OR trigger condition not an initial option
Dec 20, 2013
Can someone please explain the rationale for requiring the first additional condition on a trigger to be an AND condition? By default triggers include one condition with the When and Object fields, so I feel like I should be able to add an OR condition for my second one. (See how the option for AND/OR is grayed out in the photo below?)
I run into this all the time, and I either have to create two separate triggers or I have to create a fake AND condition that will always be true (like the timeline for the whole slide has started) before I can add an OR condition. Am I missing something?
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If you only have one condition it is on or off it is only subsequent conditions that would be AND or OR
Hi Robert,
Looks like Phil has you covered here, but if you need anything else please let us know!
Thanks, Phil.
I guess my question wasn't articulated very well because now I believe I'm really asking about multiple triggers instead of conditions. I think I really want to be able to add additional triggers in the Edit Trigger dialogue. Take this simple hypothetical for example:
Desired action: Play media if the user clicks this object OR clicks that object.
The way I currently handle this is with the following options:
I'm spending way more time asking about this than it actually takes to build what I want, but I'm always looking for ways to speed up work in the future. So my question is: Are the two options I just listed the best way to handle my hypothetical or is there a better way that I'm missing?
Hi Robert,
Thanks for sharing more information about how you'd like to set up your slide. The two ways you described are the only ways to set this up (at least in terms of built in functionality). I'd like go with your first option, assuming there aren't other triggers you need to assign to the individual objects within the group, as this would prevent a user from clicking on each individual item and playing the audio twice.
Thanks, Ashley. I figured that was the case, but I just wanted to be sure I understood things correctly.
No worries Robert, we're here to help.
you can paste triggers onto other objects or duplicate an object which duplicates the triggers, when I built a periodic table each object had 250 triggers, I built one and the duplicated the others
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