AutoNotification Missing %antitle for some apps when querying

The task I’m trying to accomplish is to read all active notifications, then filter out certain apps, and store the anapp, antitle, and antext in a file. My problem occurs in the following case:
• I use AN Query to query all non-persistent notifications
• For reasons I have not figured out yet, some apps (such as Clock) will create two entries, with their anapp | antitle | antext as follows:
1. Clock | Upcoming alarm | Wed 12:30 PM
2. Clock | %antitle2 | %antext2
• This is fine and maintains the correct array sizes, EXCEPT when Clock is the “last” notification in these arrays. In this case, “%antext2” is written in the antext array, but “%antitle2” is NOT written into the antitle array – it is simply not included in the array. This will create anapp and antext arrays that have one more entry n them than antitle.
• Next, when I try to use AutoTools to perform filters and sorting on these arrays, I receive an error “Arrays to filter must be of same size” and the task fails to complete.

Anybody have a solution to this?

Thanks,
Jin

 

I currently have 2 notifications, CNN and Clock. I get strange results depending on if I flash the full array or just the last variable:

Input: Flash "%anapp();%antitle()"
Output: "CNN,Clock,Clock;News alert,Upcoming alarm"

Input: Flash "%antitle3"
Output: "%antitle3"

The problem still occurs though when I write the arrays to a file. The %antitle() line does not contain a third element.

 

Thanks, that seemed to do the trick!

I also have a few questions about using AutoTools with AN arrays that I can't seem to figure out:
1) The Filtering > Unique doesn't seem to work for me.
Say I have AutoTools configured as follows after doing an AN query:
Input Arrays: %anapp()|%antitle()|%antext()
Output Arrays: filterapp|filtertitle|filtertext
Filtering > Unique: checked

When I flash %filterapp() I still see two values for Clock.
Am I missing how Unique is supposed to function? Does it filter on the entire combined input row, not just the value in the first array?

2) I can't figure out what to put in the Filtering > Filter field, depending on what I put it either keeps all values in the array or none of them. For example, if I put "Clock" into that field, it keeps the whole array intact. If I put "clock" then it keeps no values in the arrays. What would I put in there if I want to filter OUT all "Clock" values from %anapp()?

 

1) I don't see any differences at all when I flash @filterapp(1) and @filterapp(2), or when I write it to a file, so I have no idea what's going on.
2) Are you planning to implement a NOT filter at some point? I think that would be very useful.