FEATURE REQUEST: "explicit mode"

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RogueSpear

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Aug 11, 2010, 9:30:43 PM8/11/10
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I read the rather large and ambitious TO DO list and searched within
this forum in an attempt to see if this was addressed already but
found nothing. I can't believe nobody has requested this so far, so I
will extend my apologies in advance if I managed to missed the topic.

I have found that relying on Tasker to revert a setting to a previous
state is not always reliable, particularly when more than one context
may be applicable. What I've resorted to is maintaining a series of
user defined variables to keep track of the state of various settings
such as WiFi being on or off, etc and then calling a series of what I
call "worker tasks" to apply the settings based on the variable
value. While this works for me better than relying on Tasker to
reverse a setting, I think it would work even better if Tasker had an
"explicit" mode where it did not try to help out by reverting settings
on it's own.

I honestly have a hard time determining when a problem is due to the
general flaky nature of Android itself, a possible bug with Tasker, or
an error of my own doing. I think that having such an explicit mode
may allow the user to at least eliminate one of those possibilities -
a bug in Tasker.

RogueSpear

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Aug 11, 2010, 9:39:57 PM8/11/10
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I'm officially confused a this point, but if I am understanding the
docs correctly, an exit task enables what I just requested above?

Please disregard my idiotic initial posting. I read every forum topic
and the to do list in the last 48 hours, but it had been weeks since I
read the official documentation.

Frog29

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Aug 12, 2010, 12:25:12 AM8/12/10
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Its a bit more complicated,
But to edit a setting without it being reverted, call a task that only
changes that setting.
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