Having a single drag item be auto-selected on slide load?

Hi Jay,

There isn't a way to set this up based on the normal drag and drop - but if you don't want the user to actually move the items, what about setting it up to look as if that is happening by using a motion path to move an item? 

Thanks for your suggestion, Ashley!  Well, the effect does involve the user to move the item to a specific spot. So not sure motion paths would work for that.

Just wondered if the draggable/movable item was able to initially be selected by default (like it would automatically be attached to the mouse cursor)  so the user doesn't have to click on it.

This is because a  previous slide exists showing a closeup of the scanner item and showing some buttons pressed on it to simulate it being adjusted for a certain task (this is done when a user has the real scanner in their hands).  So for the next screen  (the current drag/drop screen in this example), having it feel as if it was initially in their hands would feel more realistic.

Basically the simulation would be more realistic if it felt like the item was already in the user's hand - instead of having to click on it to "select" it, and continue holding the mouse button down to keep it selected in order to move it.

I realize it might not be possible in the normal drag and drop functionality.  Just putting it out there in case others might have had any ideas to make it feel like more of a realistic simulation, or knew a workaround "hack" that might get the drag item to be auto-selected on slide load.

Hi Jay,

No way that I know of in Storyline - so if you're looking for a "hack" I'll defer to our amazing community. :-)