Objects disappearing at end of timeline, even though go til end
Sep 12, 2013
Hi,
I keep getting this problem (I'm making my first storyline project). Everything will be working fine, and then I make edits to a part of slide and when I go to preview, the text, images, etc disappear from the slide right at the end. (I currently have a button set up to change from state of hidden to normal when timeline ends becuase I have audio). So, the Continue button shows, but things that used to also stay, now disappear.
When I go to the timeline, it looks like everything is all lined up at the end, so I dont know why the disappear -- I've had to just re-do entire slides - but maybe there is something going on that I'm not aware of. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Stephanie
34 Replies
Hi Stephanie,
Look at the end of the bars on the timeline. Do they have a little right arrow on the far right of the bar? If not, they're not set to display until the timeline ends and, as you are apparently experiencing, will disappear at the very last moment of the slide. To fix this, right click on the bar and select "Show until end". That should take care of it.
Hi Steve,
Even when I right click and do "show until end" it is still disappearing. Also, the other bars do not have the little arrow, and they stay on the slide.
OK, another thing to check...make sure you do not have an Exit Animation applied to those that are disappearing.
Could it be because my project was originally imported from Power Point? It keeps happening as I make edits and add things from Storyline that weren't there when I imported. It's usually fixed if I delete the imported text box, say, and make a new in Storyline...
Hmmm, I don't think that is the cause of the problem. I import PowerPoint slides all the time and don't experience objects disappearing at the end of a slide erroneously. If your able to share a 1 or 2 slide .story file exhibiting the problem, I'd be happy to take a look.
Hi Stephanie! Looks like Steve is assisting you here.
Thanks Steve for jumping in to assist Stephanie
I am having the same problem. The text box is disappearing at the end of the timeline. I have set all objects to show always and removed all animations
Hi Matthew,
This thread is much older, so I think we'd want to take a look at your .story file to see how it's behaving.
Thank you for answering. Fortunately for me I figured it out. The truth is that when I thought I was modifying the exit animation to turn them off, I had in fact turned off the starting animations. Once I figured that out, I was able to correct it.
The take home message is to be very methodical when you are testing solutions.
Hi Matthew,
Thank you for the update and I'm glad you were able to figure it out. Just an FYI replying via email here includes your signature, so you're welcome to edit that and remove the information if you'd prefer.
Thank you, I will remove that.
Hi Ashley,
Was there any progress on this issue? I have a slide with a set of 5 buttons which lead into various modules of an eLearning. Upon completion of any module I've set up my project to take me back to the navigation slide. However returning to this slide always makes the button for the module which i've come from disappear. I have "Always show" selected for all 5 buttons, but this remains a consistent problem.
Hi Jack! Would you be able to share your .story file so that we could understand what you are reporting here?
Right click on the bars in the timeline and select "show always"
Hi Daniel! I haven't heard back from Jack, but he did mention above that he had it set to Always Show. Thanks for popping in to assist.
This thread is helpful..never knew about those sneaky little arrows and the end of the bars!
Glad this thread helped you out Jessica! Thanks for sharing here.
+1 helpful vote here. I somehow had exit animations on some objects and couldn't figure out why they were disappearing... until this thread!
I have an issue where the text in the HTML5 version, in my first slide, disappears at the end, even though it's set to "show until end". If I remove the slide trigger that resets the results slide, it doesn't disappear. Attaching .story file here.
Any help is appreciated!
Hi Jacqui,
Thanks for sharing a copy of your file here. I'm unclear on your use of the "reset results" trigger on your first slide though - I see you've also include it on the failure layer of the results slide and that is where I would expect it to go based on allowing the user the ability to reattempt the course. Since that trigger on the first slide is what is seeming to cause the issue and isn't needed based on the ability to include the "reset results" trigger on the results slide I would look at removing it and then continue on with the course as needed.
The "reset results trigger" isn't working as expected in HTML5. I have engaged in a thread about that here. I was attempting to experiment with a workaround by placing the trigger on the first slide instead of the failure slide, to see if it would work there instead.
I found that by putting the trigger at the beginning of the slide, and starting the text animation onto screen a few seconds after the start of the slide, that the text no longer disappears.
I still experience the issue of the course not delivering new random questions when it is restarted by the user (per the other thread).
It seems that there are a few glitches around the "reset results" trigger in HTML5.
I had a look at your file and can't quite figure out what you're trying to do but a good way to stop stuff with exit animations disappearing preemptively is to use a trigger to pause the timeline after everything has finished coming in.
Thanks Jacqui for linking to the other thread where you were discussing this with Leslie. I see that she shared information in regards to the existing bug submitted to our QA team and as she mentioned we don't currently have a timeframe to offer in regards to that behavior and set up.
That was helpful Steve. Removing Exit Animation effect worked like magic.
Glad that this thread was able to assist you as well Mohamed :) Thanks for popping in to share.