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My confusion centers around screens like the two attached. When I modify an action/condition/trigger I get screens like the attached. I have no idea how to pick the options!
The screen above has choices that are unclear. Some actions, say a notification to the statusbar, may occur many times in the same flow, or it may occur in different flows. The Text and Message of the notification is different. What happens when I overwrite the notification I am currently working on? What will get overwritten? Will I lose other notification actions in the same flow? What does it mean to reuse the notification that I am currently working on?
The screen above also has unclear choices. Suppose that I had a script with one line in it: Sleep for 5m. I have similar scripts in several flows. Changing the sleep time to a different duration triggers the "Used multiple times" window. What if I choose "all usages?" Will it really change the time in every script with a sleep time of 5m?

Any clarification would help a lot. Thanks.

Hi

1) Automagic identifies triggers, conditions and actions by name so for example you can't have two different actions with the exact same name. Assume you have an action named 'Notification XYZ'. When you define another action with the exact same name, the question pops up whether you want to use/keep the existing action 'Notification XYZ' instead of the one you've just defined or if you want to replace the existing action with the new one.

2) Assume you have flows A and B that use action 'Notification XYZ'. When you edit the action in flow A and save it, Automagic asks if you want to modify the action everywhere (in flow A and B) or if you want to modify only flow A. It can also happen that you use the same action twice within the same flow so the dialog will look like the one you've posted.

Regards,
Martin

Thanks for the response. It was very helpful. It would seem that my “problem” would disappear if I always chose unique names. Correct?

Having 10 differently named actions which all do the same is pretty wasteful, compared to a single action, reused everywhere.