Automator running after sleep

[BMurphy28]

I am running Mavericks on a 2010 iMac quad-core with 16 Gbytes of memory. I am trying to get Automator to send out an email. I have setup the calendar event and added "New Mail Message" and "Send Mail Message" (I am using Mail because I could never get Outlook to work). If I run this manually, it works - it sends the email. But it won't work automatically. I have my iMac set to sleep (including processor) after 10 minutes of idle time. But I have it scheduled to wakeup 5 minutes before I want to send the email message. I can watch and it does wakeup. But it won't send the email message (unless I run the automator script manually). Thanks for any help

 

[Kaveman]

If you are using Calendar to run an Automator Workflow you need to set make sure its an Workflow App then
Calendar Event - Alert - Custom - Open File - The name of your Workflow App

 

[BMurphy28]

If you are using Calendar to run an Automator Workflow you need to set make sure its an Workflow App then
Calendar Event - Alert - Custom - Open File - The name of your Workflow App

I don't understand your comment. I go into Automator, choose "Calendar Alert", drag-and-drop "New mail message" into the Automator pane, create the email in that action, and drag-and-drop "Send mail message" into the Automator pane. If I push the "play" button in Automator it will create and send the email. It just won't do it when it is scheduled to. My system is set to wake up 5 minutes before the alert is scheduled and the system is set to stay awake for 10 minutes.

 

[Kaveman]

Correction: Yes make it a "Calendar Alert"

But you you still need to tell the Calendar App when to fire it by making an Event in the Calendar App and

Calendar Event - Alert - Custom - Open File - The name of your Workflow App

 

[BMurphy28]

Thanks for the input. I thought that defining the Calendar event via Automator by selecting the "Calendar Alarm" document type would automatically select "open file" in the Calendar event alert... and normally it does. But I had edited the event and done something that changed the Alert from "Open File" to "None". I deleted my event and my Automator script and started over. This time I only change the time in the Calendar event and all is working. Thanks again.