Adobe Community: CS6 Action Toggling

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1. Noel Carboni,

Jul 2, 2012 4:24 AM in reply to Johnels

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Why are you feeling a need to turn off the "enabled" state of actions or steps? Really only action designers use those functions.

Perhaps you are misunderstanding how actions are normally meant to be run...

To simply run a recorded action, make the image you want to work on current, make sure you're on the layer you want to work on, then click once on the action name to highlight it. Now press the little > (play) button at the bottom of the Actions panel.

You would normally leave actions enabled all the time.

Oh, and the dialog you mention really IS a choice... You can press the [Cancel] button to avoid doing it, and avoiding doing it is very likely what you want.

-Noel

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2. Johnels,

Jul 2, 2012 4:46 AM in reply to Noel Carboni

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I think you're misunderstanding me.

1. I do create actions, and know how to run them.

2. My actions are often multi-step and run other sub-actions/commands.

3. Some commands in my sub-actions may be checked to run or not run depending on the situation.

In this new iteration of action control, enabling or disabling the parent action changes the state of all the actions below it to all on or all off, no matter what their previous state may have been.

This in my opionion is not right. I do not expect to turn off my parent action and have all steps within it disabled. Visa versa, when I turn it back on, I want the action's previous state, not everything back on.

And by 'choice', I mean:
"Toggle all commands?"
Yes - fine / No - leave it as I set it, thanks / Cancel - not now.

Or better still leave it like it was before. I do not even see why this dialogue box is relevant.

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3. PECourtejoie,

Jul 2, 2012 5:55 AM in reply to Johnels

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Hello!

I'm not on my CS6 machine here, and this might be useful:

On previous versions, if I have an action with many steps, and two disabled, clicking the set's run button would first enable the disabled steps, so that all steps are enabled.

Another click would disable all the steps for all the actions in the set.

The second action does not reset the two steps to disabled, leaving the other unaffected, like you would want it to work. This is in CS3, so you might mix this function with another one?

Or, according to what you describe, the first click does disable all steps, and you expect it to enable only the disabled ones like it used to do?

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4. Noel Carboni,

Jul 2, 2012 7:41 AM in reply to Johnels

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Johnels wrote:

In this new iteration of action control, enabling or disabling the parent action changes the state of all the actions below it to all on or all off, no matter what their previous state may have been.

I guess this is where you're losing me. The way you're describing it to work is the way I've known it to work for a while now. What version did you upgrade from?

-Noel

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5. Johnels,

Jul 2, 2012 8:09 AM in reply to Noel Carboni

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Noel, Pierre,

I think you see what I'm saying. I came to CS6 from CS5, and the actions are a loaded set from previous version. Maybe this is relevant.

When I turn of an action I do not expect any of the commands within it to be disabled/unchecked, simply the action itself to be switched off, until I want it on again, at which point I would renable it and all the commands should be in their previous state.

I will run some tests.

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6. Noel Carboni,

Jul 2, 2012 10:30 AM in reply to Johnels

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That's been exactly the same for quite a long time, and with the same warning dialog, though apparently it is not as you expect it to work.

The checkbox on the action name just affects all the checkboxes in all the steps underneath. Same thing for disabling the entire set (which I can't imagine needing to do, but that's the way it works).

I just tested it on every version back to Photoshop 6.0 (which did not prompt, but still affected the "enable" checkboxes in the same way). The prompt was introduced in Photoshop CS2: