learning more about auto actions

Hello,

This is just a general question about what is the best current way to learn about how to take advantage of all the triggers and abilities of the auto actions plugin (which is awesome, btw). I apologize in advance if I've overlooked some documentation. I did watch the auto actions videos and look at the auto actions print documentation available at the Support tab.

So, I have an auto action jumping off of onCPayUserStateChange. I found very helpful information about it posted in the forum by Kyle here:

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/255-developer-members-support/240780-add-and-remove-usergroups-based-off-subscription#311562

Among other things, Kyle explained you could use this trigger to move members into multiple usergroups upon subscription (and do other stuff) with the following inputs:

Plan Active
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
1: [var3] Equal To PLAN_ID_HERE
2: [var2] Equal To A

My question is just: if I had wanted to figure that out for myself, where would I look? For example, while I understand -- only because of Kyle's example -- that [var3] must be the plan id and [var2] must be the status of the subscription (and have now looked and found the related fields in the #__cbsubs_subscriptions table) I don't know how I could have learned to use var3 or var2, or what "[var3]" and "[var2]" are in the context of the onCPayUserStateChange trigger, or that they are passed upon it in the first place, etc., on my own. Any suggestions?

There are so many triggers available, I'm curious how to explore what they can do and how to use them.

Thanks!

My question is just: if I had wanted to figure that out for myself, where would I look? For example, while I understand -- only because of Kyle's example -- that [var3] must be the plan id and [var2] must be the status of the subscription (and have now looked and found the related fields in the #__cbsubs_subscriptions table) I don't know how I could have learned to use var3 or var2, or what "[var3]" and "[var2]" are in the context of the onCPayUserStateChange trigger, or that they are passed upon it in the first place, etc., on my own. Any suggestions?

You'd need to check the documentation below to find the available variables in a trigger. You can then substitute in those variables using [var1-10]. So using the above as example variable 3 is the plan id so you'd substitute it in with [var3] while variable 2 is the state the user is changing to for that plan so you'd substitute it in with [var2].

www.joomlapolis.com/documentation/279-community-builder/tutorials/18358-using-cb-triggers

The documentation for CB Auto Actions is a bit lacking admittedly, but it's mostly a tool for implementing usecases so there's not much we can document beyond usecase examples. We'll be trying to improve our trigger documentation in the future once we add phpdoc in our code for every trigger that describes them and their variables so we can more easily generate documentation for them.

Thank you Kyle, that is exactly what I needed!