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gabriel309
Participating Frequently
August 8, 2017
Question

How to automate my advanced Actions for different slides?

  • August 8, 2017
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Hello Adobe Community,

I created my own customized Knowledge check question slides and answer slides. For this I used the advanced questions with commands for the different objects. My Problem is that i Need to create a new duplicate of These advanced Action for every new slide/question because the names of the Buttons are different. So i have to Change the names in the advanced Action for all 20 questions.

Does anyone know a better and effective way to handle this?

Thanks in advance

Gabriel

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Paul Wilson CTDP
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2017

I realized that I may have misunderstood the question when I recorded a video reply but nevertheless here are my two cents on duplicating anything with variables and advanced actions.

https://youtu.be/PEJfP4gbAAo

Paul Wilson, CTDP
gabriel309
Participating Frequently
August 9, 2017

Thank you a lot Paul. Actually I built my advanced action and the customized question and answer slides with your example. But like you said above you misunderstood my problem a bit. I think the solution will be JavaScript. Do you think you can show the basics of this in one of your next videos? Or maybe in your next live stream on 14th? Looking forward to this. 

Have a great day

Gabriel

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
August 9, 2017

We do offer a replay of a webinar we did and you can get all of the JavaScript files to automate what you want. Or we can customize the scripts for you. This is a perfect case for JavaScript. Our scripts work with a naming convention like yours where you use the slide number for item that are clicked and to show/hide elements and feedback.

gabriel309
Participating Frequently
August 9, 2017

This would be awesome! What do I have to do?

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
August 9, 2017

Contact us through our website. https://www.tlcmediadesign.com

Lilybiri
Legend
August 8, 2017

That is something that I would first reflect on before creating the advanced actions, how I could save time.

If you post a screenshot of the advanced action,  and of the timeline, maybe I could offer some ideas like:

  • Can you use objects timed for several slides, so that they have the same ID?
  • Can the advanced action be replaced by a shared action with parameters?
  • Can you use grouping in an efficient way to limit the amount of commands?
gabriel309
Participating Frequently
August 8, 2017

My "Add Media" button does not work. Could you send me an email to xxxxxxx  so I can mail you the screenshots?

Moderator: please don't post personal credentials on a public forum.

Lilybiri
Legend
August 8, 2017

Go directly to the Jive forum, this is your thread:

Re: How to automate my advanced Actions for different slides?

It is much easier to insert screenshots there with this button: