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Improved actions

MatjaLipuMatjaLipu Member
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I am suggesting to improve action capabilities.

Here is a list
  • async parallel & sequential actions
  • sorting of conditions & actions
  • action tokens (output for input of next action)
Some other suggested improvements
  • complex condition logic (and/or/nested)
  • add token types (text, number, url, email...)
  • new argument types (eg url, email), useful for validation feedback

Example: Play youtube video on chromecast

We have two actions:
1. Fetch Youtube video
  • which can be auto complete preselected video
  • live search from query token or text
  • random from playlist
  • etc.
It has an output (token) with resulting URL.

2. Play any supported media on chromecast (it has one argument: URL) in our example token from Youtube action

Actions are async & sequental.

We've built something similar at Celtra.
Take a look at video and seek to 3:20 where you can see events and actions.
https://vimeo.com/35588252
You can have multiple events and multiple actions for each event.
Actions are async and can execute in mixed order of parallel & sequence.
Some actions can have nested actions (actually core parallel & sequential are actions with nested actions)

With this concepts we get very powerful tool to build complex flows.

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