Action List Syntax
(What the Stuff in the Action List Looks Like)

When you add an action, it appears in the action list in a specific format, or syntax. This syntax was designed to make it easy to tell at a glance what each action does.

For most actions, the syntax will be something like:

<category>.<action name>(<a short list of some of the action's settings>)

Some actions produce a result, which is to say that they produce a value that gets assigned to a variable. For those actions, the syntax will be more like:

<variable> = <category>.<action name>(<a short list of some of the action's settings>)

Some actions are object-specific. For these actions, the <category> part will be the object type, with the name of the actual object in question added between square brackets, giving it the following syntax:

<object type>[<object name>].<action name>(<short list of the action's settings>)

(seem complicated?)

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