Update Conditional Actions

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November 5, 2022
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I think that Conditional Actions are long overdue for some additions.

Conditional Actions only support two main categories of features – Document and Layer properties.

What other categories would you like to see added?

I think that checking for the existence of the following would make a good start:

Document - Has Spot Channels (specifically spot, not just generic alphas)
Document - Has Paths (not vector shape layer content)
Document - Has Clipping Paths (not only a path)
Layer - Is Text Layer

Or should these be split into new categories for Channels and Paths and not grouped under Document?

What would you like to see added? Please vote on the main topic and add your thoughts.

Some additional ideas here:

http://actionlogic.blogspot.com/2006/03/sivas-photoshop-conditional-action.html

Actions and scripting

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Since Adobe is going all-in on UXP, Action Manager and everything about it could use an overhaul. And that shouldn't mean tossing ExtendScript, either. There should be ONE IDE that handles all of it instead of ESTK oh wait VSCode oh wait UXP Developer Tools.

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Ben35899766u3wl

Participant

Nice suggestions. I think Layer Name equals or contains then you can enter the text value to check against would be great.

Layer is empty maybe a good shout too.

For me though the ability to add multiple cascading conditions in one step would be really beneficial.

For example:

If layer is visible = TRUE > Action 1
If layer has vector mask = FALSE > Action 2

If layer has pixle mask = TRUE > Action 3

IF layer is visible = FALSE > Action 4

A hidden hidden layer with no masks would run action 4..

Also a tick box to end the action at that step, rather that run the action and then complete the action with the conditional if one of the statements is true would really save time too.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Thank you, it is a sound Feature Request.

I wonder if Layer is in a clipping group or Layer is the base of a clipping group could be useful.