Rule that checks if slot was set for any value

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Im trying to write a rule that checks if a slot was set regardless of the value of the slot. All the examples I see look like this:

- rule: Only say `hello` if the user provided a name
  condition:
  - slot_was_set:
    - user_provided_name: true

But my slot is a text field with many possible values and I dont care about the value, I just want to trigger the rule if the slot was set to any value. How do I write that kind of rule?

Could I write the rule like this?:

- rule: Only say `hello` if the user provided a name
  condition:
  - slot_was_set:
    - some_text_slot

Also is there some developer documentation/reference showing all the possible rules and condition parameters since the docs only give examples but not the full reference?

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you can put in the rules whatever you can put in the stories, it essentially the same format

- slot_was_set:
    - some_text_slot

if it works in the stories, it’ll work exactly the same way in the rules

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Did you find a solution to this? I’m having the same problem, somehow stories and rules have different behaviour for the

- slot_was_set:
    - some_text_slot

The workaround I found is to use something like this:

- slot_was_set:
    - some_text_slot: "dummy text, they dont match on rule"

- slot_was_set:
    - some_text_slot: null # when i want the slot to be empty
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