[Pro] EASY question about Carousel order

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Hi all,

I think I am aware that if I want to change the order of the carousel panes I move them in the site panel. The one higher up shows up first…(?)

My question is about just the FIRST pane. Does this always have to stay the same???

If I have 4 panes, does #1 have to be the same while I can move the others in order, or can #4 become #1 and the first one people see easily?

using Carousel action.

Thanks.

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On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Barry Hoffman wrote:

Hi all,

I think I am aware that if I want to change the order of the carousel panes I move them in the site panel. The one higher up shows up first…(?)

My question is about just the FIRST pane. Does this always have to stay the same???

Yes. The first pane will always be the element you applied Carousel to, regardless of the stacking order of the other elements in relation to it. If you want to change the first pane to be something else, you’ll need to re-build the effect (remove the Actions from all of the panes, re-apply the Actions so the new first pane is the Carousel and all the others are the Panes.

Walter

If I have 4 panes, does #1 have to be the same while I can move the others in order, or can #4 become #1 and the first one people see easily?

using Carousel action.

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Walt,

If I have 5 panes (1 main plus 4 others) and I want to move #1 (main) to 4 and 4 to #1 for example, can;t I just move the graphic image that is in the pane?

So I would cut out the graphic in the main (keeping the frame with carousel action) and insert the #4 graphic.

This should work?

barry

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So I would cut out the graphic in the main (keeping the frame with carousel action) and insert the #4 graphic.

Yes - try it!

The principle is that the first ‘pane’ that has the Carousel action applied to it remains 1st in the running order - if you want to swop the content of that 1st one that is fine.

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thanks Dave…

Walt wrote back to me about that question about the smooth scroll problem at work. (No solution to the problem right now though)

if you want to read his interesting reply, let me know, I will email it to you.

Barry

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DAve,

Can I make something like an HTML box in the pasteboard of MASTER 1, that when I put something in it, it will NOT show up on every page that sees the master?

I need a temporay place to move the graphic is in PANE 1 of carousel if I want to swap it with pane 4 for example.

Barry

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Create a new Master

Call it ‘pasteboardmaster’ - or something similar.

Paste any content on it you like.

Unless you have a page in your FW doc that is based on that Master the stuff on it will not appear.

You can also paste any content on any page and use the Inspector to uncheck the Publish box.

D

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Oh-- I have a blank master 2 already.

I pulled a copy if it down. called it PASTEBAORD drop.

I should be able to use this as a go between spot.

sound good?

Barry

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ouch!

cutting the graphic from the main carousel pain, then pasting it in new page, then cutting pane 4 and pasting that in the main carosel pane how terrible results.

carousel itself got all screwed up.

I need to find a way to switch the MAIN pain graphic with #4 graphic to once in a while change the first item…

hmmm

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Remember you dont need to change the Pane - just the contents.

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I am not sure how you work with your graphics Barry but I don’t drag and drop from the finder. I have them all in the Media folder and I import them.

So in a situation like yours it is simply a matter of selecting the graphic container and Cmd + E to import the alternate graphic.

D

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so I should

  1. cut the contents out of main pane, put in blank holding page
  2. cut contents of pane 4
  3. paste contents of pane 4 in main pane
  4. cut contents off blank holding page and paste into spot for pane 4?

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some are graphic text- not really graphics.

check this and it will make perfect sense…

I want to easily move the guy in the first pane with the 4th one that appears.

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Your ‘guy’ is just an animated gif which you must have on your Mac somewhere so I dont see the problem about importing that.

The text can by copy/pasted or retyped - no big deal.

I would start by importing the ‘guy’ into pane 4

Then delete the contents of the main pane and retype the text.

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I think that is what I did…

This is my method, but not sure if best.

  1. I copied the text from pane 4
  2. I cleared content of MAIN (guy)
  3. I pasted text into main panel
  4. I re-imported graphic guy into pane 4.

I guess in this case I did not need the master 2 pasteboard thing s a holding place.

If I was switching text with master pane and #4 maybe I would need it.

thanks Dave!

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Dave

here is a jump off Question I was wondering.

If you had a MASTER 1 page and 30 pages that worked off the master 1,

is there anyway to add something to the master 1 and have it NOT show up on every one of 30 pages but instead only two of the 30 pages?

the reason I need this is long to type…

Right now what I have been doing is adding this to the master 1 page and deleting off 28 pages.

You might say why not just add it to the 2 pages only. The reason is I need the 2 pages to be in sync with each other and they work off the master 1 already.

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is there anyway to add something to the master 1 and have it NOT show up on every one of 30 pages but instead only two of the 30 pages?

Nope - not using a straightforward master.

It can be done but it depends what the content is and whether it is worth the extra effort rather than just adding it to the 2.

BTW - what is the PDF test?

D

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The pdf test was the 49 students to see if pdfs open on their computer. It was just a test for them to see if opened

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