Hello,

 

I have a few programs with "IF" statements that should only be evaluated when called by another program. This works perfectly when I set the programs to disabled, however it's a bit of an inconvenience keeping track of which programs should / should not be disabled. (I frequently disable programs for testing, etc.).

 

So...as a more elegant solution, I figured I'd put all of these programs in a folder and set the folder condition to something that never evaluates as true. I assumed this would have the same effect as disabling the programs, however apparently not. The programs in this folder never run - even when explicitly called by another program.

 

So here's the question - is this the way it's supposed to work? If so, it seems a bit counter-intuitive that enable/disable would function differently from a folder condition that evaluates to true/false...but maybe that's just me. In any case, if this is indeed how things are supposed to function, an option to disable an entire folder (or allow programs in a "false" folder to run when explicitly called) would be great!

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

- Brian

Hello Brian,

 

That is a keen observation, but indeed that is the way it was intended to function. When a folder condition is false, programs within that folder will not run no matter how triggered.

 

As to a disable folder function, or changing the running of direct-called programs within disabled folders, I leave that to the programmers...

Hi Darrell,

 

Thanks for the fast reply - great support as always!

 

 

- Brian

I have a few programs with "IF" statements that should only be evaluated when called by another program. This works perfectly when I set the programs to disabled

 

i guess I'm missing something here.

 

After reading this, I disabled a program that's called from another program. It no longer worked. So, I set it back to enabled.

 

Not sure if it always evaluates as "false", or returns the last condition from when it WAS enabled.

Hi jtara92101,

 

You can view the Last Run Time on the Program Summary panel.

 

Rand