Hi, in trying to create an conditional if expression, I started with: if [tags] == "blah" or [tags] == "blah2" or [tags] == "blah3" { blah } but event data wasn't being "caught" by this expression. I then changed the expression to: if "blah" in [tags] or "blah2" in [tags] or "blah3" in [tags] { …

tags is an array that may contain more than one member, so testing for array membership using "in" is the right way to do this. if [tags][0] == "blah" { ... } will also work.

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nnet August 17, 2019, 2:09pm 2

Can anyone provide some insight, thanks!

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