Rules - trigger http agent link?

Rules: When-Then, Flows and Groovy
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Hello there. I have created a JSON attribute containing an http agent link which returns a token from my Flask server, only when the parameter pollingMillis is used. However, I don’t want to continuously poll for a token. I have removed the pollingMillis and tried to use a When Then Rule to trigger instead, but I can’t get it to work. Is this even possible? Here is a screenshot of my rule:

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Hi!

I remember doing these configurations myself with HTTP agents as well :joy:
At the time I was also wondering whether a “manual trigger” was supported.

I couldn’t find it back then, but there might be a way to make it work, I’m not sure…
@Rich or @Pierre any idea?

As a fallback I used “polling millis”, and use a long timespan of a month.
When I preferred a manual action, I just disabled and enabled the agent again.
Or, the most common solution, use Rules to automate it that way.

Hope this helps!

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for the suggestion about disabling and enabling the agent. Would be nicer if there was a better way to do this - like adding a new parameter to the agent link that would support a boolean trigger. Or if someone knows how the agent link executes from pollingMillis, then could use groovy rules to make it work.

Thanks!