Action cannot be used in this process - why not?

[RedVox]

I am trying to create a bot that will include a number of actions.  I'm getting an error message saying that these actions cannot be used in this bot.  Why not?  The error doesn't give any clues.  The bot is triggered, not scheduled.  Each of the actions updates a table.  What sort of restrictions are there on including actions within a bot?

  

[RedVox]

Tried a bunch of experiments.  Nothing changing.

[RedVox]

Bump for this question.  I'm really quite stuck & quite curious.

[scott192]

I would guess that you created the bot a while back and it worked and you have just come back to edit the bot and changed the Table that the event is checking?

The Table that the event runs on is the same table that your actions need to be created on.

For each of the stated actions that cannot be run, check which table they are associated with and compare to your Event in your bot.  Are they the same?

[RedVox]

Thanks Scott, your question about whether or not the actions were for the same table as the table referenced in the bot seems to have been the question I needed to ask.  After doing some table redesign, it's all working against the same table and working fine.  But just to confirm... Is it true that a bot cannot fire actions for tables other than the table that triggers the bot?  If so, I'm surprised that the bot displays the full list of actions for all tables and/or doesn't throw a more informative error message when this occurs.  

[scott192]

It's mostly true.  All of the actions available on the table the bot is attached to are available to be called in the bot (apart from ones that change view and so on) but you can also call processes from other bots on other tables as well now.  See Steps:The Essentials and Calling a Process

[RedVox]

Thanks but I’m not really understanding. I don’t see anywhere on that page
that clarifies whether tasks are constrained by table when included in a
bot. You mention processes, but to achieve the same outcome with saved
processes, those processes would really just be different wrappers for the
same saved tasks.

[Markus_Malessa]

We need some detail on how your event is set up. Then possibly how your process is configured. Screenshots will probably do unless formulas are cut off, also redact any info you may not want to share here like emails , etc.