Please Fix Documentation Pages

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Is anybody else having this problem . . .

When I try to access the Documentation pages, e.g., https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=App_Preferences I just get an error.

This happens for at least the following:

App Structure: "preferences" and "Code" pages

Common Methods: "Command Object", "Mode Object", "State Object",

Hubitat Staff - Can this be fixed (along with updates to these documents).

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Thank you for your feedback. We are in the process of (slowly) updating the documentation. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Thank you. I was hoping it might just be some broken links needing to be updated to at least get back some of the information (along with a follow-up for future page updates).

I do have a specific question that I was trying to solve, which is why I was looking at these pages.

For App code, when trying to do a selection of devices, I know to use code along the lines of . . .

            allDeviceTypes.each { deviceType ->
                input(
                    // Note: This name _must_ be converted to a String.
                    //       If it isn't, then all devices will be removed when linking to Google Home
                    name: "${deviceType.name}.devices" as String,
                    type: "capability.Light",
                    title: "${deviceType.display} devices",
                    multiple: true
                )

What I was trying to figure out - for the "type" field, is it possible to use complex expressions and how to do that.

For example, can you have something like
type: "capability.Light" and NOT "capability.SwitchLevel"

or

Type: "capability.Light" and "capability.SwitchLevel"

or maybe it some kind of a method call

Type: method_to_check_capabilities

Or maybe it can't be done.

thanks.

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As far as I remember, those docs have simply never existed.

Historically, this has not been possible, but at least one built-in app seems to be doing it now, so I'm also curious if user apps can.

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