Action to turn on/off other applets

DanT · 6 August 2019 09:10

I’ve been futzing with IFTTT trying to make this work but I’m not sure that the capability is there right now. What I’d like to accomplish is the following:

Rule 1

IF Google Calendar event from search "Vacation" starts,

THEN turn off applet X

Rule 2

IF Google Calendar event from search "Vacation" ends,

THEN turn on applet X

This logic could be applicable for any number of triggers, allowing you to turn on or off a number of IFTTT rules en masse instead of one by one. My specific use case would be to turn off some rules I have to govern my phone volume during business hours when I go on vacation, and turn them back on when I return from vacation.

Does anyone have a solution that would accomplish this in the current version? If not, u/ifttt-team, I’d love this functionality if it got added! Not sure where you’re taking suggestions now, so plopping it here for lack of a direct email suggestion box posted on the When do I contact support? page.

Anna · 15 March 2021 08:37

Regarding this request, IFTTT doesn’t expose through their API a method to turn applets on or off, so we won’t be able to tinker with those settings automagically from Apilio.

But with the new webhooks release, we have added a couple of webhooks to your Logiblocks so you can activate/deactivate them, so this is something that you can achieve in Apilio this way The new webhooks look like this in your Logicblock:

I hope this helps! Here’s the full article: