Copying Triggers

Can I copy and paste multiple triggers at once?

Hi, Tracy - 

You can only select a single trigger at a time. So there's no way to copy more than one trigger at a time unless you attach it to a dummy object. 

For example, draw a square off stage and copy your triggers to that object. When you copy and paste this object your triggers should be transported with it. Some of the triggers may break if the destination doesn't contain the targets of the trigger. These are clearly indicated by red underlined text.

Bummer!

I just figured out how to lock the navigation with variables and now I need all five of the triggers I've set up to be on over sixty slides.

I noticed the post date of this discussion and am hoping this issue has been resolved in a newer version. Is it so and I just can't find it? If not, how do we submit a request because I certainly don't look forward to copy/pasting all of those triggers one at a time or using Steve's hack.

Other option is putting the triggers on the master slide. If your trigger conditions are variable listeners, the triggers should still work.

I've been using objects to transport variables quite a bit. Adding triggers to a hidden object (with one last trigger to hide the object) and showing the object with a separate trigger is a neat way to make the object behave like a function.

Hi Michael,

I see Steve provided you with another idea, but if you'd like to ever submit a feature request please feel free to do so here. 

Steve. Thanks for the reply. I just tried your solution and it solved one problem (easily copy/pasting triggers/variables) but again this is another workaround. And it does create a lot of work, albeit not as much as recreating all of those variables and triggers again for each slide.

This is being used to lock the next button until (?) so when I use your solution by attaching the triggers to an object I have go back and edit every trigger on every page so they point to the slide instead of the object. Otherwise all of the functionality breaks. I've been able to move one trigger to the slide master: The set variable to false when timeline starts (this resets my lockNextButton so it can be used again from previous slide). All others have to be on each slide individually (total of 4, so not too bad).

Thanks again.

Thanks Michael for the update 

If you select the trigger you want to copy, using the 'copy' button, then go to the left hand pane where your slides are listed. You can select multiple slides by holding the SHIFT key down and clicking on the slides you want to copy to. Press 'control v' (NOT the Paste button on the right hand side) then it will copy that trigger to all the slides you have selected.

Many thanks, Kim. You solved the problem.

Glad that this thread helped you out Gil! 

gosh just wanted to say thankyou for such a simple solution

Glad this thread helped you out Tamara and thanks for the update. 

Im still confused why we can't select multiple triggers to copy at one time.  This seems like an incredibly easy tweak and shouldn't require a work around.  I use Storyline 1.  Can anyone tell me if they resolved this issue on Storyline 2?

There is no change in SL2.

Hi Al,

As Michael mentioned it's not a feature of Storyline 2 either. Depending on what triggers you're looking to copy, if they're assigned to an object, copying and duplicating the object would take all the triggers as well and copy those, so possibly that is an option for you? 

Additionally I'd also invite you to share your feedback here as well, as those go to our product development team for review. 

Nice idea, but not all triggers can be attached to an object.

For example I added a "Show Layer x when timeline starts if variable z is equal to true"

However, when I add a "Show Layer x when variable z changes if variable z is equal to true" is Always added to the Slide Trigger.

Variables that are changed on cue points also are on slide triggers.

Then again, if you have to copy a lot of triggere to other slides this is quite cumbersome.

Hi Sjoerd,

Correct - not all triggers, but figured it was worth sharing that as an idea to help copy some of the triggers. 

At this time there isn't another way to copy all of them, but as always it's something our team is happy to have documented in the form of a feature request. 

I do the math. Sometimes it is worth duplicating the slide. You get all the objects, layers, and triggers. Sometimes it is easier to delete a bunch of unwanted objects than it is to copy a bunch of triggers.

Thanks for the workarounds so far. I want to copy a bunch of triggers for showing a layer. Is there also an easy way to copy the layer to multiple slides?

Hi Anika,

There isn't a way to copy more than one trigger at a time - but if you have triggers associated with an object you can copy the object and that will capture all the triggers as well. 

Hi Ashley,

Thanks, I know. My question was about copying one or two layers to multiple slides, and even better: copy a trigger with the associated layer.

Hi Anika,

Sorry for my confusion you mentioned "copy a bunch of triggers for showing a slide" - if you need to copy multiple layers at once, I'd look instead at duplicating the slide as that'll keep all the layers as well. If you copy just that one layer, it will copy the objects and triggers on that layer, but there isn't a way to copy more than one layer at a time. 

Ok, thanks.