Prerequisites: flipchart-based activity, design mode enabled
All flipchart objects come with a series of behaviours.
Behaviours… Why? #
You can use behaviours to enhance or limit the experience the participants will have using them during the experiential activity.
You do this, of course, to serve your purpose – for example:
- you can activate Flip/Flippable/Reverse timeout for 2 seconds to a set of notes, to add complexity and fun to your activity, or
- you can set it to No Rotation so that the participants can focus more on the content and maximise the work time of a time-boxed activity.
The series of behaviours is visible when the design mode is enabled. To enable it, click on the Design button in the top left corner of the screen.
![Enable Design mode in Colltrain](https://docs.colltrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/enable-design-mode-colltrain.png)
The behaviours tab is the last one you see on the right of the flipchart object’s individual toolbar.
![](https://docs.colltrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/toolbar-behaviours-tab-notes-object.png)
The list of common object behaviours #
Most of the flipchart objects include the following behaviours:
- No toolbar (object cannot be edited in any way by the participants)
- Fixed (object cannot be moved on the board even if its toolbar can be accessed by the participants during the activity)
- Non-removable (object cannot be deleted even if the toolbar can be accessed by participants during the activity)
- Non-transferable (object cannot be moved to another page of the activity, even if the toolbar can be accessed by participants)
- Non-duplicable (prevents the accidental duplicates that may appear while participants get familiar with the object and its toolbar)
- Preserve layer (the object will remain in front/get behind other objects during the activity, just like you set it from the Layers tab)
- Read-only (all behaviours are fully restricted just by clicking on this option)
- Non-resizable (object’s size cannot be edited)
- Flip (set an object to flip to add some dynamic to your activity; set the time you wish for the object to be facing upwards or to be completely inaccessible with the 2 options here: reverse timeout and flip lock interval)
- Rotation (set the object’s rotation to continuous, sequential or none, depending on your activity type or your preferences)
![Example - Note Object - Behaviours](https://docs.colltrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/note-object-behaviours.png)
There are also a few particular behaviours, applicable to certain flipchart objects.
- Image – Overlay (choose whether the overlay you set to an image to be shown or hidden while hovering over with the mouse)
- Tables – Rows & Cols (you may want to prevent adding unwanted rows or columns to your table during the activity and this is the option you’re looking for to do it)