"Continue" post action

I have a step in a For loop whose post-action I want to Continue (i.e., jump to the End step of the For block and continue looping [as in the "Continue" step type]) or to Break (i.e., break out of the loop by jumping to the End step and then executing the next step [as in the "Break" step type, not as in breaking execution]). Is this possible?
I tried to put a Continue or a Break step in a subsequence that gets called as a post-action, but that doesn't work because the behavior of the Continue and Break step types is scoped to the sequence in which they reside. Is there any other way to do this? To achieve the behavior of a Continue step, I can have a post-action destination of the End step (I can't think of anything equivalent to achieve the behavior of a Break step), but the steps I am trying to configure will be predefined as templates that are dynamically built into a sequence, and the end destination will not be known at edit time.

I agree with Doug that the best way to do this is probably with two steps. I set up a For loop with a Sequence Call step and a Break step directly after it. For the Sequence Call, I have the post actions set so that if the subsequence passes, it jumps to the step after the Break, so the loop can continue. If the subsequence fails, it goes to the next step (Break step) and exits the loop.
This isn't as simple as having everything in one step, but it does seem to work for me at least. If you'd like to see this function added to the API, please feel free to post it as an idea on the TestStand Idea Exchange so that it can be considered for future versions of TestStand.
I hope that helps, and let us know if you have any further questions about it!
Daniel E.
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National Instruments

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