Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 101721
allow for conditional slides or branches in a presentation
Last modified: 2010-02-06 15:07:54 UTC
Currently, presentations have a fixed linear progression. I would like to be able to make a slide that I can choose to call up, depending on the circumstances, without necessarily including it in the main flow of the presentation. For example, I am teaching a class about energy conversion technlogies. I would like to have (an) extra slide(s) explaining catalysis in case a student asks a question about it. However, if no question comes (depending on the audience which I don't exactly know in advance), I can just continue with the lecture. I would like to be able to either bind extra slides to a button (keyboard or widget), and/or have a tree structure in the slide sorter so that I can cluster pieces of information and presentation. There is already a presentation extension that can preview the next slide and show notes, so it might be possible to extend this to show branch options as well.
Reassigned
If you want to call optional slides, you can create a graphic and bound an action to it. You can do the same on the optional slide to get back to the main track. I don't see a need to implement this in another way. If you want to extend the Presenter Console extension (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/presenter-screen), you should add your ideas to the wiki page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen That is not an valid issue for the presentation modul of OOo.
closing