# Ignore Failure of parent does not Ignore Failure of children

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**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ignore-failure-of-parent-does-not-ignore-failure-of-children/370 "2007-02-22T04:28:39Z")
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ignore-failure-of-parent-does-not-ignore-failure-of-children/370/1 "2007-02-22T04:28:39Z")

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Is it possible to ignore the failure of all of the children if "Ignore Failure" for the parent is selected?&nbsp; When having a long list of actions, it is extremely tedious to have to individually select/deselect this for each child of a parent to turn this option on/off.  
  
For instance, most of the "main" parents I have are ActionLists.&nbsp; If I Ignore Failure of the ActionList, I would really like for everything within that ActionList to have the same behaviour.

Thanks in advanced for your help!!!

Tracey

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### Author: ![tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ignore-failure-of-parent-does-not-ignore-failure-of-children/370/2 "2007-02-22T11:41:00Z")

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Hi Tracey,  
  
You can drive the Ignore Failure via script and a variable - which would make turning it on/off a lot quicker.  
  
ie. Create a new variable, eg. IgnoreGroup and set it to either True or False (edit variables in Tools menu | Edit Variables)  
Then in the BeforeAction script event of the actions you want to change, use the following VBScript code:  
Action.IgnoreFailure = IgnoreGroup  
  
then you can simply change the value of IgnoreGroup in the variables editor or Set Variable action.  
  
hth.  
.t8