Sometimes when I create a service in Automator, I want it to always appear in the Finder contextual menu, not just when I have a selected a file or folder.
The services are always either pure applescript or pure bash, so if it can be done some other way without using Automator, I'm also satisfied.
Always show service in contextual menu
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In Automator at the very top of your workflow, there is a dropdown box for which the prompt reads Service receives selected. If you are getting the results you report, the word text likely appears in the dropdown box. Change it to no input and save the service.
This is weird, but I have seen at least three people on Apple Support Communities who had this problem when a of process "x" and a tell application "System Events" to are on the same line.
Try this.
on run {input, parameters} tell application "System Events" tell process "TextWrangler" to set visible to not visible end tell end run
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Best Answer
I've mentioned before that the commercial utility Unsanity FruitMenu allows customization of Finder contextual menus. You could launch an AppleScript or Automator document from the contextual menu with this utility. But FruitMenu requires Rosetta and therefore won't work in Lion. I don't know if Unsanity is developing a way to implement this in Lion, or not.