Tk Actions Panel

[Gauthier Zitnik]

Actionscan include steps that let you perform tasks that can't be recorded (for example, using a painting tool). Actions can also include modal controls that let you enter values in a dialog box while playing an action.

Photoshop and Illustrator come with predefined actions installed that helps you perform common tasks. You can use these actions as is, customize them to meet your needs, or create new actions. Actions are stored in sets to help you organize them.

Click the triangle to the left of the set, action, or command in the Actions panel. Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (macOS) the triangle to expand or collapse all actions in a set or all commands in an action.

Kindly provide more information about this ask. How do you plan to use the Action Panel in InDesign? Do you want it to work exactly like that in Photoshop? What are the most important actions/operations that you want to record?

Please simply take over the functionality and usability of the Photoshop action panel.

In technical documention area i have recurring sets of actions - many !! .

Using scripts is not an option as on one hand i have no coding skills and secondly no skripts are allowed due to safty regulations.

To 'clean up' manuscript files, I go through a series of text search and replaces, often in a specific order. Running these with a single Action would save so much time. My searches vary depending on the content, so I could set up various Actions accordingly. This may also include attaching a character style, e.g. if the character is a maths symbol requiring a font change, or italics for common Latin abbreviations in academic work.

It's especially surprising that this doesn't already exist because TRANSFORM SEQUENCE AGAIN (as well as Transform Sequence Again Individually) are already part of InDesign, so it's already kind of doing this. Please make it a formal feature, and yes make it like Illustrator and Photoshop.

I need 1700 pdf's, each generated from 1 indesign file in which 1 link has to be replaced by another. An action that can replace the link for me (by simply choosing the next one in the link folder) & save the pdf (according to a certain adobe pdf preset) would be a lifesaver, but only if the output filenames could have the same number as the link that has been used.

Hi Abhinav,

It's extraordinary that more than four years later we have no news about this FR. There are so many use cases for being able to quickly record a sequence of actions so they can be executed repetitively. There are few production workflows that wouldn't benefit from an Actions panel.

We regularly have repetitive tasks that need to be performed on long-form documents, and batches of documents, and having to rely on developers to write code as scripts and plug-ins is a *really* huge hurdle to optimizing workflows.

Hey Abhinav - thank you for asking!

I love how the photoshop actions do the following:

- record/stop/edit (I'm not a coder so this helps me to have a baseline I can copy)

- assign hotkeys, so I can run it from my streamdeck/keyboard maestro

- have a macro which calls another macro. Although PS not having an option to call the same macro more than once for an if then loop incredibly frustrating)

For me personally I use the photoshop acrions for:

1. Changing colours (this would be infinitely useful to be able to modify swatches - or better yet please include swatches in datamerge also).

2. running exports with all the details preset so I'm literally just hotkeyings one thing

3. showing and hiding layers

My use case at the moment: A (buggy) script has nudged ever text frame away from the spine by a fixed number of units. I'd like to create an action to nudge them back. It's quicker for me to nudge 180 frames than to write a script, since I have no experience writing IDD scripts, but if were able to record a nudge and then play it back 180 times, it would save me a lot of time right now.

Okay, I'm going to add my input on this. I am constantly creating a caption from an image. After doing so, I have to change the font, change the background, put a stroke on it, change the inset spacing and change the corner. This would REALLY be nice to have in an action.

I would like to create an action so that I can use a keyboard shortcut that automates the following (updates/relinks all links that have been broken due to files/folders being moved):

Open preflight panel and select top picture in missing link list

Click on relink

In the locate window: search for *.* (which gives a list of all files in the current folder and subfolders (here I want to, if need be, before running the action, select folder)

Click enter (as long as there are not multiple files with the same name as the broken file this will automatically relink the picture to where the file i now saved).

click ok in the information window.

relinks a broken link to any file (in a given/may last used folder with subfolder) with the same name. As it is now I

That would be great to have actions. I'm currently typesetting lots of text in tables and I need to change the case of just certain parts of the text to 'Title Case' but it feels very laborious, if there was an action set up I'm sure that would make things quicker.

It baffles me that this does not exist yet.

I use the Actions panel to create custom registration marks around any selection in Illustrator, please incorporate this in InDesign.

Following is an excerpt of my (recorded!) action:

How is this not already a thing? This is part of my day to day in photoshop and illustrator. For me, hiding and showing layers. Basically anything that I can do in the app should be actionable - like photoshop.

I create a bunch of template files and update colours and a few graphics every month. I wish I could have the option for an input box which can then change the value of an item (for example changing "SWATCH COLOUR 1", Change the month to "February". I already have one data merge in my indesign file, so a second data merge would be helpful too.

we need an action panel that would record identifiying patern in text for example:

if i past a block of text into a text frame:

1. take the first line as title and format it in a separate frame

2. take the rest of the text and spread it on a three or two column text frames.

3. take the second paragraph and format it as a secondary title.

4. be able to use paragraph styles as we;; int he formatting

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While working on a Canvas asset today, my Actions panel disappeared, Animate notified me that the file I was working on no longer existed and when I tried to open the Actions panel the program crashed again. Luckily I re-saved the file I was working on before it crashed, thus saving me from wasting an entire day's work. These Adobe bugs are a bit too exciting for me,I would prefer it if they would sort out their programming issues. Has anyone else heard of this issue?

This time the CC Desktop App wasn't even running, and when I opened my file to resume work my workspace opened with now Actions panel open again... tried to open it and the program crashed, deleted the file I opened to edit but replaced the file with one named TMP13454810B22CF7615B0309... I just want to get some work done as I am on tight deadlines.

I gotta say, I would rather just work on my projects to deliver media to my clients instead of participating in these wild, surprise adventures in finding ways to get the software to do what it's expected to do.

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The recent actions panel lets you review and monitor the last 30 changes you've made to a SharePoint site's properties (such as renaming a site, deleting a site, changing storage quota) within the last 30 days in the SharePoint admin center. This feature only shows changes made by you and not other administrators. Also, changes made to site properties at the organization-level will not show in the panel.

Without Microsoft SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management, you can only view actions made in the current session. Once you close the browser or sign out, the recent actions panel will clear the history.

If you close the browser while actions are in-progress, they will not be recorded in the panel or the CSV file. Failed actions are recorded in the panel, but are removed once you exit the current session. The exported CSV file will not contain failed actions.

You deleted 4 SharePoint sites on May 21 at 12:10 AM. The bulk edit shows as one item named Deleted 4 sites on the recent actions panel. Select the Deleted 4 sites action and the list of deleted SharePoint sites appear.

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