Hello everyone! i hope you can help me with this: we´ve been trying out the use of templates and master. We have set a slide layout in the master with three buttons. If i add a trigger to those buttons in the master, will every slide of my project have that same trigger added? Or should I add the buttons on the slide but not in the master?
Objects on a master will show up on every slide using that master. Triggers added to the master will EXECUTE on every slide using that master, but will not be ADDED to each content slide. What exactly are the three buttons on your master supposed to do?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure why you would want to use buttons on a master to show layers on an individual slide. Objects on a master are typically used to provide access to common items, for example a menu that sits on a layer on the master. For showing layers on a content slide, you can just add triggers on that specific slide.
I'm sorry if I'm not explaining correctly. The thing is: in the master we added those 3 buttons, but in the content slide, we cannot add a trigger to those buttons, they appear as if they were static images.
Correct, you cannot refer to masterslide objects in triggers on a content slide. Maybe the attached example illustrates what I was trying to say originally. The one blue button at the bottom of each slide sits on the master. You can click it on any slide, the trigger connected to that button also resides on the master. The orange button on slide two show an example to trigger elements, e.g. a layer from this content slide by changing the value of a variable. The variable change in turn triggers an action on the master. Hope that makes sense.
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Objects on a master will show up on every slide using that master. Triggers added to the master will EXECUTE on every slide using that master, but will not be ADDED to each content slide. What exactly are the three buttons on your master supposed to do?
Thanks for your response Michael!
Those three buttons should show different layers on the slide i'm working on.
...show different layers on a content slide or on the master slide? Maybe you can share your .story file here and someone will have a closer look.
On a content slide. As I've never used the master before, i'ts kind of new for me.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure why you would want to use buttons on a master to show layers on an individual slide. Objects on a master are typically used to provide access to common items, for example a menu that sits on a layer on the master. For showing layers on a content slide, you can just add triggers on that specific slide.
I'm sorry if I'm not explaining correctly. The thing is: in the master we added those 3 buttons, but in the content slide, we cannot add a trigger to those buttons, they appear as if they were static images.
Correct, you cannot refer to masterslide objects in triggers on a content slide. Maybe the attached example illustrates what I was trying to say originally. The one blue button at the bottom of each slide sits on the master. You can click it on any slide, the trigger connected to that button also resides on the master. The orange button on slide two show an example to trigger elements, e.g. a layer from this content slide by changing the value of a variable. The variable change in turn triggers an action on the master. Hope that makes sense.
wujuu! Thank you so much for your help! :D
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