User Guide

Chapter 7 Creating Menus Using the Standard Method 297
Dragging Multiple Existing Stories to an Empty Area
The following option appears in the Drop Palette:
Create Buttons
The default action.
• For each story, creates a button.
• Assigns each story as its button’s asset.
• Adds a link from the new buttons to each story’s first video clip.
• Sets each story’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Dragging a Slideshow to an Empty Area
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
Create Button
The default action.
• Creates a button at this menu location.
• Assigns the first slide to its thumbnail.
• Adds a link from the new button to the slideshow.
• Sets the slideshow’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Create Button and Chapter Index
Note: If the menu contains no buttons, drop zones, or text objects, then this option
changes to Create Chapter Index. Instead of creating a separate menu as the first chapter
index menu, this menu is used. Additional chapter index menus are created if necessary.
• Creates a button on this menu to link to the first of the new chapter index menus.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus, depending on the number of slides
and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can choose the template
or layout style to use for the chapter index menus.
• Links each slide from the slideshow to buttons in the chapter index menus.
• Assigns the picture from each slide to its button’s thumbnail.
• Sets the slideshow’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Dragging a Slideshow to a Button
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
Set Asset
The default action.
• Sets the first slide’s image to be the button’s thumbnail.
• Adds a link from the button to the slideshow.
• Sets the slideshow’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).