Auto Action Documentation re: Conditions

Dear All,

Can someone point me in the direction of the documentation for auto actions and how to configure conditions.

I want to be able to change a users access group when an administrator changes a CB field to show that they have given up their membership.

Regards,

Chris.

There is no documentation for CB Auto Actions. Review the parameter descriptions carefully. As it's a tool there's not much to document beyond usecase tutorials, which may or may not be relevant to your usage. You can find a few usecase tutorial videos below.

www.youtube.com/user/Joomlapolis/playlists

I want to be able to change a users access group when an administrator changes a CB field to show that they have given up their membership.

You'll need to act on the after update user and after user update triggers. You'd then need to condition against the fields value like the following example.

1: [var1_FIELD_NAME] Not Equal To [var3_FIELD_NAME]
2: [FIELD_NAME] Equal To 1

Using the above 2 conditions for example you're first making sure the field changed. You're then checking if it changed its value to 1. If this was a checkbox field for example it'd be checked. You can change the usergroups a user has using the Usergroups action.

How does anyone know that you have to use var1 and var3 to compare the field before and afterwards if there is no documentation? Are there other variables that one should know about?

1: [var1_FIELD_NAME] Not Equal To [var3_FIELD_NAME]
2: [FIELD_NAME] Equal To 1

Will this work from the backend? i.e. if an administrator changes something in the admin interface?

Regards,

Chris.

Can you also give us some more information regarding the "Translate" "Format" and "Prepare" checkboxes.

What do they do and are they required in our case to change the Group.

Regards,

Chris.

How does anyone know that you have to use var1 and var3 to compare the field before and afterwards if there is no documentation? Are there other variables that one should know about?

You can find what variables triggers provide by reviewing CBs source code or checking the below tutorial. We'll eventually make it easier to find trigger variables, but we currently don't have a solution beyond the below.

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

Will this work from the backend? i.e. if an administrator changes something in the admin interface?

Yes, the condition is just making sure the FIELD_NAME has changed its value from its previous value and that it has changed to 1.

Can you also give us some more information regarding the "Translate" "Format" and "Prepare" checkboxes.

Mouse over the info icons next to their labels as they explain what each does.