"No Named Profiles Exist" - huh?

[markp99]

I am trying to have create a basic Task to control a Profile (On/Off).

From the new Task: "+ > Tasker > Profile Status", clicking the search icon returns "No Named Profiles Exist", even though profiles with custom names actually do exist.

I could swear I had this working in recent attempt, but LOST after a factory reset on my Pixel XL phone. I tried from another device (Tablet), but get the same result.

I suspect I may just be using the wrong approach to complete this Task.

Any suggestions to proceed?

Thx!

 

[Thom]

Welcome to Android Forums.

I could not duplicate your problem. For me a list appears and I can choose on.

After you created the profiles did you do an Exit/Save First? This assures that all parts of Tasker are applying the update. If you don't you can get some strange results.

Trying ...
Flash %PACTIVE
... might provide some added insight.

... Thom

 

[markp99]

Thanks Thom,

Yep, saving/restarting/rebooting are among of the many things I tried.

Strangely enough, my Profiles are now appearing in the list. Only thing I can imagine that changed is I created a couple very simple/basic profiles, renamed the profile entries and each associated task.

Everything seems to be working as expected now.

Mark

 

[Thom]

When you make any change (no matter how simple it seems) ... go to the top level of the section and choose Exit and the n choose Save First.

My ASSUMPTION is that this was the cause.

Reloading Tasker without the Save First having been done can induce some even more confusing situations.

... Thom

 

[Thom]

I have encountered something STRANGE that seems to be similar to you problem.

I created a profile that when the %TRUN global variable changes and if it is different form a global variable I created. If it does it fires the enter task to save the new value and print it.

I changed the name of the global variable from Tasks to tlaTasks.

After I did that it no longer invoked the enter task. It turned green but the enter task never ran.

If I went to the enter task and ran it ran correctly.

I did an Exit with Save First.
I did a power off/power on.
I did a Wipe Cache Partition.

It never worked.

When I changed tlaTasks back to Tasks everywhere ... it tan.

Something internal in Tasker was apparently not getting updated.

... Thom

 

[Thom]

Mine was caused by a condition that I was not aware of.

The variable had to be initialized to some value before it could be compared against another variable. It essentially has no value until that point.

My solution was to change ...

Profile: New
State: Variable Value [ %New !~ %TRUN
Enter: Anon
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%New To:%TRUN Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
A2: Flash [ Text:%New Long:Off ]
.... to ...

Profile: New
State: Variable Value [ %New !~ %TRUN | %New !Set ]
Enter: Anon
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%New To:%TRUN Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
A2: Flash [ Text:%New Long:Off ]

... Thom