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Specials actions
About Specials actions
The Specials menu in the Actions palette contains actions that manage or interact with other actions in a page, or call
upon other values in a page.
Action Group
The Action Group action lets you group other actions and trigger them together. This action is most useful on the
Actions Track of the Timeline Editor, but can also be used with buttons or a text link if you want to let the viewer
decide whether to run the grouped actions or not.
Trigger the action with a user-triggered, timeline-triggered, or browser-triggered action. In the Actions palette,
choose Action > Specials > Action Group. Click the Create New Item button
, choose an action from the Action
pop-up menu, and set its options. Continue to add and choose actions to the Actions List until you have added all
the desired actions to the Action Group.
Call Action
The Call Action triggers another action on the page. For Call Action to work, the action it triggers must be set to
OnCall. The Call Action action can be used to make your actions modular and easier to maintain. For example, if
your page contains a button and a text link that jump to the same URL, you can add a GoToLink action set to OnCall
in the header and trigger it with the Call Action applied to the button and the text link. If you decide to change the
URL referenced by the two controls, you will only need to change the GoToLink action.
Make sure there are one or more actions set to OnCall on the page. Trigger the CallAction with a user-triggered or
timeline-triggered event. Choose Action > Specials > Call Action. Choose an action from the pop-up menu.
Call Function
The Call Function action calls a function from the head section of the page.
Make sure there are one or more functions defined in the head section of the page. Trigger the action with a browser­
triggered event set to OnLoad. Choose Action > Specials > Call Function. Choose a function from the Function pop­
up menu, and enter a comma-separated list of function arguments in the Argument text box.
Note:
Action-based JavaScript calls will make it easier for JavaScript-savvy developers to create new actions.
Condition
The Condition action monitors the browser window for the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event and triggers
one of two other actions if the specified condition is true or false. You can choose among four actions to be the
condition: Intersection, KeyCompare, Timeout, and Test Variable. To monitor multiple occurrences of an event in a
session, set up an Idle action.
Trigger the action with a browser-triggered event set to OnLoad or a user-triggered event. Choose Action >
Specials > Conditions. In the Condition tab of the Actions palette, choose one of the four conditions from the
Action > Specials or Action > Variables menu. In the True tab, specify an action to be executed when the specified
condition evaluates to true. In the False tab, specify an action to be executed when the specified condition evaluates
to false. For example, if you have an image on your page, you can use the Set Image URL action to swap the image
content based on the result of the condition action.