Confused about setting dictionary values

Claireon · February 21, 2020, 1:16am

I’m trying to change the value of a boolean dictionary value while a shortcut is running. I seem to be doing something wrong, but I’m not sure what.

jayelevy · February 21, 2020, 1:39am

Strange. The same steps (at least as far as I can tell) return the correct results for me. You may want to post a link to the actual shortcut.

drdrang · February 21, 2020, 2:26am

I suspect the Dictionary in the third step is referring to the magic variable of the first step instead of the second. I set up a shortcut that way and got the same “No” result:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/033f5afa3c68462dba7a7fc3ab7747fe

Claireon · February 21, 2020, 3:42pm

That seems to have been the issue. I cleared the ‘in Dictionary’ and set it to the dictionary from the set value result. It works now.

bseymore · February 21, 2020, 11:23pm

How’d you clear the first dictionary? Did you set and then reset a variable?

sylumer · February 22, 2020, 7:19am

They cleared the reference to the dictionary in the action and then selected the new dictionary. It wasn’t emptying the original dictionary.

If you are looking for a way to remove entries from a dictionary the Toobox Pro app has an Edit Dictionary action that can do this.