i'd like to know if there is any possibility I can add a variable to a placeholder.
I'm building a presentation in which a fullscreen screencast is shown in step by step mode, taking up the entire screen. I have a textbox on the bottom containing the current subject, provided by the masterslide. I want my text-box to show up over my screencast, so I have to use the placeholder to do so, but my presentation is rather large, and I don't want to be going around typing the very same value in every one of the 300 slides.
Is there a way to add the correct value by just connecting a variable to this textbox?
Yes, you can by typing %var% on a textbox inside the masterslide (where var is the name of the variable, the value of which you want displayed).
Hope this helps, Alex
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your reply. The thing is that any content that is put right into the master slide that is not a placeholder will be forced to the background as soon as I import my screencasts, and I need the text-box with the variable to be on top of the screencast. The only way I found to do this is to add the placeholder to the masterslide and manually add the %var% tag into the textbox. However, this costs a lot of time I really want to spend doing other things. I've used the method you described for all my slides that don't have screencast-content, but most of my slides do.. Is there any other way?
There's another way - I haven't tested it with screencasts specifically, but I believe it works.
You can add this content (in this case the %var% textbox) to a layer on your Master-slide and make sure the "Hide other slide layers" on the master is unchecked. You may need to rework the way your Master works for this to always appear though...
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Hi Thomas and welcome to Heroes.
Yes, you can by typing %var% on a textbox inside the masterslide (where var is the name of the variable, the value of which you want displayed).
Hope this helps,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your reply. The thing is that any content that is put right into the master slide that is not a placeholder will be forced to the background as soon as I import my screencasts, and I need the text-box with the variable to be on top of the screencast. The only way I found to do this is to add the placeholder to the masterslide and manually add the %var% tag into the textbox. However, this costs a lot of time I really want to spend doing other things. I've used the method you described for all my slides that don't have screencast-content, but most of my slides do.. Is there any other way?
Thanks!
Thomas
There's another way - I haven't tested it with screencasts specifically, but I believe it works.
You can add this content (in this case the %var% textbox) to a layer on your Master-slide and make sure the "Hide other slide layers" on the master is unchecked. You may need to rework the way your Master works for this to always appear though...
Hope this helps,
Alex
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