Self-Cancelling Rules & Actions
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Self-Cancelling Rules & Actions |
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By setting an action or rule to nothing as the last of a set of chained tasks, it can be self-cancelling. This can be done as part of the rule/action itself and can help to avoid unwanted repetion/looping. It is more normally needed with rules than actions as rules run every agent update cycle.
Consider this rule:
$Color="blue";$Rule="";
When the rule is run, the note's $Color is set to 'blue' and the Rule is set to nothing. Thus the $Color assignment is run once-only before the rule ceases to exist.
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