# Operator Actions

> Every show operation — Cut, a scene to Preview, an overlay, the next PlayList row, the next track — as an action that a key, a Stream Deck button or the remote API can run.

Glider documentation · Logic · Web page: https://cgglider.com/docs/actions/

Sections of this page: [Overview](https://cgglider.com/docs/actions.md) · [Action types](https://cgglider.com/docs/actions/types.md) · [Keys, deck & remote](https://cgglider.com/docs/actions/triggers.md) · [Sequences](https://cgglider.com/docs/actions/sequence.md)

What an action is, and how to make one.

An action is one operation of the show, and it does exactly what its button does: Cut, Quick Play, a scene to Preview, an overlay on Program, Take Next on the PlayList, Play Next on the audio playlist. Logic › Actions lists the page's actions. They are saved with the page, so they travel with the show.

1. Menu bar → Logic → Actions, then Add action.
2. Pick a type. Search by name, or narrow the list with the group chips: Switcher, PlayList, Media Playout, Audio Playlist, Mixer, Graphics, Outputs, Sequence.
3. Fill in what it needs — a scene, an overlay number, Toggle, On or Off.
4. Give it a shortcut, put it on a Stream Deck key, or name it for the remote API.
5. Run tries it at once, exactly as its key would.

| Field | Does |
| --- | --- |
| Shortcut | Record, then press the keys. The note under the field names the editor command the key shadows. A key belongs to one action: recording it on another action moves it there. |
| Stream Deck | Put on a key: pick a key of the deck. The key lights from the action's state. The page must be saved first. |
| Remote | Name the action to call it as Action Name=… over TCP, OSC or HTTP. Unnamed, the type itself can be sent with its fields. |
| Run / Duplicate / Delete | Run it now; copy it with its settings; remove it. A Stream Deck key whose action is gone shows Missing action. |

> **One Preview for everything:** The Multiview, the console, every key and the remote API share one Preview scene, saved with the page. Cut and Quick Play put the old Program back on Preview, so a key, a stinger and a click on the console always agree on what comes next.