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Static Actions

While Shesmu is mostly about the olives, it does run actions and it can be convenient to do that directly. These can be actions generated manually or using the olive simulator.

To use the simulator:

• Go to Tools, Olive Simulator and write a script to generate the desired actions
• From the Actions tab, click Download to save the resulting actions.
• Place this file, ending in .actnow into Shesmu’s configuration directory.

These new actions will be visible in the Actions dashboard. Since they aren’t connected to any olive, they will not be on the Olives page. They will be listed as coming from the .actnow file and the Olive Source filter on the Actions page can find all actions from that file.

Files can contain different kinds of actions.

The actions in the file are fixed. If they need to be updated in any way, the file can be replaced or edited to include new actions, but Shesmu will never modify the file.

If it is desirable to generate the file manually (or edit the output from the simulator), the .actnow file is a JSON array of the actions to launch. Each action has the following format:

{
  "name": "action_name",
  "parameters": {
     parameter values
  }
}

The "name" is the fully qualified name for the action (i.e., the name as it appears on the Definitions → Actions page) and the parameters are encoded in the standard Shesmu way.

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