Design Pattern: Associated Items

[rossko57]

@Dries

I would like my rule only to do stuff with the single item that was triggered.

It’s worth looking further in the Tutorials & Example forum section

Get the member of a Group that triggered the rule

Many run into a situation where they want to have a rule triggered by updates to a Group or have multiple Item triggers but want to know which Item triggered the rule. OH’s Rules DSL does not have this capability built in (I’m told the JSR233 Rules Engine does if you are on OH 1.x and good with JavaScript or Jython). There is a simple way to do this. Set up persistence on all the Items that can trigger the rule. If your rule is triggered by multiple Items instead of a Group, make sure the…