I made a macro requiring over 300 steps and it WORKS! Here's what I learned

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@alltiagocom

• Actions that require a stop such as "Pause Until", "Alert", "Prompt for User Input", etc, are colored red.
• All the other actions are green, because they are just running without stopping.
• All the conditional actions (or loops) are yellow such as "Switch", "If Then", etc.
• Any action that is related to setting/changing a variable are purple, just because it is the color I associate with the purple X icon that's set as the default for the variable actions
• The comments are teal and the groups are pink/magenta, for no particular reason.

Very handy post here.

Demo: Scripting nested actions

Scripting nested actions is tricky. A recent thread full of helpful and very kind posts resulted in a pair of handlers for for making the task easier.

Link

<a href="https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/feature-request-to-include-the-macro-group-of-the-target-macro-besides-its-name-in-the-execute-macro-macro/10885/14" class="inline-onebox">[Feature Request] To include the Macro Group of the target macro besides its name, in the "Execute Macro" macro - #14 by ti…