Renaming Script Entities does not rename script ID

[sam-ward]

The problem

This may be expected behavior, but it caught me out today so I thought i'd log it. I went through the exercise today of migrating my scripts (and automations) from yaml files to the editor using the migrate button. The process was:

1. Migrate the script, naming it the same as the old script (so it ends up with a _2 suffix).
2. Delete the script from the manually maintained yaml file (not scripts.yaml).
3. Using the Developer Tools -> YAML -> Reload Scripts.
4. Using Settings -> Devices -> Entities screen to delete the orphaned script entity and change the entity ID of the new script entity to remove the _2 suffix

But what I found was that despite renaming the script, the script could only be referenced in an automation with its "original" old name (with the _2 suffix), and there didn't appear to be any mechanism to effect the rename as desired.

In the end to achieve the desired result I manually edited scripts.yaml file and changed (what I am assuming is) the script ID and used the developer tools to reload the scripts (in hind sight I could have also copied the script again to the desired name and deleted the _2 instance).

As I said i'm not sure if this is expected behavior, but it is certainly confusing behavior that you can not rename a script in-spite of the UI appearing to allow you to do so. Its also confusing because the same process does work on the automations.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.8.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

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Integration causing the issue

script

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/script/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[Plawasan]

Similar thing happens even if you stick entirely to GUI, i.e. if you rename a script, the service action that the script provides keeps the old name. The only workaround I could find is recreating the script from scratch with the new name which then also creates the action under the new name.

[rrooggiieerr]

Duplicate of https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/115334

[masi]

The option "rename" changes what is called "alias" in YAML of the service.

Mind that there is also an entity for the service which can be (re-)named independently.

[sam-ward]

The problem I am seeing is that despite renaming the alias, and renaming the entity, at the UI layer atleast (I’m not sure if it’s deeper), it appears to only recognises the ID (if that’s the correct term, the 0 indent line of the scripts.yaml) of the script in the automation editor, developer tools, and auto complete.

On Sun, Sep 15, 2024, at 12:39 AM, Martin Kutschker wrote:

The option "rename" changes what is called "alias" in YAML of the service.

Mind that there is also an entity for the service which can be (re-)named independently.

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