Design Pattern: Working with Groups in Rules

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@dastrix80

Thanks ill look into your suggestion. How have people previously delt with notifications that have different expire timers? One of my doors I want an alert after 1 minute, but the other is an hour.

I use separate Items with similar names (see Design Pattern: Associated Items) and the Expire binding. Each door would have it’s own Timer Item with a custom Expire for that door. The message gets a little tricky but I would probably skip the “for X minutes” in the alert message and just say “too long” or something generic as not worth the effort to implement.

@5iver

You’d need to use JSR223, but you can add this info (timer timeouts, notification text, etc.) into Item metadata and use it in your rule.

In Rules DSL you can dynamically add tags. It would be awkward but you can associated the message with the Item as a tag since metadata isn’t available in Rules DSL apparently.