Duty action in macro?

Is there any way to add the duty action to a macro, to make it easy to drop into a bar slot temporarily, as opposed to rebinding a key to the duty action?

You can just put Duty Action 1 and/or Duty Action 2 on your hotbar, no need for a macro.

Flip through the actions/traits menu and look for "Duty Action". Probably under "General" or something.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

You can just put Duty Action 1 and/or Duty Action 2 on your hotbar, no need for a macro.

Flip through the actions/traits menu and look for "Duty Action". Probably under "General" or something.

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I knew about that, but was trying to avoid it. With a macro, I can just open macros and drag and drop it into the already-bound bar slot. (6 seconds), with no need to restore to original unless I had been using something else in the slot that I still need.

With direct the duty bind, I have to go into the binding menu, switch to hotbars, scroll to the bottom, and bind the mouse button, losing it's original binding. When done, I have to go back into the bindings, find the bar my multi-use slot is on(6), count down to the bar slot on screen(9), and rebind it to the mouse button. (50 sec round trip)

In WoW, I kept my extra action button macro in an unused, unbound slot, and when I needed it, I just dragged it into the slot bound to M4. No need to even open the macros interface. I could do it in about 1 second, even mid battle.
(Mouse4 is bound to a slot I reserve for temporary use, such as quest usable items, or the Aether Compass.)

What's the difference between using a macro to do this versus using the placeholder command to do it? The Duty Action 1 and 2 commands will auto-replace themselves with any duty action.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

I knew about that, but was trying to avoid it. With a macro, I can just open macros and drag and drop it into the already-bound bar slot. (6 seconds), with no need to restore to original unless I had been using something else in the slot that I still need.

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Here is an alternative suggestion then (still not perfect, but certainly fewer clicks).

I have a hotbar (shared across all jobs) for stuff that I use on rare occasions. Gearsets for DoL jobs, "Dig" for maps, Chocobo summoning / dismissal, stuff like that.
I have a second shared hotbar that has two macros on it. One macro shows the previously-mentioned hotbar, one hides it.

If you wanted, you could setup something similar, so you could readily access and drag over the duty action from a separate hotbar as needed.

It's certainly not perfect, but I don't believe there is a command you can put in a macro to execute the duty action. If there is, I would be very pleased to know about it.

Duty Action and Duty Action II are General actions, so you should be able to write them to a hotbar slot with the /hotbar or /chotbar commands.

/hotbar general "Duty Action" barNum slotNum
/hotbar general "Duty Action II" barNum slotNum

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Duty Action and Duty Action II are General actions, so you should be able to write them to a hotbar slot with the /hotbar or /chotbar commands.

/hotbar general "Duty Action" barNum slotNum
/hotbar general "Duty Action II" barNum slotNum

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Thank you. This will let me quickly set the duty action to my M4 bound hotbar slot. Later, when I need that slot for something else, like the Aether Compass, I can just drag it into that slot. Just one click needed instead of two trips deep into the bindings menu.

Edit: I just stumbled across another way, I was in the Actions and Traits menu, and noticed the General category, which you had mentioned. Under there are icons for Duty Action 1/2 So, all I really had to do was drag one of them into my M4 slot.
The macro is still a bit quicker, since I don't have to open the actions menu or unlock the bars if dragging from another slot).

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

... when I need that slot for something else, like the Aether Compass, I can just drag it into that slot.
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The macro is still a bit quicker, since I don't have to open the actions menu or unlock the bars if dragging from another slot).

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If you prefer the macro versions to dragging the duty actions, there are macro versions for other possibilities as well, like:

/hotbar item "Aether Compass" barNum slotNum

... unless that's just an example and there's actually too many possibilities for setting up macros for each to be practical. But the /hotbar command can do quite a lot:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d/0992946f68f/

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

Is there any way to add the duty action to a macro, to make it easy to drop into a bar slot temporarily, as opposed to rebinding a key to the duty action?

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/gaction "Duty Action I" <t>
/micon "Duty Action I"

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Originally Posted by Omnia

/gaction "Duty Action I" <t>
/micon "Duty Action I"

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*gets a shovel and tries to ressurect this old Thread*

Does someone knows how /gaction "Duty Action I" <t> or even better /ac "Duty Action I" is translated for the german client.

That would be awesome!

The DE version of Eorzea Database says:

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Originally Posted by Eorzea-Datenbank

/allgkom, /generalaction, /gaction
VERWENDUNG:
allgkom "[Kommando]" [Variable zur Zielbestimmung]
→ Wendet das Kommando auf das Ziel an.
>>Zielbestimmung:
<1>-<8> Führt das Kommando auf Gruppenmitglied 1 - 8 aus.
<t>, <target> Führt das Kommando auf das anvisierte Ziel aus. Bei Bodenziel-Kommandos wird das Kommando am Standort des Ziels ausgelöst.
bzaus (gtoff) Das Bodenziel-Kommando wird direkt ohne Starten des Bodenziel-Modus an der Stelle des Zeigers ausgelöst.

>>Beispiel:
/allgkom "Reittier-Roulette"
Führt das Reittier-Roulette aus.
/allgkom "Spezialkommando 1" <t>
Führt „Spezialkommando 1“ auf das Ziel aus.

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