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Click a button and change the state of multiple objects
Is there an easier way to change the state of 10 objects when you click a button, then having to make a trigger for all 10. I understand you can do this if I grouped them all together but I need them to stay individual because each one has a different hover state. I also cant make them a different layer since they need to be in a scroll panel on the main slide.
Was not sure if this was something I could do in Articulate or is there a way to do it using JavaScript.
I don't know JavaScript, so I can't say how complicated it might be to use that.
In Storyline, you do have to use 10 triggers to change the state of 10 objects.
There is a shortcut for when there's a set of triggers that all need to run when any one of multiple items is clicked:
- Create a T/F variable to track that an item has been clicked.
- On each clickable item, add a trigger that toggles the variable. (It doesn't matter what the value is; it only matters that it changes.)
- For each trigger in the "set," have it run when the variable changes.
Thus, you still need a separate trigger for each action in the set. But you only need one set of those triggers (instead of a complete set of triggers attached to each clickable item).
