Actions help

Hi- Does anyone know of a way to apply an action to layers, when the layers names do not match with the names used when the original action was recorded? For example, in the original action, Background, Layer 1 and Layer 2 were the 3 layers in that file. But in actual usage, the layers might be named Background, Layer 4, and layer 9... This results in an error message when running the action. Is there any workaround that you might know of?

Thanks,

Ben

how about renaming the layers haha

or modifying the action so that the names fit

The best way to do it is to have the action duplicate the image and flatten it, then work from there, letting the action create it's own layers and naming them accordingly (by making named layers while you are recording the action). If you require your action to do different things to different layers that already exist, then you will need somekind of layer naming scheme that you can always follow.

Along the same answer as mihai, open the 'Window/Actions' Palette and browse to that particular action location.

Expand the the actions sub-commands.
Then take note to the immediate left of each action command, there should be two icon placeholders, the first one should look like a Check mark, the second place holder will most likely be empty. Click on the appropriate empty icon placeholder to toggle 'Dialog On/Off'.

Toggling the dialog in the right location might prompt you to rename the layer.

Just a thought!