Duty action in macro?

[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?

[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.

[SamSmoot]

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.

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.)

[Callinon]

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.

[Raldo]

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.

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.

[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

[SamSmoot]

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

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).

[Niwashi]

... when I need that slot for something else, like the Aether Compass, I can just drag it into that 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).

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/

[Omnia]

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?

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

[Kalduris]

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

*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!