Filter or Find Finder Items Using Variable In the Filter Finder Items and Find Finder Items actions, Automator lets you type out criteria for what your looking for like:
Folder Name Contains: (Manually Insert Text Here)
Here is an example image of &quot;AnchorFile&quot; being the typed criteria:

Is there anyway to pass a variable onto the filter?
I have tried to put a Get Value of Variable action before the filter/find in the hopes of being able to use the variable as the search criteria. Similar to this workflow:

The goal is to find the &quot;XXXXX_Workers Compensation&quot; folder on my computer using only a variable and filter/find Actions
I hope this is clearer than a previous post I made as I am a newbie in the Applescript/Automator world.
If we can get this &quot;pass a variable to filter/find&quot; thing to work, it would effectively:

Create a foldername from a filename,
Then input that foldername into the search bar of Finder to bring up the folder in Finder.

Thanks for any help you can give.
Turns out I needed to do a spotlight search instead of Filter/Find Finder Items in order to use a string to find the folder by its name alone (Without path).
I also did not need to store the filename as a variable in order for me to accomplish this final workflow but spotlight can use a variable that is a string to search I found out.
Here is my final workflow. 
EXPLANATION:
(Get Specified Finder Items and Get Folder Contents were in place for testing within Automator)

A file being added to a folder called &quot;WCCalcs&quot; triggers the workflow.

Steps 1-2 (Filter Finder Items and Set Value or Variable):
Singles out our new file which is a pdf and saves it in a variable called 'MovingFile'.
It will always look like &quot;#####_WCCalcs_YYYY&quot;

with &quot;#####&quot; being a 5-digit number
and &quot;YYYY&quot; being the current year


Steps 3-4 (Get PDF Metadata and Run AppleScript):
Takes the first 5 characters of the file name and adds it to a string and this creates the folder name we need becoming &quot;#####_Workers Compensation&quot; (See AppleScript.)

Steps 5-8 (Spotlight,Get Folder Contents, Filter Finder Items, Set Value of Variable):
Uses the newly created folder name to do a spotlight search as well as  filters down to a destination folder which we stored in a variable called 'Destination.

Steps 9-10 (Get Value of Variable and Move Finder Items):
Calls MovingFile variable and moves it to the Destination folder


Thanks for your help @red_menace it caused me to think outside of what I was trying to do.