Closed Dcanadian closed 1 week ago
I did something similar for our scriptures, and the steps might work for you.
When the user clicks on the first slide, the action will play and change the stage layout.
Bonus: A slide can have more than one action on it at the same time.
Thank you @Dcanadian. Does the method provided by @mwb9aa work for you?
I believe that @Dcanadian is meaning to add the ability to apply an action/macro to the first slide of the show depending on which category it is in. That way, you don't have to go through every show of the category to add it (which is very time-consuming when you have at least 600 songs.
Yes, @thebiblelover7 , you beat me to it! 😀 I am wondering if it can become a feature to have that macro. The method @mwb9aa mentioned seems like a good solution, but I think that if possible, we should look into making this a simple and slick feature.
My steps are just a workaround. I think this feature is almost implemented, with just a few more pieces in place, I think we can have the features @thebiblelover7 and @Dcanadian are requesting.
I can create a template in the function drawer. I can create actions to change my stage layout by ID. I can add the actions to my group template by Right-clicking the template->Action->Run Action. I can create a group and add the template to the group in Settings->Groups. I can put this global group in my Show.
However, I don't think the run action is actually working. It is not working on either computer I am using at the moment.
*You can use an existing group, then there is no need to add it to every show because it is already in each show.
I think the bug is that run action on a template is not actually working.
@mwb9aa Actions/backgrounds on a template is only applied to slides when the template is applied to a show, not when the slides/groups/style template is automatically applied.
I think "Category action" is the way to go.
@vassbo I used this feature Sunday, It worked well. Thank you so much for all of your hard work.
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@mwb9aa, how did you implement that? I couldn't figure it out. I don't have a lot of experience using "Actions," so I'd love to learn how you set yours up.
@Dcanadian Apologies if my "teacher voice" comes out and I explain something you already know. My wife says it comes out a lot.
Actions are series of steps put into a "shortcut". Create actions by navigating to the actions section of the Function tab in the Drawer and clicking New action. @vassbo has given us tons of options, my favorite of which is being able to add multiple Start actions to a single action.
Some common actions broken by category:
- Select project item by index
- Select slide by index
- Next slide
- Change output style
- Change stage layout
Once you set up an action, you can click on it to activate it. You can also assign it a custom shortcut keypress (single keys only), a midi note trigger, and can drag the function onto a slide to be triggered whenever the slide goes "live".
In our service, we want the stage output to match the audience output during the announcements slides. So, I have an action set that
Then on any show in the category Ableton, I apply an action with the following actions:
If you have further questions, feel free to send me a dm.
Feature Description
Thanks so much @vassbo for all the hard work put into this app! I literally cannot thank you enough for such an awesome and free app. ❤️
So, for my church's song service, I like to put up a specific stage layout that uses the text from the current slide and the next slide to give the praise team a better idea of what is going on. However, the same stage view doesn't work for presentations and slides during the other parts of the service, so I usually end up quickly changing the stage output to a simpler "current output" view for the non-singing parts of the service.
What I'd like is the option to have the stage output automatically change in the stage show output based on the type of show being presented. I've tried to create an action to do this for me, but I couldn't find an option that would differentiate between the slides. I was thinking that it might be possible to either create an action or add an output setting to change the stage view output based off of the category that the show is in. This would mean that when I switch from a show in my "presentations" category to a show in my "hymnal" category the stage will switch from a presentation-tailored one to a hymn-tailored one.
What are your thoughts on this? Does this workflow already exist?