Hide root when unavailable

[mathieson]

Hello,

I have a suggestion with regards to root. Could you please hide actions/triggers that require root when root is disabled in the preferences?

That way when searching for actions/triggers Automagic will only show the ones that are available.

Thanks!

[Martin]

Hi,

I don't like to hide features since it usually leads to more support requests when stuff is available on one device but not on another. There are also some actions that only require root when some options in the action are set.
I could show trigggers/actions with a strike-through text in the list when an action is known to be unavailable for some reason (root required, wrong Android version, wrong ROM etc.). I add this to the todo-list.

Regards,
Martin

[MURTUMA]

I had similar request some time ago for actions that aren't supported by OS but itwas ignored. Currently I'm stuck on GB and there are a lot of things not supported by it. Would be great if you could expand the idea this too.

[Bushmills]

Maybe allowing user to pick triggers, conditions and actions from "palettes" of items, added (or removed) and organised (put into sequence) by user, could be a more general solution than merely hiding a fixed set of specific functions. By default, one of those palettes could contain the same items as the list of all available items, thereby not changing user interface in any way for those not inclined to customise that list.

[Martin]

A categorization of triggers/conditions/actions is something that's on my todo-list, unfortunately I still did not have the time to look into this yet.
Regardless of categorization, showing the items with a strike through text and maybe a filter check box like 'Hide Unavailable' would work. I just don't like the idea to completely hide some items on certain devices since this will almost certainly lead to questions when all the nice actions are missing on one device but show up on another.

[Bushmills]

But what is "unavailable" - same as one could root a device to make those unavailable root-requiring functions available, one could create a dropbox account to enable those dropbox related functions - of course those will have to be "unavailable" too as long the account hasn't been created ...

[Martin]

That's true, especially for actions that require root. Items that are not available because of some more static reason like an old Android version seems to be quite unproblematic to me.

[MURTUMA]

An interesting choise of a word, Martin; "unproblematic". Just to be sure that the meaning of it doesn't get lost in translation, do you mean that you have no problem in implementing that in future?

The check box filter sounds good, because I think the base for this request was to make element lists less cluttered.

[Martin]

With "unproblematic" I mean that it looks technically feasible to me so I've added it to the todo-list. I don't promise anything yet since it looks like it might take a few weeks to fix everything that's currently not working properly on Android 5