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Toggles - Split Actions

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Darragh

Ability to split actions so that action on 'make active' can be different to action on 'make inactive'.

April 4, 2020

Ben Haefele

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Ben Haefele

Merged in a post:

Additional Toggle actions

Ben Reynolds

Adding additional toggle actions without having to create multiple conditional actions to complete the same task.

September 14, 2020

Majdi Shihadeh

@Ben Haefele we need this

Ben Haefele

Merged in a post:

Option to trigger action on toggle

Darragh

Ability to add action on a toggle - ideally 2 options: 
1) When becomes checked...
2) When becomes unchecked...

February 18, 2020

May 23, 2020

Henry Gillman

i think an "IF ELSE" structure would fix this problem

Ben Haefele

@Darragh can you achieve this with conditional actions?

Darragh

@Ben Haefele: No, it doesn't seem so.  I've nearly gone mad trying!
The goal is to split actions on a toggle event - in English, let's say you want something to happen (eg, a notification) when a user follows another, or adds something to their favourites, but you don't want it to happen when they unfollow or remove the item from their favourites.  A use-case might be a user and some posts - there is a many-to-many relationship called 'favourite posts'.
If you try the 'intuitive' route (add first, remove later)
FIRSTLY: The add to favourites:
1) Set your action to run "Sometimes..." and only when the user's favourite posts does not contain
 the current post.
THEN: The remove from favourites:
2) Set your action to run "Sometimes..." (in the advanced settings) and only when the user's favourite posts contains
 the current post.
When you go to to add a post, it adds it, then instantly removes it because the second workflow steps are satisfied (the user's favourite posts contains the post).
If you reverse the workflow order, then it works fine to add a post (it ignores the remove step 1, because the user's favourite posts does not contain it), but when you go to remove a post, it does so, then promptly re-adds it because the conditions for the next step (favourite posts does not contain this post) are satisfied.

Elior Buskila

@Ben Haefele: @Darragh explanation is a bit long but I faced the same issue with my app, and this is really basic functionality for any app including like/favorite button.