Duplicating Buttons and Actions?

I am creating an Interactive PDF and will be using buttons to show and hide many of the features. I would like to replicate many of the buttons and the actions. However, when I try and copy and paste (or use option) to do this actions attached to the button would not export to the PDF. Is there anything I can do to fix this or accomplish the same thing?

If a button is not working correctly, here are the typical culprits.
1. PDF viewer. Interactive elements may not work on various PDF viewers, but in your case, you're using Reader.
2. Corruption. An Indesign document (especially one with with many interactive elements) can become corrupt. Export to IDML, open IDML back into ID, export to PDF and test.
3. Faulty Inspection. A button can be a complex interaction of actions, events and visibility. A button can have multiple actions assigned to multiple events. The complexity is compounded with many buttons using show/hide actions. The task of determining whether all attributes are applied correctly is tedious. Make sure to toggle each event in panel and inspect each action, along with checking the visibility of other buttons.

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Hi there,
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Heiko
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Hi Heiko,
You have done everything correctly....except for 1 line
in the code...
Replace the following line in your code:
actionAddElement.getActionParameters().addParameter("featureIndex", new Integer(i).toString());
Replace the above line with this code:
button.mappingOfOnAction().addParameter("featureIndex",i);
Actually in your code, you are not associating the parameter with the button...
Note that addParameter(...) comes with two signatures: addParameter(String param, String value) and addParameter(String param, int value). You can use any of them based on yuor need.
Hope it helps,
Thanks and Regards,
Vishnu Prasad Hegde

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hi,
i've modify your code. but i've commented your some original code because i was getting error...
please check the code...
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Message was edited by: gtaylor0406

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first of all, pardon me for my english and if I post questions already answered, but I can't find anything about that.
I'm new to flash and I decided to use Flash Catalyst to speed up the building process of a multimedia presentation for university.
I have a menu with 10 buttons that change a text box on rollover (I converted it to a button label) and I need to reset the name of the current page on RollOut. Since the action sequence for it is the same of every button on one page, is there a faster way to apply the sequence than repeating it for every button? (I had to do it 10x10=100 times... and what if I made some mistake? )
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This could be happening for a couple of reasons. The good news is its easily fixable, and you have options.
Option 1.
From your explanation of the problem I am assuming you are using static text inside your MCs.
First, find out what's really happening with your two mcs.
make sure you aren't using 2 of the same clip (either the original or the duplicate).Not the instance names, but the actual names of the clip as found in the Library.
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Option 2.
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