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ActionCuts

ActionCuts embeds shortcuts within shortcuts and extracts actions from existing shortcuts.

Description

ActionCuts is a powerful tool for embedding shortcuts within shortcuts and extracting actions from existing shortcuts. ActionCuts can:

Insert complete shortcuts or action blocks inside of other shortcuts.
Extract action blocks from shortcuts.
Save expanded shortcuts back to your iOS device.
Save action blocks in the ActionCuts Action Blocks Library for convenient access to your favorite code snippets.

ActionCuts is an essential tool for any developer making complex shortcuts. Developing and maintaining your shortcuts has just gotten a lot easier with ActionCuts!

Full documentation available at: https://adamtow.github.io/actioncuts/

Watch the launch trailer for ActionCuts on YouTube.

ActionCuts Before and After: From 3 to 182 actions in just a few taps!

Selecting a shortcut containing ActionCuts Embed Comments.

Latest Release Notes

1.1.8 - July 26, 2020, 2:27 p.m.

- Added Russian localization (from ZJ-Adram)

Past versions

Feedback

@atow Author

@Bingobucketster - I updated to version 1.0.2, which should fix this problem. You'll want to recreate your Wifi Action Block again, but you won't have to do this again moving forward. Thanks for the bug catch!
Reply · 9 months, 2 weeks ago

@Bingobucketster

Just wanted to let you know that I had my first big idea for my Auto Message shortcut in a while, and your ActionCuts shortcut couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve been using it very heavily, and it’s been an indispensable boon to me, as a developer!
Reply · 9 months, 2 weeks ago

@atow Author

Thanks! Make sure you are on the latest version. Have been fixing a lot of bugs related the to generating unique UUIDs for embedded actions. Is this related to your copy to clipboard post?
Reply · 9 months, 1 week ago

@Bingobucketster

Not really. A feature apart from that. That’s been working great, though! This feature allows me to save and customize groups. The current version lets you schedule group texts, but you have to say how many people there are and choose them each time. Now people can just save a group of contacts for easy access to their favorites. I’ll be sure to update ActionCuts!
Reply · 9 months, 1 week ago

@JimSauer

@atow, ActionCuts is amazing and so useful. Thanks for you sharing your brilliant shortcuts with the community. v1.1.5: I discovered that embedded comments are case sensitive. Intentional? Also, when using iOS "Settings>Keyboards>Text Replacements" for the AC embedded comments, I discovered that comments that include a trailing space (default behavior when iOS inserts a 'Phrase') are not recognized by AC. Both are minor observations, but thought you might want to know.
Reply · 9 months ago

@atow Author

Yes, they are currently case-sensitive. I’ll look into ways to make this more forgiving in the future.
Reply · 9 months ago

@atow Author

@JimSauer - Here’s a beta release of ActionCuts which should resolve the case-sensitivity and spaces: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/40169c9e7ecb4996b8c483c0478a8738
Reply · 9 months ago

@JimSauer

Thanks @atow. I tested the beta and confirmed that it is case-insensitive (for the embedded comment) and ignores trailing spaces. Thanks for making that change! (BTW, you probably know that the shortcut name, inserted after {{ActionCuts Shortcut:, is still case-sensitive. I don't see that as a problem, but you might consider alerting users.)
Reply · 9 months ago

@djoii

It crashes shortcuts when I try to add it.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@atow Author

Hmm... try force quitting Shortcuts (or restarting iPhone/iPad) before trying to install it. What device are you running this on?
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@Mbierman

Essential for Shortcut development. Thank you!
Reply · 7 months ago

@Mbierman

I am wondering if you have considering an option to compare two versions of a shortcut? This would be really helpful.
Reply · 7 months ago

@atow Author

Not at the moment. I think the easiest way to do this is by using an app like Working Copy (a Git client for iOS), saving a known version of a shortcut to a file, and comparing it with a new version of the shortcut. Its diff engine is much better than the simple one I'm using in ActionCuts.
Reply · 7 months ago