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satisfied_Solace157F
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August 5, 2023
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Can't paste an interaction to multiple artboards

  • August 5, 2023
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I'm in Prototype mode with four artboards; #4 is an overlay that the three others can launch from a burger menu.

  1. Created an overlay interaction on board #1 (burger to overlay, slide right). 
  2. Verified in preview.
  3. Edit>Copied the interaction.
  4. Selected the burgers on boards #2 and #3. Both burgers are highlighted.
  5. Edit>Pasted. This pasted the interaction ONLY to the most recently selected burger. It should paste the interaction to both.

I'm following straight from the Tutorial right now, and it's not happening for me. I have to copy/paste the interaction twice, can't do it in one swoop to multiple artboards. This problem was noted in 2020 and the advice was to update, but it's 2023 and I've got theeeee latest.

Version 57.1.12.2

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    AkinGn
    AkinGn
    Community Expert
    August 7, 2023

    Hi @satisfied_Solace157F, if I'm not missing something, I managed to make it work by setting the interaction in the first artboard only (as it has the main button component) I suggest you to do the same (setting the interaction using the main component). Another way would be deleting the existing components in other artboards and pasting the one that has the interaction in space of them, you can do by deleting existing ones first and then selecting the artboards and pasting, maybe you know but the component will be pasted into the exact position of the one you copied. Oh and if you can share the tutorial you're trying to apply the solution from, I'd like to check it also, hope this helps!

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    satisfied_Solace157FAuthor
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    August 7, 2023

    Akin, thanks for the suggestion to delete the other two burgers and simply paste the interaction onto the remaining two artboards. I tried that and it worked! I got curious and I tried starting from scratch (deleted the two pasted interactions) and instead of pasting into the two burgers per the instructions in the video, I simply pasted onto the artboards. It worked again! Maybe the tutorial shouldn't instruct us to paste into the burger menus. It's this tutorial, Step 4 (Add overlays to simulate UI elements), beginning at 7:00.

    https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/learn/get-started-xd-prototype.html

     

     

    AkinGn
    AkinGn
    Community Expert
    August 8, 2023

    Hi @satisfied_Solace157F, thank you for pointing out the exact time in the step you mention. Actually her tutorials are great, I started to learn XD with those (and many other people as we can guess ;)) I tried to do as she instructs and it worked in my file. Can there be some other issue (I know you have the latest version but maybe system etc related, I don't know about the combination) or something you're missing, I know "paste interaction" option is only available in the prototype mode but still, sometimes we skip stuff without noticing, if you have a sample version etc of your file that I can check, I'd like to have a look. (oh and if you paste the interaction to the artboards, the whole artboard becomes the trigger for the interaction, in this case, you can tap anywhere in the artboard to trigger the burger menu interaction, that's not something we want, right, what I did was deleting the existing menu buttons on two other artboards, selecting the one in the first artboard and copying it, and then selecting other two artboards by clicking to their names while holding shift and simply pasting, that way the component/element you copied will be pasted to the exact same position in the other artborads, with all its properties including interactions 😉 ) But also I'm glad you sorted out, happy designing! 🙌

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