Master slide - Audio Hotspot

You could attach a trigger to the hotspot on the masterslide that changes a variable. You then add triggers to the content slide(s) to play/pause/stop audio, based on the changing variable value.

Hi Terry! Looks like Michael has popped in to assist you here, just let us know if you need anything further.

Thanks, Michael, you got me started on the right path.

This was embarrassingly easy. I created variables and triggers on the master slide to pause/resume the timeline to control the audio on all the slides using that master. After I had it all set up and working perfectly it dawned on me that I just needed to have two markers, a pause and a play. 

• Clicking the play marker resumes the timeline, changes the state of the play marker to hidden, and reveals the pause marker underneath.
• Clicking the pause marker pauses the timeline, changes the play marker state to normal hiding the pause marker.
• By adding a couple more triggers I controlled what happened when the slide gained focus.

I reduced about thirteen triggers to six and eliminated the need for variables. Since there is no other animation on the slide, pausing and resuming the timeline only affects the audio.

The upside of doing all the extra work is it has improved my appreciation of working with variables and triggers on the master slide and hopefully I will have the chance to work with something more complex to take advantage of my new found knowledge. I need to explore layers to see what I can do with them in future too.

Terry

Thanks Terry for the update and glad you were able to get this working!