Automator workflow to combine PDFs - how to control location of output?

It WORKS! Thank you! You know that image of Snoopy from Peanut, dancing on top of his doghouse? Pretend to see Otto the Automator doing that.

I modelled the new workflow after the second one in the Stack Overflow thread, tweaks by “Dr. Tofu.” See screenshot below.

<Complaint> why doesn’t Automator have some of these obvious actions built in by now? like “Get folder name in Finder” or “Get pathname from Finder” or even built-in variables like “Today’s Date” token with parameters to modify the format, like in Hazel? Do I have an old model or something and it hasn’t been updated?</Complaint>

Next I want something to automatically instruct PDFPen “Insert Page Numbers in top right header.” Then this will really be going places. Thanks again!

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