only run azure pipeline template if previous step succeeded

Is there a way to run a template if and only if the previous step in the pipeline job completed successfully and anther condition is met as well? Here's what I tried:

- ${{ if and(in(variables['Agent.JobStatus'], 'Succeeded', 'SucceededWithIssues'), eq(parameters.deployToDevServer, true)) }}:
  - template: Templates/push-files-to-release-artifacts-repo.yml
    parameters:
      releaseArtifactsRepoPath: $(Build.Repository.LocalPath)/ReleaseArtifacts

But the step doesn't execute at all. I also tried using the succeeded() conditional but it wouldn't validate the YAML. To sum it up, I am trying to conditionally run this template based on whether the parameters.deployToDevServer value is true and the previous step succeeded.

This is not possible to do this in this way. Because you are mixing compile-time (${{ }}) and run-time (variables['Agent.JobStatus']) expressions here - ${{ if and(in(variables['Agent.JobStatus'], 'Succeeded', 'SucceededWithIssues'), eq(parameters.deployToDevServer, true)) }}:

The whole expression is evaluated at compile and then variables['Agent.JobStatus'] is just empty. You need to use conditions to skip your stage/job/step in your template. But it has to be done in the template.