(Obvious formalities out of the way first: MX-890 = MX-980, I'm assuming.)

It's a little hard to follow your question since it's not formatted the way the MX-980 editor expresses it, but I'm pretty sure I have the answer. Probably the key you're overlooking is that MX-980 explicity supports IF/ELSE, but not just IF. You need to declare both the "IF" case and the "ELSE" case. (You can sort of do an IF by keeping one side of the expression blank, of course.)

So first, in the If Setting dialog box, set your trigger event. So, let's say you set the IF Setting for a macro step to give the variable "FAIL" a trigger value of "False."

Obviously at this point, you program your macro steps for what happens on "IF," where the case of "IF" is that when the macro is run, "FAIL" is set to False. The second part of the macro therefore occurs when "FAIL" is set to True.

Some even external to this macro step sets the value of "FAIL," and the IF/ELSE statement acts on the valie of "FAIL" to produce either the "IF" case or, if the "IF" case is not satisfied, it defaults to the "ELSE" case.

Does that help?

Best regards,
Dale