# Advanced Condition not evaluating until edited

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/advanced-condition-not-evaluating-until-edited/47614>\
**Category:** Bugs or Unexpected Behavior\
**Tags:** advanced-conditions\
**Created:** [August 20, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/advanced-condition-not-evaluating-until-edited/47614 "2026-08-20T13:40:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![stormlash](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stormlash](https://community.folivora.ai/u/stormlash)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/advanced-condition-not-evaluating-until-edited/47614/1 "2026-08-20T13:40:00Z")

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**Describe the bug**  
I have some keyboard shortcuts configured to override Outlook shortcut keys, but only in certain conditions. For example, Ctrl-E is overwritten to go to the end of the line when editing a message, but not when viewing messages in the inbox. To handle this, I have this advanced condition set up to override the keys:

NOT (BTTActiveWindowTitle CONTAINS "Inbox" OR BTTActiveWindowTitle CONTAINS "Reading List" OR BTTActiveWindowTitle CONTAINS "Vacation Todo" OR BTTActiveWindowTitle CONTAINS "zQuick Reference")

and the same condition without the NOT to pass through a ^E to Outlook directly.

Everything works great, EXCEPT when BetterTouchTool first starts. On its first launch, none of the advanced conditions evaluate until I manually go in to the Advanced Condition Editor. As I enter this panel, the indicator in the bottom left says "Currently False" - then almost immediately transitions to "Currently True" at the same time as some of the other variables to the right (color\_under\_cursor, connected\_wifi\_name, etc) are populated with values. As soon as this has happened, I can just hit cancel and close out of the BTT window and the shortcut override behaves as I expect.

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**Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):**

Keyboard Shortcuts

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**Screenshots**

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**Device information:**

- Type of Mac: MacBook Pro M2 (2023)
- macOS version: 15.7.7 (24G720)
- BetterTouchTool version: 6.640

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**Additional information (e.g. crash logs, related issues, etc.):**

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 6:44am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/advanced-condition-not-evaluating-until-edited/47614/2 "2026-08-21T06:44:20Z")

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Ah for advanced trigger conditions the window title observing was not started automatically. This should be resolved in 6.744 (uploading)

However for your usecase, conditional activation groups might be more efficient: [Trigger Conditions & Conditional Activation Groups | BetterTouchTool Documentation](https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/actions/conditions)