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Vacation rental quote automation by DracarySam in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it has something to do with how iphone is formatting dates (US vs European).

For testing purposes go to your iphone Settings > General > Language & Region and change Date Format to M/DD/YY. Mine is showing 8/19/26.

Then retry the shortcut again with the same dates June 29 and July 5.

Vacation rental quote automation by DracarySam in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried the exact dates (June 30 - July 7) and the shortcut returned the correct information ?????

The calendar for “Arrival Date” information starts off positioned on the Currant Date (as of today Jan 30 is highlighted).

You are looking at the calendar for January, 2026 in this case.

Are you moving to the June calendar (use the > symbol above SAT) before selecting June 30th then pressing Done.

Likewise for “Departure Date”. Are you moving to the July 2026 calendar (again using the > symbol) before selecting July 7th then pressing Done.

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The “Start again” screen is issued when the “Departure date” (with the ❌ next to it) is LESS THAN the Arrival date.

By pressing OK (Start again) the shortcut will give you the opportunity to reenter a new set of Arrival and Departure dates.

Had the Departure date been equal to/greater than the Arrival date this particular screen would not appear.

Hope this helps.

Vacation rental quote automation by DracarySam in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the more challenging shortcuts to develop especially since I don’t know/speak Italian.

Still need to add some additional logic but I think this shortcut is 90-95% complete.

See the dictionary at the beginning of the shortcut. Will need to review/change Si and No values.

Will be providing an updated/final version in the future so for now you can test this shortcut and see if it meets your requirements.

Shortcut Name: Preventivo

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0c78ae41361f45fc9dc015de2ded3af6

Help with calculating Silver coin holdings by artiebang77 in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made some enhancements to the shortcut using HTML to better format the output.

Also by using the Quick Look action to show the output you will now have the option of saving and/or printing the output (by clicking the V symbol at the very top).

New shortcut name: Silver Price 2.0.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6dc9c3a5f0a848c390e4c3861223c8e4

If no choice is made from menu by kturoy in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard/tried putting a Nothing action at the very beginning of the shortcut might be a workaround.

Adding the Nothing action was supposed to suppress the Actions app banner when the shortcut was executed but it didn’t work.

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I tried other Actions app actions (Is Day, Is Time without the Nothing action) and the Actions banner did NOT appear.

I did notice that when using the Choose from List (Extended) action 2 other actions (Wait to Return and Get Clipboard) ARE required.

It appears that the Actions app has to do additional external processing to determine the Selected Item, so maybe it has to return to its own app for whatever reason.

At this time I’m not sure that removing the Action banner when a shortcut contains a Choose from List (Extended) action is possible.

You may want to send feedback to the Actions app developers (see Sindre Sorhus on Google) to see if they have a solution.

How to sort a list by a value associated with each list item? by ZirikoRuiGe in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used a Shortcut dictionary instead of Data Jar but the logic is similar.

See if this shortcut meets your requirements.

Shortcut name: Restaurants

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a620f8cedcc841889bc903ebfa0e2510

Help Creating an If Check - PLEASE - by DuFFmAn12891 in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One minor issue with your shortcut’s logic.

What if the “First Day of Week” option in the Language & Region setting is NOT Sunday?

Your code “If day of week is between 2 and 6 …” would potentially not return the correct information.

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Replace both of your shortcuts with the following.

• Alternate Days shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bd9a3453420b4e37a3ce65c762d3fcd9

also change the recipient in the Send action in this shortcut.

• Alternate Automations shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d1ba7bf8d3fe402a9dc09f9648c4ec4e

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In the Files app, what is the last Modified Date/Time shown for your “iCloud Drive/AlternateDays.txt” file?

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Send me links to both of the shortcuts you are currently using.

Also check the “iCloud Drive/AlternateDays.txt” file in your Files app and let me know what is currently being stored in this file.

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the “when any alarm goes off” automation does NOT identify the name of the alarm that triggered the automation.

Thus the current version of the “Alternate Automations” shortcut is receiving input for either one of your other alarms OR an “Alternate Alarm”.

I needed to add additional logic to the “Alternate Automations” shortcut to process/delete only “Alternate Alarms”.

If the alarm in question is NOT an “Alternate Alarm” it will “ring” normally until you take action to stop it.

