# Custom actions not working since last update (if - else statement only takes else)

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/custom-actions-not-working-since-last-update-if-else-statement-only-takes-else/37736>\
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**Created:** [December 6, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/custom-actions-not-working-since-last-update-if-else-statement-only-takes-else/37736 "2020-12-06T15:30:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/custom-actions-not-working-since-last-update-if-else-statement-only-takes-else/37736/1 "2020-12-06T15:30:28Z")

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I use a form and check if the content of the slots matches with the symptoms for a cold, if not it matches with symptoms with a flu. Wich worked fine during the last weeks. Today I updates Rasa X (now 0.34.0) and Rasa (now 2.1.3) and I get only what happens under “else” although I make my answers true for “if”. I checked multiple times if there could be a typo, but there isn’t. Any ideas?

The actions.py looks like this:

> ```
> class SymptomQuizDiseases:
> cold = [["discomfort_slow", "symptom_light", "false", "false", "feel_listless"], ... ]]
> responseCold = "It's a cold."
>  
> flu = [["discomfort_fast", "symptom_heavy", "true", "true", "feel_bad"], ... ]
> responseFlu = "It's a flu."
> 
> class SymptomQuizSubmission(Action):
> 
> def name(self):
> return "submit_symptom_quiz_result"
> 
> def run(
> self, dispatcher: CollectingDispatcher, tracker: Tracker, domain: DomainDict
> ):
>         
> slot_list = [tracker.get_slot("discomfort_beginning"),tracker.get_slot("discomfort_development"),tracker.get_slot("temperature"),tracker.get_slot("body_aches"),tracker.get_slot("physical_condition")]
>     
> if slot_list in SymptomQuizDiseases.cold:
> dispatcher.utter_message(SymptomQuizDiseases.responseCold)
> else: 
> dispatcher.utter_message(SymptomQuizDiseases.responseFlu)
>            
> return []
> 
> ```

The form part of my domain.yml

```
    forms:
      symptom_quiz_form:
        body_aches:
        - intent: affirm
          type: from_intent
          value: true
        - intent: deny
          type: from_intent
          value: false
        discomfort_beginning:
        - intent: feel_bad
          type: from_intent
          value: discomfort_fast
        - intent: slow
          type: from_intent
          value: discomfort_slow
        discomfort_development:
        - intent: feel_bad
          type: from_intent
          value: symptom_heavy
        - intent: symptom_light
          type: from_intent
          value: symptom_light
        physical_condition:
        - intent: feel_bad
          type: from_intent
          value: feel_bad
        - intent: feel_listless
          type: from_intent
          value: feel_listless
        temperature:
        - intent: affirm
          type: from_intent
          value: true
        - intent: deny
          type: from_intent
          value: false

```

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