Automations condition for post category

[MichelleBlanchette]

A user has requested:

I'm trying to setup a new Asana task creation automation on post create but I need to filter the run only if the post category = 123

There is any simple way to achieve category post filter?

There may be complexity around posts actually being assigned several categories, where all the current conditions are for single value field comparisons. This means we may need different comparison operators... 🤔

Also, what about custom taxonomies? What about parent vs subcategory vs grandchild etc. levels?

[MichelleBlanchette]

Seems it will require custom handling since that's from a separate database table (taxonomies).

This should likely be a PRO feature which also supports any registered taxonomies/terms on the site rather than only the core 'category' taxonomy. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_category/

[MichelleBlanchette]

I just did an investigation. The categories are not available when the Post is Created Automation trigger event fires.

The hook even fired after I had already selected the desired categories. It just still processed the post as being "uncategorized".

Debug line in completionist/src/includes/automations/class-automation.php

Gave this output

[15-Jan-2025 01:05:47 UTC] PHP Notice:  Array
(
    [0] => WP_Term Object
        (
            [term_id] => 1
            [name] => Uncategorized
            [slug] => uncategorized
            [term_group] => 0
            [term_taxonomy_id] => 1
            [taxonomy] => category
            [description] => 
            [parent] => 0
            [count] => 0
            [filter] => raw
        )

)
 in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/completionist-pro/lite/completionist/src/includes/automations/class-automation.php on line 159
[15-Jan-2025 01:05:47 UTC] Successfully ran action for Completionist Automation hook name: wp_insert_post

with various categories set BEFORE the hook fired

[MichelleBlanchette]

I did just confirm the post's set categories are available when using the Post is Updated trigger instead.

This would mean #57 would be a higher priority to limit the number of times the Automation is triggered. For example, if I say "post is updated > status equals pending", then the Automation will run every time a post with that status is updated (not ONLY when the status BECOMES "pending").