I have two scenes in my project (Scene 1 and Scene 2) and Scene 1 includes a persistent symbol only added to that scene. I can start the symbols’s timeline with this script triggered from within the same scene: hypeDocument.getSymbolInstanceById('Progress').startTimelineNamed('Main Timeline', hypeD…

[image] grzesiek.rogala: However, I would also like to start the symbols’s timeline from the second scene. I added the script above to the second scene but it does not work. Is this even possible? Interesting use case! I can't recall our reason for not allowing a persistent symbol to be looke…

Symbol_state.hype.zip (38.5 KB) i’d say, if the symbol is just on one scene it does not have to be persistent … anyway … you can save the state on the click-behavior and check it on sceneload … to mention: @MaxZieb wrote an extension to cache the symbol-object, but I’m not sure at the moment if y…

You actually cannot because the Hype runtime (re)moves the symbol from the scene and invalidates the access or rather the command hypeDocument.getSymbolInstanceById only return symbols on the current scene. Additionally, behind the scenes (in the HTML) if you inspect it: The persistent symbols HTML…

Here is how Hype Symbol Instance VS: Hype Persistent Symbols are moved around:

Here is what is happening in your case: – Both animations also have a regular symbols in them to illustrate that they are always destroyed and recreated. This goes even a bit further on the API-Side because everytime you request a symbolInstance the Runtime returns a JavaScript Object wi…

Works like a charm! Thanks Jonathan!

Thanks for the detailed explanation Max. I’m working on a project that has the overview of all scenes in the first scene and need some kind of progress tracking to be displayed in the first scene based on various user actions in other scenes. I will look into your HypeSymbol Cache as I wast to learn…

[image] jonathan: Another workaround would be to use a custom behavior . You could add one inside the persistent symbol (I call it “starter”) that starts the main timeline. Then you can either use the Trigger Custom Behavior… action or the hypeDocument.triggerCustomBehaviorNamed('starter') I w…

[image] jonathan: Another workaround would be to use a custom behavior . You could add one inside the persistent symbol (I call it “starter”) that starts the main timeline. Then you can either use the Trigger Custom Behavior… action or the hypeDocument.triggerCustomBehaviorNamed('starter'); API. …

[image] MarkHunte: hypeDocument.customData.sym = hypeDocument.getSymbolInstanceById('Progress') That's a really cool technique! If you are doing it on symbol load you don't even need to bother giving the symbol an ID; the "element" passed into the function is the symbol. So you could do: hyp…

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