Syntax to run AppleScript in Automator

Verify that your AppleScript code works in Script Editor before you place it in Automator.

You choose an Automator application and in the workflow, you select the Run AppleScript action. You do as it says, replace (* Your script goes here *) text with your actual copy/pasted script source, not a reference to an external script file. The first line in your Run AppleScript should be use scripting additions and that goes outside of the on run block with a separating space:

use scripting additions

on run {input, parameters}

...blah

end run

Then, you click that hammer icon in the Run AppleScript action, save the Automator application to you Desktop and it will respond to a double-click.

The use scripting additions is innocent here. You should use the following structure when using Run AppleScript in Automator, keeping your handlers separate from the main on run body:

use scripting additions

on run {input, parameters}

your primary applescript code
...
my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutseconds)
return input

end run

on doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds

your handler code
...

end doWithTimeout

You are welcome.