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Ask for Input

Asks the user to type a value in a popup dialog and puts it on a port.

An action in the Ask the User group. Its type is action.dialog_input.

Port Label Flow Type
in in execution in —
confirmed When confirmed execution out —
cancelled When cancelled execution out —
timed_out When time runs out execution out —
message Question data in String
prefilled Prefilled data in String
value Value data out Any
Field Key Default Notes
Title title Easymatic —
Question message — —
Answer type answerType TEXT TEXT, NUMBER, WHOLE_NUMBER, YES_OR_NO, DATE_TIME
Prefilled prefilled — —
Hint hint — —
Multiple lines multiline false shown when answerType is TEXT
Confirm button confirmLabel OK —
Cancel button cancelLabel Cancel —
Give up after (seconds) timeoutSeconds 0 —
  • permission to draw over other apps

A missing permission is flagged in the editor rather than blocking the macro — the graph is fine, the phone is not, and granting it starts the node working with no edit here at all.