Getting users to take photos and then record a video

Updated: Jan 2021

When you create a RightBooth event you can design it so that your users have a choice of either recording a video or taking some photos, but what if you want to force your users to do both without giving them a choice?  This article two methods on how to achieve this.

Solution 1 - Use the Workflow Sequence
This is the easiest solution:

• Run RightBooth
• Go to the Event Designer
• In the Event type tab,  click 'Video' and 'Photo' tick boxes to include both recording types in your events
• In the section 'Workflow for multiple recording types' section, tick: Recording types shown in sequence'
• In the list, click the 'Video' item and click the down arrow to move it below the 'Photo(s)' item:

Solution 2 - Use Event Flow
Event flow allows you to design multiple event files that have different functions and then make them run in a particular sequence, giving your users the impression that they are running a single event.  In this solution we will use RightBooth's event flow features to solve the problem posed above by using two event files and linking them together.

Create Two Event Files

• Run RightBooth
• From the main screen, click the New button to create a new event
• Then click Save As to save this event file with the name photos
• Now click the New button to create a second new event
• Click Save As again and save this event file with the name videos

Design the photos event file

Open the photos event file and set the following event design properties...

• Event Design --> Event Type --> Tick Photo(s) and untick Video
• Event Design --> Event structure -->  Untick the Thankyou screen
• Event Design --> Event flow -->  On completion, start...  Select next event then click Browse and choose your videos event file.

Save the photos event file.

Design the video event file

Now open the videos event file and set the following...

• Event Design --> Event Type --> Tick Video and untick Photo(s)
• Event Design --> Event structure --> Untick the Start screen
• Event Design --> Event flow --> On completion, start...  Select next event then click Browse and choose your photos event file.
• Event Design --> Event flow --> On cancel, start...  Select next event then click Browse and choose your photos event file.
• Event Design --> Event flow --> On timeout, start...  Select next event then click Browse and choose the photos event file.

Save the videos event file.

How it works

You are now ready to test the event flow.  Open the photos event file again and start the event.
Here is what will happen...

• The user will be presented with the Start screen
• The user will then be asked to take a photo (or photos).
• After the photos have been taken, RightBooth will automatically open the videos event file
• The user will then be asked to record a video
• When the video recording is complete, the Thank you screen will be displayed
• RightBooth will then automatically open the photos event file again (at the Start screen) ready to repeat this process for the next user.