I would like to be able to access variables the same way, with folders, whether it is used as a trigger, a conditional or an action. I have gotten more and more variables and it's getting pretty unwieldly...well over 150 variables... if we could view the variables list as it is formatted within the folders, that would make this list MUCH more manageable when using a large amount of variables.

Yep - that's on the list.

<soapbox>It's very difficult to implement well though, particularly given that Apple doesn't support hierarchical menus in the Cocoa APIs. And since what's there is Carbon it's unclear what their future is since Carbon is slowly going away. Apple really dislikes hierarchical menus because menu items are supposed to represent commands, not data. Of course, they've not provided any other good compact way of representing hierarchical data... </soapbox>

I figured it wasn't something simple... I'm sure I have more variables than most people. Perhaps even a way to categorize the variables rather than have one global list. You could even have generic classifications, music, security, environment, lighting etc that we could lump variables into. Granted that would add another layer to the choice... after choosing "modify variable" or "variable becomes...", you would have to identify the category of the variable. I don't think that would be a huge issue if there was just a default category for the people who only have a handful of variables and said default category came up by default after choosing either the trigger, action or conditional for a variable. Just a thought.... although I'm sure you guys have kicked around a lot of different ideas on the best way to manage it.

By the way, it would be much much cooler if an actual soapbox appeared perhaps you guys should work on that instead!