Copying triggers across slides?
Dec 11, 2015
Hello, I use Articulate for my job. Unfortunately, not many in this small company know it well, and those that due have a perfunctory (non-technical) understanding.
My concern: A client submitted a 70 slide Power Point for use to turn into an AICC exported training.
When I import the Power Point, it auto-generates a slide trigger, set to advance to the next slide when timeline ends. The client, however, wants the slides to advance on user click -- but only after exactly 7 second.
My solution: I added a boolean variable, and set the slide trigger to merely change the state of this variable at timeline's end, and then added a player trigger which advanced on user click, but only on the condition the boolean variable's state had changed. Easy peasy.
My issue: I now have to reimplement this idea across 69 more slides. In the perfect would I'd be able to click in the little trigger box, say "select all" and then copy/paste across the remaining slides. However, this does not seem a perfect world. :(
Is there any way to accomplish this task besides clicking in and manually setting each slide? I can copy one of the two triggers, paste, and then go back and copy the other, pasting again, but then I also have to remove the original trigger (lest their now be two), and it seems a big pain.
I figured out how to do a batch removal of all trigger of a certain type (select Storyline with a "select all" and then remove the trigger from the first slide -- provided all slides have exactly the same trigger, they seem to go in a batch format).. but I can't figure out how to apply them similarly.
Help?
p.s. Is there a way to set the time line end across 70 slides automatically? The .pptx file imported with a default 5 seconds, and 7 is my target. If not a way to alter them post import, is there an .ini file I can hack to change this default arrangement (or preference in general) for a reimport? Not sure where it got the 5 seconds from.
4 Replies
Hi Ken!
I've seen a similar question in the forums before. Perhaps the solutions shared in this thread will assist you in your task.
Thank you for the reply, but that link doesn't really address my concern at all.
In short, I figured out how to use variables to interact between the various triggers; my concern was with copying my solution across 70 slides.
However, even this I figured out:
I focused (clicked on) any one slide as displayed in Scene display on the left, and then selected all to illuminate all 70 slides. I then pasted the trigger, which added them to each and every slide.
I still had to go through all 70 slides to delete out the duplicate triggers (i.e. those placed by default), but I got it to purr like a kitten.
Hi Ken,
I'm not sure I'm clear on the part you needed assistance for - but in regards to copying triggers, did you also try duplicating the slides to capture all the triggers? It would also include everything else on the slide - but there isn't a mass export/import of triggers.
If it is the same trigger on every page, maybe you can put it on the master. You may have to do that before you create the slides, I'm not sure how well it works retroactively.
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