Automator "copy finder object" with AppleScript - applescript

Question

I have created an Apple Automator service that
receives PDFs
encrypts them
copies the encrypted PDF to a destination folder
renames the encrypted PDF
These are all commands from the Automator. However, the copying as an Automator command can only copy to a pre-defined folder.
I would like to control this part by an AppleScript which reads out the user name and selects a folder accordingly:
on run {input, parameters}
set user_script to "echo $USER"
set username to do shell script user_script
if username = "A" then
set standardpfad to "/Users/" & username & "/whatever"
else if username = "B" then
set standardpfad to "/Users/" & username & "/foo"
else
display dialog "I don't know this user!" with title "ERROR" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
return
end if
#actual copying
end run
Unfortunately, I don't know how to handle the input in way that it resembles the "Copy Finder object" command in Automator. Can anyone please help me?
Thank you!
Edit:
Automator screenshot

Answer 1

Going by your original script, which seems to want to move all the files to the user's home folder, you can accomplish what you want using an automator variable. First, go to the upper left of the Automator window, click on the tab button that says 'Variables', then click on the 'Locations' item. Look for the item that says 'Home' (I believe that's 'Privat' on your machine's language):
This provides to a path to the user's home folder, for whichever user is running the workflow (system and machine independent). Drag this variable over to the Copy Finder Items (Finder-objekte kopieren) action, and drop it on the 'To:' ('Nach:') pull-down menu. It should look like this:
That should do the trick.
There are an assortment of system defined user paths you can choose from. You can also define a custom one using the special 'Text' variable (under 'Text & Data'), typing a path in standard unix notation where the tilde ('~') represents the user's home folder: e.g., ~/path/to/Custom Folder/.
If you're doing something more complicated and really need to use a Run AppleScript action, all you need to know is that the list of files is passed into the action in the input variable as a list of aliases, and whatever you return (should be a list of aliases or posix paths), will be passed on to the next action. For example:
on run {input, parameters}
set output to {}
repeat with this_item in input
set new_item to this_item -- ... obviously you'd do something other than just copy
copy new_item to end of output
end repeat
return output
end run
But it doesn't seem like you need to do that here; the special Automator variables should get you where you're going.
EDIT
Per comments, here's a revised version of the workflow...
Add the following actions to the workflow given in the question in place of the "Copy Finder Objects" action. Note that the second and sixth actions are set to ignore input from the previous action. These actions do the following:
Save the list of files to be copied to a storage variable called 'FileToCopy'; pass no data on
Get the path to the user's home folder; pass it to the next action
Get the user's 'user name'; pass the home folder and user name to the next action as a list
Run an AppleScript that constructs a unix path string from the input list; pass the completed path string on to the next action
Save the path string into a variable called 'DestinationFolder'; pass no data on
Retrieves the list of files to copy we saved in step #1; pass it on to the next action
Copy the files to the selected folder, using the 'DestinationFolder' variable we saved in step #5; pass these on to the Rename Finder Items action (not shown here)
Give it a go, and let me know how it works.