Using a script Action in the Paper UI rule editor

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

When you use ‘execute a given script’ for the Action…

… you need to select the Script Type from the available ScriptEngineFactories and then enter the actual script into the editor. This action does not read script files and it does not work with rule DSL scripts.

Read through this series of tutorials, but you will be much better off using scripted automation until the UI is built out in OH 3.0…

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 1 of : Introduction

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB EDIT: This is getting too long for one posting. I’ve split it up (thanks @ysc’s write-up for HABot for giving me the idea). This is a series of postings to start writing and gathering what we know works and what doesn’t yet work in the Rul…