Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Add contacts to group
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Actions Used
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
List
Allows you to specify a list of items to be passed to the next action.
Edit Contact
Sets a specific field of the contact passed into the action.
Detail
The property of the contact to edit.
Edit
The operation to perform on the selected property of the contact.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20contacts%20to%20group
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20contacts%20to%20group
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add contacts to group”
end tell
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