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So, I have a Tessera setup, and we're doing Player Presentations on the big LED screen in our arena before a game. All good!
I populate the datafields on those templates by using %relid% within a group. And it works perfectly. There's even some scripting going on where I can check if we have a greenscreen video of the player, if not it defaults to his picture instead and animates the same length etc etc...

However, I would very much like to trigger some of the LED boards around the arena as well at the same time.
But I dont know the perfect time/lenght of the scene directors before, so I cant just create "the same" in a different format and take those online as well.

What I wanted to try and do is the following:

1. In the "main scene" running on the main screen. OnOnline, get its own TakeID from the sequencer.
2. Manipulate that sequencer with +100.
3. Take online that new TakeID wich would then be the LED boards with it's datalinq values being the same %relid%.

Horrible formulation of my question really.
Let me just rephrase into way simpler terms..

In the DataLinq properties of the Template Data for a scene in the Sequencer, you can right click, and insert %takeid% as a macro for getting the scenes takeid and grab that row for example in the DataLinq properties...

Is there a way to access the same info in the script editor within a scene? I want to do the following...

1. Get the takeid as a variable in the script (ie. 101)
2. Manipulate that takeid with say +100 (ie. 201)
3. Then use the execute function of the xpBaseTakeItem based on the new takeid to take another scene online from the first one...

So, I have a Tessera setup, and we're doing Player Presentations on the big LED screen in our arena before a game. All good!
I populate the datafields on those templates by using %relid% within a group. And it works perfectly. There's even some scripting going on where I can check if we have a greenscreen video of the player, if not it defaults to his picture instead and animates the same length etc etc...

However, I would very much like to trigger some of the LED boards around the arena as well at the same time.
But I dont know the perfect time/lenght of the scene directors before, so I cant just create "the same" in a different format and take those online as well.

What I wanted to try and do is the following:

1. In the "main scene" running on the main screen. OnOnline, get its own TakeID from the sequencer.
2. Manipulate that sequencer with +100.
3. Take online that new TakeID wich would then be the LED boards with it's datalinq values being the same %relid%.

Horrible formulation of my question really.
Let me just rephrase into way simpler terms..

In the DataLinq properties of the Template Data for a scene in the Sequencer, you can right click, and insert %takeid% as a macro for getting the scenes takeid and grab that row for example in the DataLinq properties...

Is there a way to access the same info in the script editor within a scene? I want to do the following...

1. Get the takeid as a variable in the script (ie. 101)
2. Manipulate that takeid with say +100 (ie. 201)
3. Then use the execute function of the xpBaseTakeItem based on the new takeid to take another scene online from the first one...

So, I have a Tessera setup, and we're doing Player Presentations on the big LED screen in our arena before a game. All good!
I populate the datafields on those templates by using %relid% within a group. And it works perfectly. There's even some scripting going on where I can check if we have a greenscreen video of the player, if not it defaults to his picture instead and animates the same length etc etc...

However, I would very much like to trigger some of the LED boards around the arena as well at the same time.
But I dont know the perfect time/lenght of the scene directors before, so I cant just create "the same" in a different format and take those online as well.

What I wanted to try and do is the following:

1. In the "main scene" running on the main screen. OnOnline, get its own TakeID from the sequencer.
2. Manipulate that sequencer with +100.
3. Take online that new TakeID wich would then be the LED boards with it's datalinq values being the same %relid%.

Hey Alek,

You can get take ID's from scripts. 

dim take1 as xpTakeItem

engine.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

take1.execute

Because its Tessera I think you'll need to use project instead of engine;

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)


So I think to do what you want to do it would look something like;

dim take1, take2 as xpTakeItem

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

project.sequencer.getTakeItemByID(take1.ID + 100,take2)

take2.execute

Hey Alek,

You can get take ID's from scripts. 

dim take1 as xpTakeItem

engine.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

take1.execute

Because its Tessera I think you'll need to use project instead of engine;

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)


So I think to do what you want to do it would look something like;

dim take1, take2 as xpTakeItem

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

project.sequencer.getTakeItemByID(take1.ID + 100,take2)

take2.execute

Hey Alek,

You can get take ID's from scripts. 

dim take1 as xpTakeItem

engine.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

take1.execute

Because its Tessera I think you'll need to use project instead of engine;

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)


So I think to do what you want to do it would look something like;

dim take1, take2 as xpTakeItem

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

project.sequencer.getTakeItemByID(take1.ID + 100,take2)

take2.execute

@Simon Redmile Yes and no...

The script does what you'd think, and it does trigger with the engine object to call other scenes.
However... I cannot use the ​getFocusedTakeItem to get the takeid of the scene that goes online...

Reason for this is that item that is in focus is the group upon wich the different scenes are within, and that group is set to auto, meaning the focused item is still the group, and not the actual scene that goes online...

Kinda thinking I should fall back on the other suggestion about calling the value from a text field in order to get it done instead.
Unless there's another option to get a scene to refer to itself instead in scripting (not that I can spot...)

Hey Alek,

You can get take ID's from scripts. 

dim take1 as xpTakeItem

engine.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

take1.execute

Because its Tessera I think you'll need to use project instead of engine;

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)


So I think to do what you want to do it would look something like;

dim take1, take2 as xpTakeItem

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

project.sequencer.getTakeItemByID(take1.ID + 100,take2)

take2.execute

@Simon Redmile Yes and no...

The script does what you'd think, and it does trigger with the engine object to call other scenes.
However... I cannot use the ​getFocusedTakeItem to get the takeid of the scene that goes online...

Reason for this is that item that is in focus is the group upon wich the different scenes are within, and that group is set to auto, meaning the focused item is still the group, and not the actual scene that goes online...

Kinda thinking I should fall back on the other suggestion about calling the value from a text field in order to get it done instead.
Unless there's another option to get a scene to refer to itself instead in scripting (not that I can spot...)

Hey Alek,

You can get take ID's from scripts. 

dim take1 as xpTakeItem

engine.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

take1.execute

Because its Tessera I think you'll need to use project instead of engine;

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)


So I think to do what you want to do it would look something like;

dim take1, take2 as xpTakeItem

project.sequencer.getFocusedTakeItem(take1)

project.sequencer.getTakeItemByID(take1.ID + 100,take2)

take2.execute