Trouble with Lightbox Composition and triggers

Question

I find working with the lightbox composition and triggers utterly infuriating!
I am trying to build a page with multiple lightbox compositions on it and I want each lightbox (and each slide within) to be identical - i.e. all to be the same size image frame, the same size text frame and styles etc. I have set up one with 6 slides and can copy and paste this down the page, but I am trying to add more triggers (and images) on some lightboxes and this is where I have difficulty. When I click the 'add trigger' button it adds another trigger but doesn't add the image frame or text frame. I then try to copy and paste the image and text frames onto the space but instead of this working as expected it simply adds the image on top of all the other images (and my previous and next buttons). If I try to 'send backwards' it puts the image frame behind the main container.
Is there a way to add a trigger so that it basically duplicates the previous slide into the next, where I could then simply change the image and text?
I also want all but the first of the triggers to be invisible. Is there a view mode that shows frame edges (as you can in InDesign) so I can see where the other triggers are? Currently I make all the triggers a solid colour until just before I publish the site when I make them all invisible. However once published if I need to edit the site I can't go back in a quickly select all the triggers, I have to stab around blindly until I happen to select them. It would be great if there was a way to view the frame edges - this would also make it handy when moving items so you don't overlap them inadvertantly, or would show me if I have an empty frame sitting somewhere.

Answer 1

As of now every new trigger you add you get a blank target frame without any of the contents from the previous slide. You may submit this as an idea to either allow to add new frames based on a defined template or allow an existing frame to be duplicated.
For now, you can copy all the objects in an existing frame and copy them. Then select the target frame and do an Edit > Paste in place. This would paste the content on top of the widget (not part of the target frame yet). Now with the content still selected click on one of the objects with mouse and nudge the selected objects a little bit (a pixel or two) - this would add them to the target slide. Then you can again select them and nudge them back in place as required.
For selecting transparent triggers, you can select the one visible trigger and then right-click/ctrl+click and choose "Select Same (Trigger)". This would select all the triggers in the widget and allow you to set fill or stroke to them all at once.
Cheers,
Vikas