Triggers and Actions

Triggers and actions are used by document authors to dynamically control what happens in the student’s browser.

Note: Triggers and actions do not support all the server side Obojobo Events. See the supported values for type on action’s documentation.

Triggers

A trigger node listens to a certain event and performs an action when it occurs.

Actions

An action is the change that occurs as the result of a event being heard by a trigger.

Example

Below is an example of a Button that starts an assessment when clicked.

<ActionButton label="Begin">
  <triggers>
    <trigger type="onClick">
      <actions>
        <action type="assessment:startAttempt">
          <value id="assessment">
        </action>
      </actions>
    </trigger>
  </triggers>
</ActionButton>