Guidance on use of custom "Run action" feature about freeshow

[colanct]

Thank you; that helps. I'll experiment with a MIDI loop.
I've logged issue #641 re not finding the specified slide name.

[vassbo]

1. An action can play a slide by name or index on the currently selected show, that should work. You might have to set an action to change the show also. But you can also right click a slide if you want a specific show and slide, and use the activate by MIDI signal. This uses MIDI, but you can use an action to send that MIDI signal and route it back using e.g. MIDI loop.
2. It selects the first slide in the currently selected show with a matching name. If you have the group name e.g. "Verse 1", you can type "ver" and it will play that slide.
3. It's the name that's on the slide. This can be renamed to something unique.
4. This is only useful if the action has a "Custom activation", so you can turn on/off the action if you just want to do something specific for that show when e.g. the timer has ended.