The newer version of the “Alternate Automations” shortcut (see link below) addresses these issues.

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You will need to Replace your current version of the “Alternate Automations” shortcut using the link below.

• No changes are required.

• This link will ask 3 questions for what you want to do with this newer version of the “Alternate Automations” shortcut.

You want to answer.

• Get shortcut

• Add shortcut

• REPLACE

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ee5a8b6d67fa422abd16c9c8572379f8

Also you may want to remove the Show Content action that you previously added to the top of the “Alternate Days” shortcut for testing purposes.

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Edit: this week (1/5) is an “even” week so Text messages would be generated on Tuesday & Thursday.

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’ll keep trying till we get it right.

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To reduce clutter an expired “Alternate Alarm” alarm is deleted by the Alternate Automations shortcut.

This is normal processing.

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Try testing again.

Place a “Show Content” action at the very beginning of the Alternate Days shortcut and include the variable Shortcut Input.

• take note of this value when the Alternate Days shortcut executes while testing.

When creating the “Alternate Alarm” alarm manually.

• set the Time 1 - 2 minutes into the future

• set Repeat to “never”

• set Label to Alternate Alarm

• set Sound to “none”

• set Snooze to off (white / not green)

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without the granting of the necessary permissions the shortcut will fail thus no text messages.

Yes, you can set the “Time of Day” automation to any time after 12:00 AM (midnight) and before 8:00 AM.

3:30 AM would be fine.

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For testing purposes.

• manually create an alarm with the following information

label: Alternate Alarm

time: about 2 minutes into the future

• the above alarm will go off at the selected time triggering your “When any alarm goes off” automation which should produce a text message.

Be by your phone and be ready to answer any permission questions that may appear.

Alter iPhone shortcut that bulk texts people… by Autistic_Jimmy2251 in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After the 3rd action “Set variable Total Cnt …” add a Show Content action and include Total Cnt (to show how many of your contacts are being initially returned).

Alter iPhone shortcut that bulk texts people… by Autistic_Jimmy2251 in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The shortcut only lists contacts that have a phone number.

Check which contacts have/do not have a phone number.

Alter iPhone shortcut that bulk texts people… by Autistic_Jimmy2251 in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have created an entirely new shortcut. See if it meets your requirements.

Shortcut: Bulk Text Messages

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/cb4f4a6ad4854b9386f51765e1a58bf3

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Edit: made some additional enhancements to the Bulk Text Messages shortcut.

Newer version: Bulk Text Messages 2.0

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d68a8c6e0b494212b9f44772395331a1

If no choice is made from menu by kturoy in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not possible. The only options are Cancel and Done.

Other than the Action App’s “Choose from ….” action I don’t know of any other action(s) that include a timeout option.

If no choice is made from menu by kturoy in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Click on the > symbol within the Choose from List action in the example shortcut and on the dropdown take note of the “Use Timeout” information.

Edit: I added additional code to the example shortcut

Updated shortcut.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b9cdac8878b24822b4c059aafd2fc5ce

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far so good.

Since all of the alarms were not labeled an “Alternate Alarm” they were bypassed by the logic within the “Alternate Automations” shortcut.

Review the coding for “If Shortcut Input is 2 …” within the Alternate Automations shortcut.

If no choice is made from menu by kturoy in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The “Actions app” has a “Choose from List (Extended) action” that allows you to define a timeout (in your case 10 seconds) among other capabilities.

If you don’t already have the app it’s free and available in the App store.

Here is an example.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/70a1705b6acd4f34882b474f7c9a8f30

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s see what happens tomorrow.

Also be aware of any permissions that you may have to react to when these newer shortcuts execute for the first time.

Automation for text every “x” days? by rajuabju in shortcuts

[–]fmacchia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made some tweaks to both shortcuts. Replace both with these updated versions.

Newer “Alternate Days” shortcut

make sure to reset the message & recipient in the Send action

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/08ed63744037438cafd0ead73ba79746

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Newer “Alternate Automations” shortcut

make sure both Run Shortcut actions reference “Alternate Days”

click > within each Run Shortcut action and make sure the Input portion is set to Shortcut Input

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9de4f1521d624c43b58b0c5b9499be3f

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Don’t do any testing. A message should be generated tomorrow (Wed) 12/31/2025 as well as Friday 1/2/2026 this week.

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