Call a coworker

Looks for contacts from a given company name (added on input), then asks you to choose which contact and calls them.

Actions

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Text
Passes the specified text to the next action.
Find Contacts
Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.
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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.
Call
Calls the phone number passed in as input.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Call%20a%20coworker
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Call%20a%20coworker
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Call a coworker” end tell

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