Give name to Options in Automations

Feature Requests
1

In Automations when selecting Choose under Actions, it would be helpful to be able to name the Options for easier reading in the visual editor.

Edit: Clarified that this request is for the visual editor.

2

You can currently add the alias option to each conditions in a choose. This lets you supply more information about the purpose of each conditions.

Here’s an example:

alias: contrived_example
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_number.test
condition: []
action:
  - choose:
      - alias: the_first
        conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.state | int == 1 }}'
        sequence:
          - service: notify.persistent_notification
            data:
              message: First
      - alias: the_second
        conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.state | int == 2 }}'
        sequence:
          - service: notify.persistent_notification
            data:
              message: Second
    default:
      - service: notify.persistent_notification
        data:
          message: default
mode: single
2 Likes
3

Didn’t know this also… Handy

4

To clarify, alias in conditions can only be added and viewed when editing an automation’s YAML code. The Automation Editor doesn’t currently support adding the alias option or displaying it in ‘visual editor’ mode.

5

And can we also get minimization along with the naming. :blush: Having it everywhere else in my massive choose columns but not per option is cumbersome.