This article contains random tips and tricks we and our customers have come across in our work with Intuiface. If you have a tip or trick you'd like to share, tell us!

Excel filtering sequence loop

If you need to change content every few seconds using data coming from an excel list, you can combine a Simple Counter and a timer with the Excel as follows:

• Add an ID column in your Excel file
• On your timer, using conditional triggers:
  • If the counter value equals the total number of texts, reset the counter.
  • if the counter value doesn't equal the total number of texts, call the add one action on the Counter and call an add Filter action on your Excel file, to filter the ID column using the counter value.
• Bind the changing content to the Row 1 of your Excel file: it will display the filtering result, as explained in this article.

To see the theory in action, download this sample experience.

Select image and display it on a different scene

Sometimes you may need to bring content from one scene to another. You can achieve this using Triggers and Actions as follows:

• WHEN - image (on scene 1) - is tapped - THEN - Image (on scene 2) - Change image

There are two things to pay attention to when setting or changing content on a different scene.

1) Make sure you are targeting assets on the correct scene. The image below illustrates how to select the target scene

2) Remove the "Reset all asset properties" on scene entry, so that when entering the scene the previously set content is preserved.

To see the theory in action, download this sample experience.

Browse file-system to upload media

An "upload media" function in your experience is useful to help your customer update the media of the experience without having knowledge about the project's file structure.

Using the Launch Application action, you can open the content of collection folders directly from Intuiface. The Launch Application action can be triggered by on screen gestures or an invisible button in your experience, so that the end user will not have access to it directly.

For the sample experience to work, you must extract the content of the zip file directly under c:\ or change the target location in the Launch Application action's Parameters.

To see the theory in action, download this sample experience.