Scubaboard - Struggling to get notification only when string newly appears.

[lairdb]

I want to monitor a page (https://scubaboard.com/community/forums/classifieds-lights.750/), and receive an alert only when any of several specific strings newly appear (Big Blue or BigBlue).

It would seem from issues 71 and 190, and pull 187, that the "Trigger/wait for text" should do this for me, but I'm having issues.

Note, incidentally, that we're currently in a corner case: my target string currently appears on the page. My preference is to only be alerted when it newly appears (i.e. a new instance of the string appears.)

If I don't include an Ignore of /Replies.*Views.*/ then I get an update every time the page is scanned, as the view counts on the triggering line change. If I do include that ignore, I seem to be back to getting other extraneous page changes.

(I haven't tried building a regex that only extract those strings -- that's a possibility, but it feels hacky compared to what I think should be working.)

[dgtlmoon]

just set a CSS filter of .structItem-title

[dgtlmoon]

And set 'only trigger on new content' option

[lairdb]

Giving it a try, with a more likely trigger string added for validation.

(FWIW, I tend away from CSS selectors, as the FMEA analyzer in my head suggests that the page structure can silently change leading to an undetected failure -- but that's fairly low likelihood, and "filter can no longer be found" might detect it.)