What is a Dynamic Activity in a SpringBoard?
A Dynamic Activity is an already created activity that you choose an icon or an icon sequence to represent.
Once you make an activity dynamic, you can be in any other activity, activate the icon you selected for your dynamic activity, speak a message from it and return automatically to the original activity.
Let's say you have a "Baking Cookies" Activity and you want to make it dynamic.
To Make an Activity Dynamic:
1. Go to the Toolbox and activate DYNAMIC ACTIVITY MENU.
2. Make sure that the Dynamic Activities box is set to ON.
3. Make sure that the Activity Persistence box says Temporary. (This means the activity stays dynamic for one
activation only, then takes you back to where you were. If you want to remain in the activity, select Permanent).
4. Activate Add Dynamic Activity.
5. Select a sequence (a one-icon sequence is quickest) from your overlay that will remind you of the activity. You
will not mask any vocabulary when you select a sequence for an activity. The current dynamic activity will be replaced. Activate OK.
6. Now activate the Cookies activity (or any activity you want to be your dynamic activity). Use MORE ITEMS key if necessary to find your activity.
7. Activate OK. Activate OK in the Toolbox.
To Test your Dynamic Activity:
Go to Minspeak and activate the icon in your core vocabulary that you selected in Step 5.
The Cookies activity opens. Activate an icon in the activity. The word is spoken and you return to
your original activity.
TIP: Since a Dynamic Activity is intended to be selected from an icon or an icon sequence, you may not want to see a Dynamic Activity listed in your standard activity row. Use the Hide Activity option in the ACTIVITY menu to keep a Dynamic Activity from being visible in the standard activity row.
See Modify an Activity for further instructions if needed.