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Boolean test not working in onAdd action

Agents, Actions and Automation
#1

I have a ‘meetings’ prototype that contains a boolean called $Actions

‘meetings’ has the following onAdd action that isn’t working as intended ( If $Actions in meetings is true I want any children created to be of tasks prototype and if false to be of agenda item prototype

if($Actions==true){$Prototype="Task"}else{$Prototype="AgendaItem"};

I’ve tried combos of If($Actions){…} and if(!$Actions){…} etc but to no avail - The boolean state test seems to be ignored - not crucial but I thought it was going to be a fairly easy test :thinking:

#2

Code in on OnAdd runs on the (new) child note. Thus:

if($Actions==true)

Is testing the new child’s $Actions value. But your intent is to check the $Actions for the container note, i.e. the parent of the new child. Which means you want to test if($Actions(parent)==true).

So broken out with line breaks to show the branching:

if($Actions(parent)==true){
   $Prototype="Task";
}else{
   $Prototype="AgendaItem";
};

The above works for me in v9.2.1, macOS 12.4.0

#3

The OnAdd action is run when the note is created, or when it is moved into the container. So, if you make a note and then set $Actions to true, the OnAdd will already have run.

What you might want is an agent.

Query: inside(…your container…)
Action: if($Actions==true){$Prototype=“Task”}else{$Prototype=“AgendaItem”};

#4

Perfect - Irritating I didn’t spot that - many thanks Mark A