Cannot Edit Advanced Action (Captivate 5)

One of my projects has a conditional advanced action that Captivate will not let me edit. I can select its name in the "Existing Actions" drop-down list in the "Advanced Actions" window, but then neither the "Action Name" field nor the other fields in the window get populated with the values for that action.
I tried restarting Captivate in case that resolved the problem, but it did not.
Can anyone suggest a solution?

Hello,
About your point 1: do not even know what you are pointing at, never keep track of that kind of numbers (not an accountant) because I feel them being unimportant. I'm happy if I can help some users out with issues and do learn a lot myself by trying to solve problems.
Thanks for introducing a feature request. Of course I have done that multiple times concerning advanced actions. I also would like to have a search and replace function (for object ID's principally), to add comments, to print (not possible directly now) and to be able to construct a library with actions that can be opened like the external library of another project. Those are only a few of my long wish list.
I'm glad that my idea for re-using scripts with a template has at least one 'follower'. If you have time, would love to see your comment on that particular blog post, could be inspirational for other users. Here is the link:
Template for reusing scripts
Lieve

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