OmniFocus TaskPaper shortcut with projects in folders

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Hi all. Long-time listener, first-time question-asker :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ve searched but couldn’t find an answer to this, so sorry if it’s already been answered. I’m using the OmniFocus TaskPaper shortcut to add a bunch of tasks to a project when a Pushcut notification comes in.

The trouble is, my project is in a folder, and I don’t seem to be able to get the shortcut to find the project. I’ve tried referring to it by its name, its fully-qualified name (separated with /, \ and :), and I’ve tried referring to the project by ID, and whatever I do, the tasks always end up in the Inbox.

Is this a known limitation, or is there an incantation for referring to projects in folders that I’m not aware of?

Would love to know anyone’s thoughts.
Thanks so much!

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I’m not familiar with the specific Shortcut you are referring to, nor am I using those two apps mentioned.

But I do recall being confused/frustrated when I first started building Shortcuts automations to discover the folders/files had to be in the Shortcuts folder in iCloud Drive to work.

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Here I think “Folder” refers to OmniFocus’ internal structure, rather than a folder in a filesystem.

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I just used the name of the project. No folders, but all of my projects are uniquely named so they are easy to reference like this.

In Omnifocus I have a bit of a structure around my lists. Here I’m going to test with something within Web Sites.

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Then within my personal web site ThoughtAsylum.

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Then within the actual site project for that site.

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So that structure looks like this in OmniFocus - a project in a folder in a folder.

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Now, when I run this shortcut…

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It adds the new task to my project.

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Hope that helps.

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It might help to see what shortcut you are using, but in general:

omnifocus:///paste?target=/folder/<foldername>&content=<content>

IIRC, that will find the existing folder anywhere in the folder structure, even if it is nested. But I am not 100% on that and did not test it.

Is your shortcut using that url scheme to create the tasks/projects?

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Thanks all! I think @sylumer you might have it, as I was ignoring the “Name” field as it felt extraneous given that I’d already put the name of the project in the bit where it said “Project”… :wink:

I will definitely try using the Name field in the shortcut and leaving the Project field blank as in your example, and see if that solves it. I have a feeling it probably will. Thanks!