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Editing slide master triggers in project slides
Would it be possible to make triggers generated at slide master level visible, editable and removable individually per each project slide?
Project may require consistent triggers driven behaviors across slides, for example "hide the next button until the end of the timeline".
The creation of the same triggers in each slide for a recurrent behavior may results frustrating and a potential source of error.
The possibility to create these trigger at slide master level and have them applied to all slides is a good solution, but it doesn't work when a few slide are an exception to the recurrent behavior: triggers created at slide master level are not shown in project slide, thus they cannot be edited, deactivated nor deleted.
The use of a second slide master, one with and one without triggers, may be a workaround but it would make tricky to troubleshoot or to review a project as it would not be possible to see from which master the slide has been generated.
The possibility to see, edit, deactivate and delete slide master triggers would be an added value when deploying project slides.
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It would be helpful to edit master triggers from the slide!
However, I assume that the programming involved would also require more effort than Articulate would want to put into such a feature, especially since there are workarounds.
FYI: You can use a variable to control whether a Slide Master trigger runs or not. Any variable can be changed with a trigger on the slide.
For example, a Slide Master trigger might run with the condition that the variable = True. Or a Slide Master trigger might run when the variable adjusts. The options you use depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
Here are some resources that might help:
- PRIMER: Mastering the Slide Master | E-Learning Heroes
- TIP: Master Toggling On and Off | E-Learning Heroes
- TIP: Track Progress with Master Badges | E-Learning Heroes
- The Value of Variables | E-Learning Heroes
By the way, the example you mentioned was "hide the next button until the end of the timeline." There's no need for a Slide Master trigger to prevent users from clicking Next until the timeline finishes. Instead, you can simply set the Player's navigation to Restricted. And you can override that restriction on any slide using other triggers. This post has details: TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 | E-Learning Heroes.
