[RELEASE] Google Calendar, Task, and Gmail Search and Gmail Notification Device

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@mordy111

What am i doing wrong? was expecting just the 100 to come over.

-edit: I am rereading the instructions and now see "If a match is found, the remaining text on that line (or next line) will become the value of the selected Hub Variable"
I guess "remaining" means ALL remaining words. Was hoping to discard all words previous to the trigger word as those words tend to vary alot.

Unfortunately this functionality isn't going to work for your use case. Instead you could use Rule Machine to trigger on changes to your child switch eventTitle and extract your value via token function but the fact your string has a % in it will cause problems. Know you mention your words tend to vary but I would recommend standardizing them or choose something other than % as a delimiter.

See this article on how to extract token from strings:

Extracting a token from a String Variable

In Release 2.1.5.123 there is a new advanced feature in Rule Machine that allows you to extract a token from a string, including from a String Variable. [02%20AM] Notice that the string used above is 123-456-7890. The Delimiter is the character (or characters) that will be used to break the string into tokens; "-" above. The index selects which token we want, starting with 0 for the left-most token. So, in this case, the result stored in Charlie would be 123. That's not very useful as sho…

Here is an example where I changed your % to a : and the rule properly extracted the 100 from the string, ignore the "phone number" as I reused an existing string variable I have on my dev hub.

Variable value:

Note the rule trigger is eventTitle does not equal a space " ". When no event is found by the search trigger the app sets all state variables to a single space. So you can catch this by looking for eventTitle != " "