Skip Condition

Overview

The Skip condition is one of the most commonly used conditions in the Package Editor. It provides a simple way to control whether an activity should be executed, allowing you to skip an activity when specific conditions are met or not met.

Although the Skip condition is not available as a selectable option within the Package Editor, it can be added manually to any activity you use in your package by including a Skip: property beneath the task: field.

See Example below:

- task: example1
skip: true

- task: example2
skip: false

Example of Usage

Below is a simple example on how you can use the skip condition in your activity

- task: get_user_details
reference: user

- task: send_welcome_message
skip: =user.isInactive # Example of the syntax: skip: =reference.property

Another example to show how the Skip condition can be used to drive different outcomes within your automation based on specified conditions.

# Pia Automation Package
conditions: 
- name: 'client_filter' 
  optMode: 'OptOut'
  category: 'Hello World'

- name: 'chat' 
  option_button: 'Skip Example'
  option_text: 'Skip Example'
  option_category: 'Pia Chatbot Category'

steps:
- task: chat_interaction
  alias: 'example_form'
  inputs:
    text: 'Do you want to skip?'
    form_name: 'yes_no_form'
    form_display_mode: 'Embed'

- task: chat_interaction
  skip: =example_form.form.Response #Direct reference of a property from the form
  inputs:
    text: "If you see this, we didnt skip using condition 1 (=example_form.form.Response)"

- task: chat_interaction
  alias: 'example_form_two'
  inputs:
    text: 'Do you want to skip due to some other reason?'
    form_name: 'yes_no_form'
    form_display_mode: 'Embed'

- task: chat_interaction
  skip: =example_form2.form.Response #Direct reference of a property from the form
  inputs:
    text: "If you see this, we didnt skip using condition 2 (=example_form2.form.Response)"

#Note: this entire inline could be bypassed as the value in response is already a True/False
- task: inline_powershell 
  alias: 'skip_processor'
  inputs:
    form: =example_form.form.Response 
    form2: =example_form_two.form.Response
    script: |
        return @{
            condition1 = $form -eq 'True'
            condition2 = $form2 -eq 'True'
        }

- task: chat_interaction
  skip: =skip_processor.condition1
  inputs:
    text: "If you see this, we didnt skip using condition 1 (=skip_processor.condition1)"

- task: chat_interaction
  skip: =skip_processor.condition2
  inputs:
    text: "If you see this, we didnt skip using condition 2 (=skip_processor.condition2)"

# You can combine skips with the following syntax to do an `or` statement
- task: chat_interaction
  skip: '{=skip_processor.condition1},{=skip_processor.condition2}'
  inputs:
    text: "If you see this neither skip applied"
    form_display_mode: 'Embed'