New in Release 5: on-click actions have a new panel that works the same way as triggers: choose the action, then the targets. Organisations move to Release 5 on their release weekend, from 9 October.
Not on Release 5 yet? Until your organisation moves over, use Adding (cross screen) On-Click actions (before Release 5).
On-click actions make images and text interactive on touch screens. Tapping them can switch scenes or show and hide assets, on the same screen or on another one.
When you can use them
On-click actions are available for image and text assets, in the Base Setup, when your setup has touch screens. If you don't see them, your setup isn't set up for touch; contact TSC Support if it should be. Screen Overlay and Screen Backdrop assets can't have on-click actions.
Add an on-click action
Select one image or text asset.
In the property panel, open On-Click actions and click Add on-click action.
Choose an Action:
Navigate to scene: go to another scene.
Show asset, Hide asset or Toggle visibility: change which assets are visible.
Click Select target and choose where the action applies.
Navigate to scene
For each screen you want to change, choose Next scene, Previous scene or a specific scene. You can pick one scene per screen, so a button on screen 1 can also move screen 2 along. You can't choose the scene the asset itself is on.
Show, hide and toggle assets
Choose one or more assets, on any screen and in any scene. Use Add target to add more. You can also target the tapped asset itself, for example to hide a button once it has been used.
Combining actions
An asset can use each visibility action once, for example one Show asset and one Hide asset. Navigate to scene can't be combined with the visibility actions. The property panel sums up the result as Go to, Hide, Show or Toggle.
On screensaver scenes
Images and text on a screensaver scene can have on-click actions too, so visitors can tap straight into your story (see Setting up a screensaver).
Copying and duplicating
Navigate to scene actions keep their targets, as long as those scenes exist.
Show, hide and toggle actions point to the copies of their target assets if you copied those too. Targets that no longer exist are removed.
If an action goes to the scene you're pasting into, Compose asks you to confirm. That target is then ignored in Preview and on screen.
When you duplicate a story, its on-click actions are copied and point to the new scenes and assets.
Test your actions
Open Story Preview and click the assets to check that every action works as you expect before you publish.
Design tip for LiDAR and infrared touch
Keep about 10 cm clear around the edges of the screen and avoid the corners. Touches there may not be detected or, on multi-wall setups, may register on the wrong wall.