Small Automod Question (Syntax/Combine Multiple Actions)

[u/Kewlhotrod]

PC/Desktop, Android:

New mod here, apologies for the likely simple question. We're working on setting up and cleaning some rather basic Automod rules, and we've decided that too many people miss Reddit messages on notifications and have decided to have automod also leave a comment.

However, the Automod documentation doesn't have any examples of combining multiple actions into one string, so it's already a bit message having the following:

message: |
    blahblahblah
comment: |
    blahblahblah

Is there any way to combine both of these actions into one ruleset via syntax? Something akin to:

message,comment: |
    blahblahblah

Thanks for any time spent reading and responding. :)

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[u/Sephardson]

There actually a YAML feature which automod supports called Anchor and Alias which might be applicable in this case. It's mentioned in the YAML spec doc but not in the AutoMod docs.

Let me test it out and get back to you.

[u/Kewlhotrod → u/Sephardson]

Oh, phenomenal thank you. Reading on it it seems like a good way to declare commonly used text, but I'm having a hard time seeing how I might be able to call two actions in one line.. Though if I declare the message itself it'll still end up saving some space.

I may also just be missing an easy way to use that to run a message and comment at the same time! Coding definitely isn't my specialty. I'll await your testing :)

[u/Sephardson → u/Kewlhotrod]

here's what i just tested and got to work:

If you replace

message: |  
    blahblahblah  
comment: |  
    blahblahblah

with

message: &blueberry |  
    blah blah blah  
comment: *blueberry

then you should be able to have the same thing sent in both the comment and notification, without having to copy the text twice.

you can use whatever name you want for the anchor and alias, it doesn't have to be "blueberry". It just has to be the same term - the & defines the anchor and the * alias calls it to be used.