) then a command to initiate the second action set. But doing it this way would also make the process name/directory specific. I'd need to indicate what file/directory to open.

Ideally I would like to initiate a File/Automate/Batch command on a specified directory. once an action set is completed to then perform a second Action set.

Paul Riggott

Inspiring

I still think it could be done in one pass, as a very basic example...

#target photoshop
main();
function main(){
var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select the folder with Files to process");
if(inputFolder == null) return;
var fileList = inputFolder.getFiles(/\.(jpg|tif|png|psd)$/i);
for(var a in fileList){
var openFile = open(fileList);
var Name = app.activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
//run your action on the open document
///////// Amend to suit
//app.doAction('atn name', 'atnSet name');
//merge if there are more than one layer
try{activeDocument.mergeVisibleLayers();}catch(e){}
activeDocument.activeLayer.name = Name;
if(a == 0){
//create a document to stack all the files
var stackedDocs = activeDocument.duplicate("Stacked Documents");
openFile.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
}else{
    openFile.activeLayer.duplicate(stackedDocs);
    openFile.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
    }
}
//All files have now been processed and stacked into a new file.
app.activeDocument = stackedDocs;
//run your action on the stacked document
///////// Amend to suit
//app.doAction('atn name', 'atnSet name');
//save and close can be put here
};

Paul Riggott

Inspiring

It would be much easier to write a script for the workflow and to incorporate actions to do the repetitive tasks. The script should control the open/save/close of documents. Then you should be able to do everything in one pass.

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