Triggers plugin

This plugin allows you to trigger GuideChimp events such as "next", "previous", "stop" or your custom events upon HTML DOM elements events.

You can set up triggers globally and for each step individually.

Use Cases

• Interact seamlessly with your web application
• Show user new function in the system and automatically continue to the next tour step after user performed suggested action

Installation

Please refer to the plugins' installation and configuration Wiki page.

Note: Commercial GuideChimp plugins require a valid customer account with the assigned plan and additional configuration, which will be used to validate the availability of particular GuideChimp functions or plugins for the given customer account.

How To Use

<div class="next">Next</div>
<div class="previous">Previous</div>
<div class="stop">Stop</div>

<div id="step1">First step</div>
<div id="step2">First step</div>
<div id="step3">Third step</div>
<div><button id="startTour" class="start-tour">Start Tour</button></div>
<script>
GuideChimp.extend(guideChimpPluginTriggers);

     var tour = [
        {
            element: '#step1',
            title: 'Step 1',
            description: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
            // step triggers
            triggers: {
                next: '#step1',
            },       
        },
        {
            element: '#step2',
            title: 'Step 2',
            description: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
             // step triggers
             triggers: {
                 next: '#step2',
             },  
        },
        {
            element: '#step3',
            title: 'Step 3',
            description: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
            // step triggers
            triggers: {
                 stop: '#step3',
            },  
        },
    ];

    var guide = GuideChimp(tour, {
        // global triggers
        triggers: {
            next: '.next',
            previous: '.previous',
            stop: '.stop',
        },   
    });

    document.getElementById('startTour').onclick = () => {
        guide.start();
    }
</script>

Trigger can be one of: CSS-selector, HTMLElement, NodeList or object. Moreover, you can define a single trigger or array of triggers.

const previousHTMLElement = document.querySelector('.previous');
const stopNodeList = document.querySelector('.stop');

var guide = GuideChimp(tour, {
        // global triggers
        triggers: {
            next: '.next',
            previous: previousHTMLElement,
            stop: ['.close', stopNodeList],
        },   
    });

By default string(selector), HTMLElement and NodeList triggers use "click" event. Use the trigger object to change an event or event listener function.

var guide = GuideChimp(tour, {
        // global triggers
        triggers: {
            next: {
                element: '.next',    // mandatory property
                event: 'dblclick',   // optional, by default "click"
                listener(e) {        // optional, use if you want to change the standard trigger behavior
                    var el = e.target;                    

                    if (el.dataset.step) {
                       this.go(el.dataset.step);
                    } else {
                      this.next();
                    }    
                },       
            },
        },   
    });

Examples

• Triggers plugin example at CodePen - https://codepen.io/netlicensing/full/PoPawdv