Help - (if not a suggestion for an improvement!)

[Tiger]

I have a strategy for the greyhounds. It's complex and involves having several different rules for various traps and tracks. For example, Towcester alone has 14 different rules, and the one I choose depends on details for each specific race.

The problem I have is that after choosing relevant rule (and updating the odds) for 100+ races assigned to Automation Rule 1, rather than pressing apply rules (Selected Markets) I have been known to accidentally hit Apply Rules (all Markets) which is right above it. After swearing and retrieving mouse which gets thrown across the room I remove all bets and painstakingly begin the process again race by race. This happens at least twice every week!

Worse still sometimes I'll put the rules in for the evening sessions during the day so when I hit the wrong one and apply to all, it means the wrong rule is in the wrong race and there is a mad panic to correct the rules for the races which start imminently.

The second I realise my mouse arrow has moved a millimetre and hit the all markets option my heart sinks and I want to undo it.

My question is this: Is there a way I can remove the Apply rules (all markets) button or move it somewhere so it's not right next to the Apply Rules (Selected Markets).

If not could you add an undo button like we get in Excel so it goes back to how it was before this fatal and undoable button is pressed.

I'm very happy to spend 30 minutes a day getting the races set up and it's working well. I just want to stop this one very time consuming mistake that's so easy to accidentally do and a complete pig to fix.

[jamesedwards]

I have to say in the 8 years of using Bet Angel daily I've never done that.

A workaround would be to change that drop down from column 'rules 1' to a rules column that you are not using. Therefore if you accidentally use the 'apply all' button it will apply rules to all markets in a separate column which you can then delete without it messing up your existing rule allocations.

[jamesedwards]

You may also be able to significantly reduce the amount of manual admin required by using relevant conditions to combine multiple rules into one file. There are conditions you can use for most attributes, such as tracks, distance, no of selections, grade etc, so that each individual ruleline within a single rule will only trigger against certain races.

I have dozens of separate rules running in Guardian but they are all triggered from within one single rulesfile.

For example, a rule with the below conditions would only trigger on races less than 800m at Sunderland, where there were no non-runners, and for selected grades of race only.

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