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Adding more information about the behaviour of manual interventions

src/pages/docs/projects/built-in-step-templates/manual-intervention-and-approvals.md

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 layout: src/layouts/Default.astro
 pubDate: 2023-01-01
-modDate: 2024-08-27
+modDate: 2024-12-02
 title: Manual intervention and approval step
 icon: fa-solid fa-check
 description: Manual intervention and approvals allow a human to review, approve, or sign off on deployments.
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 The **Manual intervention step** is a step that can be added to deployment processes to pause the deployment to wait for a member of a specified team to either allow the deployment to proceed or to be aborted.
 
+:::div{.hint}
+Manual interventions result in either a success or failure outcome based on the user’s input. Subsequent steps evaluate this outcome according to their run conditions. By default, the run condition is set to "Success: only run when previous steps succeed." This means manual interventions can prevent these steps from executing, causing the deployment to fail.
+
+However, if "Always Run" is selected for subsequent steps, they will proceed regardless of the manual intervention outcome. For steps with the condition "Variable: only run when the variable expression is true," the manual intervention's outcome must be included in the variable expression to determine whether the step should run.
+:::
+
 [Getting Started - Manual Intervention](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQjCClGfZQ)
 
 ## Add a manual intervention step
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 | `Octopus.Action[Step Name].Output.Manual.ResponsibleUser.DisplayName` | The display name of the user who submitted the interruption form | *Jamie Jones* |
 | `Octopus.Action[Step Name].Output.Manual.ResponsibleUser.EmailAddress` | The email address of the user who submitted the interruption form | *[email protected]* |
 
+## Evaluating manual intervention output in following steps
+If you want to control subsequent steps based on the outcome of the manual intervention step, you can use "Variable: only run when the variable expression is true", and use the `Octopus.Deployment.Error` variable as the conditional. For example:
+
+```
+#{unless Octopus.Deployment.Error}RESULT IF MANUAL INTERVENTION PROCEEDED{/unless}
+```
+or
+```
+#{if Octopus.Deployment.Error}RESULT IF MANUAL INTERVENTION WAS ABORTED{/if}
+```
+
 ## Learn more
 
 - [Advanced manual approvals](/docs/deployments/databases/common-patterns/manual-approvals)