I can't find two action commands that are documented in 5.3.2, and just wanted to find out if they are available.
One is Find(), and the other is IsInList().
What I am trying to do is take a String List, and Search for a substring, and if found, provide the Index of it within the String List.  Maybe there is a better way than using these two commands, so if you know of one, that would be great.
If a command exists purely to return a status, then it will only be available in the If/If-Then section, because it really is only useful to use in a conditional statement. Some commands are useful in both ways. One that are only useful for conditionals are ones that don't have any effect. I.e. they don't change anything, they just return information about something. So calling them without reacting to their result is sort of meaningless. Some do have some effect, but they also return a value that you can use if you choose to, so they'd show up in the If bits and under the Commands section.
It shows the date, number of runs, and time run.  I want to find the data shown in parentheses for the last 7 days.  I can use an If statement with IsInList() with the dates for the last 7 days, and if true, then I want to know which token number it is.  Is there a command like the GetEnumOrdinal() command for string lists to get the token number?  This string list will grow over time, so I would need to get the token number, then do some string manipulation to pull out the information within parentheses.  
If there is a command for this, I couldn't find it.  I could always count back from the last token, and then check to see if it is in the list, and do it that way, but it would be cleaner if I could get the number from a search of the date value.
For that kind of stuff, the action system isn't optimal. That's stuff really better done in CML. So basically you need to search that list for the day that represents 7 days ago, then move forward for seven days, grabbing the data? What is that data? Is that hours, minutes and seconds? Are you going to ultimately want to just add those up for a final hours, minutes and seconds?
(09-13-2018, 09:05 AM)Dean Roddey Wrote: For that kind of stuff, the action system isn't optimal. That's stuff really better done in CML. So basically you need to search that list for the day that represents 7 days ago, then move forward for seven days, grabbing the data?  What is that data? Is that hours, minutes and seconds? Are you going to ultimately want to just add those up for a final hours, minutes and seconds?
Yes just want to add those numbers to show the 7 days and the previous month - probably the run times also, which is the number before the parentheses.  I will make a stab at it with the method I mentioned and see how it works.  I am really not ready to tackle CML after seeing other examples - even though I was a C programmer back in the day, that was 30 years ago, and lets just say - alot of beer destroyed any memory of that. 
(09-30-2018, 08:38 AM)Dean Roddey Wrote: Did you ever work this out?
I did, and you were correct, the Action system wasn't great, but since I am running this scheduled trigger one time a day at midnight to collect the percentages and store them in a variables driver, I wasn't as concerned about the size of the action, and I got it to work.
Essentially, using the RunTimer2 for each of the 3 HVAC Units I have, I parse out the runtime data for each of the last 30 days, then convert it to seconds, and then calculate the run times, percentages, and number of runs for the last day, last week, and last month.
