I just noticed you updated all of the ActionForge actions with a big number 6 to indicate FWP 6 compatibility, which is really, really helpful. 
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I was wondering if it also may be helpful for there to be another logo added to the compatibility options for actions on ActionsForge to indicate when an action is no longer required. I was thinking along the lines of ‘EOL’ (end of life) of something similar. Then when you see the list of icons beside an action name you would know whether or not you had to continue to use it or if it was no longer needed.
For example, when you view the FreezeFormItem action at http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/270-freezeformitem the compatible icons would read 4, 5, 5,5, EOL thus saying it is no longer needed in Freeway6 and above.
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On 01 Feb 2013, at 8:34 pm, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
I just noticed you updated all of the ActionForge actions with a big number 6 to indicate FWP 6 compatibility, which is really, really helpful.
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The Forge has to serve everyone, so remember that anything you don’t need in 6 you DO need in 5.5 and below. Once thing that would come in very handy is if someone would start a Wiki page on the Forge listing Actions you don’t need any more.
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On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Gordon Low wrote:
I was wondering if it also may be helpful for there to be another logo added to the compatibility options for actions on ActionsForge to indicate when an action is no longer required. I was thinking along the lines of ‘EOL’ (end of life) of something similar. Then when you see the list of icons beside an action name you would know whether or not you had to continue to use it or if it was no longer needed.
For example, when you view the FreezeFormItem action at http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/270-freezeformitem the compatible icons would read 4, 5, 5,5, EOL thus saying it is no longer needed in Freeway6 and above.
All the best
Gordon
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On 01 Feb 2013, at 8:34 pm, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
I just noticed you updated all of the ActionForge actions with a big number 6 to indicate FWP 6 compatibility, which is really, really helpful.
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I think an excellent way of genuinely thanking Walter and improving ActionsForge at the same time would be to reload this now defunct KickStater project:
Now that FW6 is out, it’s time for our community (which number far more than just 101 people) to consider promoting much needed improvements to the lifeblood of our Freeway experience — ACTIONS. Walter has long been the action-man behind Actions, and we should cast monetary support behind his fabulously beneficial efforts.
Once ActionsForge Next RELOADED is back on Kickstarter, I would implore the good folks at SoftPress to consider adding a highly noticeable link to that project from every page on ActionsForge. The more it’s advertised, the more backers it will certainly get.
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A general enquiry about Actions that has always puzzled me.
Why are some Actions preloaded with Freeway and others we are left to find for ourselves should the need for the functionality happen to occur to us?
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On 3 Feb 2013, 5:43 pm, John Cooper wrote:
A general enquiry about Actions that has always puzzled me.
Why are some Actions preloaded with Freeway and others we are left to find for ourselves should the need for the functionality happen to occur to us?
I think the ones included with FWP were written by softpress.
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There is a core set of Actions written by Softpress that are bundled into the Freeway application itself. It’s part of the modular construction of Freeway that I’ve always appreciated. If you don’t like the behavior of one of these bundled Actions, all you need to do is add a same-name Action in your Actions folder, and the core one will be overridden. This also lets Softpress release updates without revving the entire app, although they rarely do that.
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On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:43 PM, John Cooper wrote:
A general enquiry about Actions that has always puzzled me.
Why are some Actions preloaded with Freeway and others we are left to find for ourselves should the need for the functionality happen to occur to us?
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Ah! Seems strange, then, that they’re all in the same place. How does one know which are which; and how can users be updated of new ones by third party developers?
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That’s something we have been discussing for a number of years here. Ideally, there would be a startup hook in Freeway that would query the ActionsForge server (or some other central repository) for the latest versions of all installed Actions, and you would be alerted then. That was one of the objectives for the Kickstarter project of last summer (building the Forge-side portion of that, anyway).
There is a current API for checking updates, but nobody (even me) uses it at the moment. I’m not sure why it has fallen out of fashion. http://actionsforge.com/articles/view/3-version-checking
If you subscribe to this feed: http://actionsforge.com/forge/rss.xml you can get updates in your RSS reader for all Actions. Each individual Project in the Forge has its own feed as well.
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On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:09 PM, John Cooper wrote:
Ah!
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