At work one of my duty is to take care of purchase orders for my team mates. The workflow involve always the same three steps.
Being an Omnifocus user, I wrote a small AppleScript that takes as input a purchase description and as output creates a main task with three sub tasks in Omnifocus directly.
-- Entry point when run
on run
display dialog "Enter purchase order description:" default answer "Purchase"
createOmniFocusTask(the result's text returned)
end run
-- Create tasks in Omnifocus
on createOmniFocusTask(eventName)
tell application "OmniFocus"
tell default document
-- Grab the context
set purchaseContext to first context whose name is "Emarsys"
-- Create the task inside a project
set fld to first folder whose name is "Emarsys"
tell fld
set proj to first project whose name is "Single Actions"
tell proj
-- Create parent task and its subtasks.
set parentTask to make new task with properties {name:eventName, sequential:true}
tell parentTask
make new task with properties {name:"Print Formular for " & eventName, context:purchaseContext}
make new task with properties {name:"Get the Sign for " & eventName, context:purchaseContext}
make new task with properties {name:"Order for " & eventName, context:purchaseContext}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end createOmniFocusTask
Copy and paste that into a new script in AppleScript Editor (or download a copy here) and try it out.
Of course, you have to adapt a little bit if you do not have an Emarsys context.