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Is there a way to print out or Copy/Paste the contents of the Trigger Panel?
I know it wasn't possible a few years ago, but hoping/wishing/dreaming there is now a way to get the text of the trigger panel of a slide to where it can read/manipulated elsewhere.
Part of the ask is I just need to make the text bigger. Unfortunately, working today only on a laptop which is not ideal for my old, tired eyes. Add to that, the slide I am working on has over 30 triggers.
It would be so much easier if I had the text of the triggers elsewhere. I could not only resize but also have a view of seeing many more triggers together before scrolling. Add to that the possibility of moving lines around as needed to help see where things are going.
Thanks in advance
Suzanne
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Thank you. It's great that there is no download needed. I finally got a chance to look at it. It does help as a starting point, but too generic for editing. Looking at the example below, and the statement "state of an object."
Thank you
Hi SuzanneNeafus,
Thanks for sharing this! I understand that you’d like a way to copy or print the trigger panel text, so you can enlarge it, see more triggers at once, and rearrange them elsewhere. With 30+ triggers on one slide and a laptop screen, I can see why that matters.
To help us understand your experience:
- How do you work with the trigger panel today on a slide with this many triggers?
- What impact does that have on how long it takes you to build or review a slide?
Hearing how this plays out in your day-to-day work helps us understand your perspective. If more comes up, we’d love to hear it!
Good afternoon, Luciana. I would love to give my thoughts but would prefer not to do it publicly. Is there an email or way to message you? Thanks Suzanne
Hello SuzanneNeafus,
Thanks for taking a look and sharing your thoughts in your reply above! Absolutely. You can share your thoughts privately via a support case. Our team can continue the conversation with you there.
I second this. Having to scroll down when you have many triggers is so annoying. It'd be great to use another tool to do global find/replace on variable names, etc.
Hi Silverfire,
Thanks for sharing! You’d like an easier way to work through long trigger lists without scrolling, and you’d like to use another tool to run find and replace on things like variable names. How does changing variable names across your triggers impact your workflow today?
I don’t have anything to share about what’s ahead, but hearing how this plays out in your projects helps us understand what you’re looking for.
Hi Luciana. I don't often need to change variable names, but when I do, it's tedious to have to click into a trigger, find the variable, change it, save the trigger, and then do the same process again for each object that uses that particular script. I've found that I usually am applying the same script to multiple objects, and that's how this situation occurs. I've also just kept a master script somewhere, but even in that case, I have to copy/paste the script into multiple objects. That feels like overkill, but the process is largely the same. It'd be nice to have a way to replace bits of multiple scripts (or maybe the whole script) at once if they are identical to one another.
I have a multiple monitor set up, with my side monitor set to portrait mode. When I float the triggers panel out of the application, I can expand the panel on the portrait mode screen quite far. Its not perfect, but it does offer a lot of relief for most complex trigger situations.
