How to pass macro values in chained tasks?

questions
1

In one of your videos, you said macros are important for chained tasks, but you didn’t show any examples of how this is done.

Can you please elaborate how to pass macro values from 1 task to another when chaining tasks?

2

Currently not possible to pass anything between tasks.

Rather you chain by exporting to a folder, then chain task reads from that folder.

However some things need more control.

Eg export urls from scraper task into dynamic scraper url box.

Can’t do it right now, but if you could it would be awesome.

What did you want to do?

3

I think it would be as simple as making the macros global in nature until the chain ends … no?

4

Oh … I just realized that you aren’t iterating through the tasks individually by keyword … you are completing all keywords in bulk, then going onto the next task.

So how do you keep track which article files you processed on subsequent tasks?

I think it might have been wiser to iterate by keyword:
Keyword#1 → Article Creator → Scrape Image → etc → Post to WP/Email/XML …

then iterate to the next keyword…
Keyword#1 → Article Creator → Scrape Image → etc → Post to WP/Email/XML …

and so on.

That’s what I thought you were doing.

5

Think of each task as separate.

For chain tasks, all it does is run task a, then task b.

For the article creator, it means completing all items in the keyword list. Then it finishes and starts the chain task.

Chain tasks only run once the parent task ‘finishes’ and this is displayed as status ‘done’

As you discovered it will do all keywords and download all content to hard drive, then it runs the post uploader afterwards.