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I have a simple AppleScript that works exactly as expected when run on its own, ether as an app, directly from within ScriptDebugger or Script Editor, or as an element of an Automation from within Automator:

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However, when I attempt to run this Automation as a Service, for example by saving it as a Service and running it from the Services menu

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nothing happens. The Service fails to run whether I use a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator, or create an application from the script, and use a Launch Application action.

Why won't my AppleScript run as a Service, when it runs perfectly in all other circumstances?

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  • Works for me. Have you renamed the TextWrangler application?
    – ghoppe
    Aug 1, 2012 at 20:45
  • PS. The Services menu isn't a great place for this sort of thing, imho. If you want to assign shortcuts to Applescripts, you might be interested in FastScripts
    – ghoppe
    Aug 1, 2012 at 20:52
  • @ghoppe: Why is it not a great place?
    – orome
    Aug 1, 2012 at 20:55
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    The Services menu is intended for context-aware processing of text, files, pictures, etc. While it's possible to shoehorn global "run anywhere" scripts that take no input in there, to me it makes more sense to keep those in the global scripts menu. I like to keep my Services menu lean so that it's more useful.
    – ghoppe
    Aug 1, 2012 at 21:01
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    @raxacoricofallapatorius There's a bug where the shortcuts for services don't always work at first until the service has been selected once from the menu bar. Services with global shortcuts cannot be run when the frontmost application doesn't have a services menu. Editing scripts in Automator can be a pain. Services aren't as easy to share as normal scripts.
    – Lri
    Aug 1, 2012 at 21:02

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This is weird, but I have seen at least three people on Apple Support Communities who had this problem when a of process "x" and a tell application "System Events" to are on the same line.

Try this.

on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "System Events"
      tell process "TextWrangler" to set visible to not visible
  end tell
end run
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