AutoNotification AutoNotification can't use all variables passed from other task

Hey guys,

I'm trying to pass variables between tasks and have them work in autoNotification. For the last few days, I've tried different ways of doing this, none fully successful.

The variables come across, but when I use them to create a new custom autoNotification, it looks like only %antitle and %antext are working in the notification. Any buttons or icons don't show up in the new custom autoNotification. If I add an autoNotifcationQuery in the variable receiving task it works, so the autoNotification seems to be set up correctly.

My current best setup is as follows (simplified for demonstration purposes):

TaskA: Gets all the needed AutoNotificationQuery variables and depending on certain criteria passes them to a specific next task with %par1,%par2. This is how it passes them on:

Code (Text):

A5: Perform Task [
Name:TaskB
Priority:%priority
Parameter 1 (%par1):%anid, %antitle, %anstatusbaricon, etc...
Parameter 2 (%par2):anid, antitle, anstatusbaricon, etc...
Return Value Variable: Stop:Off ]

TaskB: Creates a new notification based on the variables from TaskA, which it receives using AutoToolsText, like so:

Code (Text):

A2: AutoTools Text [ Configuration:
Text: %par1
Variable Name: %par2
Joiner Variable: atjoinedtext
Separator: , Timeout (Seconds):60 ]

If I use the variables without brackets in TaskA's Perform Task Action (i.e. %anid instead of %anid()), I can flash them correctly in TaskB, however the only ones that seem to get picked up are %antitle and %antext.

I've run out of ideas of how to fix this. Any ideas what might be going on?

thank you!

Yannick

 

Hi Joao,

Thanks for the quick reply. I just tried it, but unfortunately now AutoTools errors and no variables are coming through. :s

I'm getting the following error :

If I use %par2, I get variables coming through, so I guess the number of variables must to be the same.

That's strange. Is this what you meant for my new PartB?

Code (Text):

A2: AutoTools Text [ Configuration:
Text: %par1
Variable Name: par2
Joiner Variable: atjoinedtext
Separator: , Timeout (Seconds):60 ]

Thank you!

Yannick

 

Hey Joao,

no worries at all. The issue is that I can transfer certain variables between tasks, (when not using brackets), but they don't all work in the custom autoNotification.

Here is a full example of that...

TaskA:

Code (Text):

Test (39)
    A1: AutoNotification Query [ Configuration:Notification Apps: Google Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
    A2: Perform Task [ Name:ReceiveTaskVars Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1):%anid, %antitle, %antitlebig, %antext, %antextbig, %anicon, %anbigicon, %anstatusbaricon, %anbutton1text, %anbutton1icon, %anbutton1action, %anbutton2text, %anbutton2action, %anbutton2icon, %anbutton3text, %anbutton3action, %anbutton3icon, %anbutton4action, %anbutton4text, %anbutton4text, %anbutton5action, %anbutton5text, %anbutton5text, %antouchaction, %ancolor, %anstatusbaricon Parameter 2 (%par2):anid, antitle, antitlebig, antext, antextbig, anicon, anbigicon, anstatusbaricon, anbutton1text, anbutton1icon, anbutton1action, anbutton2text, anbutton2action, anbutton2icon, anbutton3text, anbutton3action, anbutton3icon, anbutton4action, anbutton4text, anbutton4text, anbutton5action, anbutton5text, anbutton5text, antouchaction, ancolor, anstatusbaricon Return Value Variable: Stop:Off ]

And the receiving TaskB:

Code (Text):

ReceiveTaskVars (18)
    A1: AutoTools Text [ Configuration:Text: %par1
Variable Name: %par2
Joiner Variable: atjoinedtext
Separator: , Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
    A2: Flash [ Text:%anid, %antitle, %antitlebig, %antext, %antextbig, %anicon, %anbigicon, %anstatusbaricon, %anbutton1text, %anbutton1icon, %anbutton1action, %anbutton2text, %anbutton2action, %anbutton2icon, %anbutton3text, %anbutton3action, %anbutton3icon, %anbutton4action, %anbutton4text, %anbutton4text, %anbutton5action, %anbutton5text, %anbutton5text, %antouchaction, %ancolor, %anstatusbaricon Long:Off ]
    A3: Variable Randomize [ Name:%notifId Min:0 Max:9999 ]
    A4: AutoNotification [ Configuration:Title: %antitle
Text: %antext
Action on Touch: notif_action %notifId=:=%antouchaction
Icon: %anicon
Status Bar Icon Manual: %anstatusbaricon
Background Color: %ancolor
Id: %notifId
Dismiss on Touch: true
Priority: 1
Title Expanded: %antitlebig
Text Expanded: %antextbig
Action Icon 1 Manual:
Icon 2: ic_launcher
Icon 3: ic_launcher
Icon 4: ic_launcher Timeout (Seconds):20 ]

Together these are able to transfer the variables, but unable to use them in a custom autoNotification,

Thanks!

Yannick

 

Hi Joao!

Thanks for the reply. It helped a lot, as I've been looking at this differently now, knowing that it should be working as is. I finally found what is going wrong!

1. I had spaces in my variable lists.

My lists had variables like this %antitle, %antext, etc... and antitle, antext, etc.... Since my separator was ',' it was keeping a space after every variable created with AutoToolsText. Removing the spaces or using the trim option worked.

2. My %antitle and %antext values sometimes included commas.

Since some notifications have commas in the %antitle or %antext values autoToolsText seemed to be further splitting my variables, resulting in the aforementioned error of the number of texts not matching the number of variables. Using a more unique separator worked to fix this.

It finally works. Thank for your help and have a good day!

Yannick