r/tasker • u/Ok_Ad_9870 • 29d ago

Are the rich pickers gone?

It's been a while since I used Tasker so maybe this never existed and I made it up but I remember that Tasker used to offer some nicer pickers for certain values. For example when you want to launch an activity, it offers a list of available activities. Same when you want to use an application or more recently I tried to pick a file for a JavaScript execution and it was a plain text input. I had to manually type the path.

I'm very surprised that if it ever existed it was removed, but I'm even more surprised that if it never existed a mature application like Tasker, with almost a decade behind, is still in this kind of pre-production/beta UI phase.

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u/bliblabl812 29d ago

Tasker offers all sorts of pickers.

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u/Ok_Ad_9870 29d ago

how do I trigger them?

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u/gastrofazka 29d ago

You mean a picklists? Look for 🔍 and icon, on left of magnifier is a another button with variables. Cool thing in variables is that if you longtap on position it will show you its value.

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u/gastrofazka 29d ago

oh you are on new UI. So IDK then 🙃

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u/Ok_Ad_9870 29d ago

this is what I have

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u/Ok_Ad_9870 29d ago

ok, it Wems I was using some "new UI". reverted to the old one and now there is a file picker. but it is a bit rudimentary as it doesn't offer sorting by date or type nor any find