Return data from an Action

Need help Plugins
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Hello,

I am developing an Action within a plugin which needs to return 3 pieces of data to be inserted into a data type. I think the current plugin structure doesn’t allow for this, so I am wondering if there are any known work arounds?

Thanks

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it would really help a lot if we knew what plugin your looking to work with.

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Can you not push the 3 bits of data in a transparent elements custom states and the recover them from there to push into your data type…

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I just made the plugin open source. It integrates EasyCron with Bubble to allow more flexible scheduling. Link https://bubble.io/plugin_editor?id=1494746182091x849181320596684800

The Action is called FormatCRONTime, and it is essentially a way of taking a user provided time (hour/minutes/day of week) and their timezone (gmt offset in seconds). Then adjusting it to UTC time (provided your EasyCron account is set to UTC) to be used when calling EasyCron - Add API.

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I didn’t really want to go down this route, as it feels needlessly complicated. Are there any other workarounds?

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http://forum.bubble.io/t/building-an-action-help-sending-data/

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I ended up converting the Action into a Element and publishing 3 custom states as suggested by @DaveA.

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Its currently the cleanest way to return data to the workflow. Triggering an event is useful too, to get the right timing for when the data is available.