Selections are a key component of this module. With names of Zoom participants automatically appearing on your keys, selections allow you to designate which users to act upon. There are many workflows for selection, including single-selection, multi-selection, and groups.

Select from Participants
This is a Preset Category of buttons as well as a variable reference representing the participants in the meeting in a largely static list. The order of members in the list will not generally change unless ZoomOSC/ISO leaves and rejoins the meeting. New participants are added to the end of the list, and participants who leave the meeting are removed from the list (decrementing the indices of subsequent users in the list). You can apply a global offset to the group indices using the Next Participants and Previous Participants actions.

Select from Participants is helpful when you don’t want your buttons to automatically change which participants they are tied to because of in-meeting actions by the participants. It is a simple list without many external behavior associations or dependencies, which makes it helpful in many use cases.

Select from Gallery
This is a Preset Category of buttons as well as a variable reference representing the participants in the meeting based upon their order in the Gallery View of ZoomOSC/ISO (linearized top left to bottom right). This list will change order automatically based on any of the factors that can influence the gallery view order, including hand raising, speaking, enabling video, manual reorder, pagination, resizing, and more. The list will never contain more members than those visually represented on screen in the Zoom Gallery View, so it has a maximum length of 49. It is essential that ZoomOSC/ISO be in gallery view in order for this list to be accurate.

Select from Gallery is helpful for having a visual correspondence between the buttons and the Zoom interface, especially if the Zoom window is resized so that both the StreamDeck and the Gallery View have the same arrangement of participants in terms of rows and columns. Furthermore, the behaviors that influence the order of the Zoom Gallery View often correspond to the relevancy of those participants to the meeting, making it easy to find key individuals to act upon without requiring an extensive search.

Single vs Multi Selection Mode
The module has a concept of a selection mode that can be set to either Single Selection or Multi Selection. In Multi Selection mode, you can tap on a participant once to select them, and then tap on them again to deselect them. In Single Selection mode, tapping on a participant will select them and automatically deselect any previous selection.

For actions that can be applied to many participants at once, Multi Selection is helpful, whereas for actions that can only function on a single participant, Single Selection is ideal.

Selection Management and Action References
By default, most actions will act upon the selected participants. You can override this behavior by entering a username of the participant to act upon, or entering the macro string “Me” to reference your personal user. If the username field is blank, the module will reference the selection. If the action only accepts one participant, but multiple participants are selected, the action will be taken on the first user to be selected.

The module respects the order of selections, so when acting on multiple participants, the actions will first be taken on the first members to be selected, and then finish with the participants most recently added to the selection. This is important for commands like Add Spotlight, where the order of selection will determine the visual order of the spotlit users.

There are several variables and actions to help you manage the selection process available in the module. For example, since actions do not automatically deselect the participants acted upon, you can add a “Clear Selections” action to deselect them.

Groups
One of the most powerful features of this module is the ability to place participants into groups. Just like participants, groups are referenceable and selectable. You can index into groups with variables to display their members. In fact buttons with these properties are automatically available in the Presets area under “Manage Selections and Groups” by automatically generating new buttons based on the number of groups specified in the module setup.

Groups can have a variety of purposes. For example, you might make a group called “Favorites” that contains the subset of users in your meeting that you will actually need to interact with. Then, you could have a page that shows who is in the Favorites group so you can select them and act upon them individually or together. Alternatively, you could have several groups representing the members of different panel conversations. Once the users are placed in the different panelist groups, you can select all members of a panel at once simply by selecting the corresponding group itself, and applying an action like Add Spotlight to the entire group.

There is a default group called “Hosts” created and managed by the module itself. Its members are the host and co-host(s) of the meeting. This membership is automatically managed, so you cannot add or remove members (unless you change who the host and co-host(s) are) or change the group properties.