Unable to Assign Shortcut Key to Service or Workflow

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I have successfully created a thing of beauty for a repetitious portion of my daily workflow - creating multiple sub-folders within a main folder, complete with a blue label.

I'm not sure why but after creating the service I go to Finder and right click a folder>services>"service name" and am able to use it. However it is not available under "finder" in the main top bar.

I have assigned hotkeys to the service in system prefs, but no matter the combo it doesn't ever work. I've posted my service workflow below (Pic 1 & 2), and the correct end result (Pic 3). Any thoughts or ideas would be great.

Side note: I followed a tutorial for automating a "permanently delete" service and it showed up fine, and was able to assign hotkeys to it and execute properly. After I started creating my own service is when I noticed no services were showing up on "finder" in the main nav bar.

It's also strange that the service only works correctly if I have "Get Specified Finder Items" at the beginning. If I remove that and run the service it give's me an error.

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Cory Cooper

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Hello and welcome,

I am not very experienced with Automator/AppleScript. It may be best to post your question to the experts in this forum:

MacScripter

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