Illustrator Action to Rename Layer and apply custom spot colour to shape

[zippidi]

I cannot believe how hard this is proving to be.

If not this type of thing then what are actions for?

All I want to do is something that should so simple and easily facilitated in Illustrator which is to rename 2 layers (because Illustrator programmers in their wisdom - decide for us that when we import a PSD file with named layers then they get tagged with 'Image' at the end).

Rename 2 layers and apply a custom spot colour to a shape.

I have defined the spot colour - set it to persistent - but nothing at all happens with the action - 'cannot find swatch' is all that happens and the layers do not get renamed.

Can someone please help with this.

Take care

Alan

[Stephen Marsh]

Agreed Mike, I mentioned 2 different approaches of doing this in post #15 and #17 – apart from user error, I don’t know why it is not working for the OP.