Buttons

Button

Buttons are interactive touch elements. They show up as buttons on your slides and you can tap them to activate them:

  • When using an external screen, you can tap buttons in the Moderator Monitor Preview
  • When using the current device, you can just tap them on your screen

Insertion

There is currently no button or shortcut to insert a button. The easiest way is to just type it out or to insert a website and modify the label.

The syntax for buttons is very close to images or websites:


![button::Hyperdeck Help](https://docs.hyperdeck.io)


This tells Hyperdeck to insert a button with the label Hyperdeck Help and to open the URL https://docs.hyperdeck.io when you tap it.




The label always comes after a button:: prefix that tells hyperdeck that this is a button, and not an image. The action can be any URL, including shortcuts and Hyperdeck's custom actions.

Here is a example of running a shortcut named Take Picture which will open the Camera


![button::Take Picture](shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Take%20Picture)
Note

Hyperdeck does not yet support x-fallback, so you can't automatically jump back to Hyperdeck at the end of a shortcut. You'd have to switch manually.

Custom Hyperdeck Interactions

Hyperdeck also supports interactions. You can tell it what to do when the user taps a button. This is useful to create simple interactive presentations. For example, you could ask the audience if they already used technology X and have two buttons yes / no which jump to different parts of your presentation.

This is explained in more detail here

As a quick example, this button will jump to slide 30.


![button::Yes](hyper://action/jump/30)