Rule Machine Makes Me Feel Stupid

Whenever I use Rule Machine after having been away from it for a while, it seems like I have to start over from scratch.
Can someone please enumerate the sequence of clicks needed to change the temperature in this IF statement from 80.0 to 70.0?

Thank you.

Click on "Manage or Create Conditions" in your screenshot above.
Select Edit Condition.
Select the condition with "80" in it and change the 80 to 70.
Then "Done" your way out.

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I have been using Global Variables for temperature devices where I may need to make changes occasionally. It becomes easy to adjust things up or down with a simple rule. GV for temperature devices became available an update or two ago.

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Thank you! That worked perfectly. But now I can't figure out how to get back to the screen that shows the "Manage or Create Conditions" box.
From the App List I select the rule I want to edit, then from the next screen I press the "Select Actions to Run" box and I am presented with this:


What now?

Click Done Editing Expression.
Just Done your way out.

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OK. I think I see what I did.
I followed your advice the first time, "Doned" my way out, and everything was good. Then I got adventurous and created a third condition in the "Manage or Create Conditions" box. Somehow, after doing that, I made it all the way back to the main App list screen and every time I would select the rule again I had the symptom I described above.
I guess, even though I had exited all the way to the App list, it was still waiting for me to press the "Done editing expression" button.
Apparently the software doesn't cancel pending edit actions if you press the "<App List" button in the upper left corner. Is there a reason for that ?

Again, thank you for your help. I really appreciate it.

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I have found clicking that button in RM does nothing but bad things to HE. I think they even say that in all the RM vids. If I want to "cancel" something I messed up, I finish it, then delete what I did. Makes HE happy, don't know why, just is.

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