Current Action Bugs and Their Workarounds
Posted by Aleksei on 12/02/23
Hello! So there are two hurdles with running action code people tend to run into that have some workarounds. It comes up on the Info channel regularly enough that I thought I'd post about the two issues and how to avoid or work around them if you encounter them!
FIRST SCENARIO: YOU ARE USING A PERSONAL ACTION FOR A CRISIS AND IT WANTS AN ORG
In this scenario, you would be using a personal action to contribute to a crisis. The basic logic of this would be that the crisis ID# should serve as the required plot ID#. HOWEVER, currently there's a bug wherein if you set the crisis # on the action first, before you invite people, it will no longer allow you to invite people, as it wants you to set an org for the action first, as if it were an org action. But it's not!
THE WORKAROUND: If you've already started an action and hit this bug, you may need to entirely cancel the action and restart it; just make sure to copy all your action content so you can easily paste it back! When you create your new action, in the action/newaction set, use the plot ID of any PERSONAL PLOT (the items that show up when you type 'plots' by itself). Any plot should do. Set up your other action info at that point, and then invite your action assistants. Before you submit the action, use the 'action/crisis' command to set the associated plot back to the appropriate crisis ID#! GOOD JOB, you've fooled the code.
SECOND SCENARIO: YOU ARE TRYING TO SET A PLOT OR CRISIS ID# AND NOTHING HAPPENS
In this scenario, you have likely used the 'action/newaction' command without including a plot/crisis ID#. When you later try to use action/plot or action/crisis to attach the action to a plot or crisis...nothing happens! Not even error feedback. Rude.
THE WORKAROUND: You're gonna have to restart your action entirely. Copy your content, action/cancel the action, and start fresh. But THIS time, use the full syntax for creating an action: action/newaction <plot #>=<story of action>. The important thing here is that you include the plot/crisis ID in the /newaction step, rather than adding it separately.
If you have any questions, feel free to hit up the Info channel! Or if you notice I got any facts wrong in here, just let me know and I can update the post.
FIRST SCENARIO: YOU ARE USING A PERSONAL ACTION FOR A CRISIS AND IT WANTS AN ORG
In this scenario, you would be using a personal action to contribute to a crisis. The basic logic of this would be that the crisis ID# should serve as the required plot ID#. HOWEVER, currently there's a bug wherein if you set the crisis # on the action first, before you invite people, it will no longer allow you to invite people, as it wants you to set an org for the action first, as if it were an org action. But it's not!
THE WORKAROUND: If you've already started an action and hit this bug, you may need to entirely cancel the action and restart it; just make sure to copy all your action content so you can easily paste it back! When you create your new action, in the action/newaction set, use the plot ID of any PERSONAL PLOT (the items that show up when you type 'plots' by itself). Any plot should do. Set up your other action info at that point, and then invite your action assistants. Before you submit the action, use the 'action/crisis' command to set the associated plot back to the appropriate crisis ID#! GOOD JOB, you've fooled the code.
SECOND SCENARIO: YOU ARE TRYING TO SET A PLOT OR CRISIS ID# AND NOTHING HAPPENS
In this scenario, you have likely used the 'action/newaction' command without including a plot/crisis ID#. When you later try to use action/plot or action/crisis to attach the action to a plot or crisis...nothing happens! Not even error feedback. Rude.
THE WORKAROUND: You're gonna have to restart your action entirely. Copy your content, action/cancel the action, and start fresh. But THIS time, use the full syntax for creating an action: action/newaction <plot #>=<story of action>. The important thing here is that you include the plot/crisis ID in the /newaction step, rather than adding it separately.
If you have any questions, feel free to hit up the Info channel! Or if you notice I got any facts wrong in here, just let me know and I can update the post.