you could probably use cue points or the trigger when timeline reaches xx secs. Hard to say without seeing what other objects are on your slide. Is there narration? Video?
Perhaps if you can share the slide might be easier for us to help you.
Default triggers available include pause and resume timeline, it's just a question of how you trigger them. Probably a dozen ways you could choose to do it, all of them right depending on your course and needs.
With that being said, it may be just as easy to place your YES and NO radio buttons on a slide layer, and trigger that layer to show when you're ready for them to see the buttons. Set your slide layer properties to pause the base timeline, and hide the layer when you're ready to move on to new content.
You're a gem! I've attached a very rough slide example.
The top text is what I want to appear after the learner selects any answer. I want the bottom text to hide after the learner selects their answer. The next button should be hidden until the interaction is complete.
see attached update to your file. It's very much smoke and mirrors. I find SL doesn't always play nicely with grouped items or grouped items with animations by paragraphs so I don't tend to use them.
In your file i removed the text boxes against the Yes/No radio buttons and added the Yes/no text directly to the rectangle shapes you had there. I also added the question text directly to the rectangle shape.
I've used shape overlays to hide/reveal the intro and outro text and added triggers to disable and enable the next button.
Hope this helps - otherwise as Brian said above you might be better using layers.
I am coming in to this maybe a little too late for you. There are so many ways in SL to do things, and we all have our own ideas and preferences.
I like to keep things as simple as possible and for your story conditional triggers help to disable the next button and 'pause' / 'resume' timeline triggers.
I have added a version to show how to combine the objects on the timeline, with a couple of triggers. You can play around with the timings to change when things appear / disappear. Remember to adjust the 'pause timeline' time to pause after the yes / no buttons have appeared.
This thread is a bit dated, but I appreciate you chiming in to share your best advice. It could certainly help others that run across this thread in the future.
I see that you shared a file to help out as well and I just wanted to mention that many users find the .story file version more beneficial because they can dig in to see what you built vs looking at the finished result. If you're able to share that, it would be a great help :)
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Hi Katie
you could probably use cue points or the trigger when timeline reaches xx secs. Hard to say without seeing what other objects are on your slide. Is there narration? Video?
Perhaps if you can share the slide might be easier for us to help you.
Agreed -
Default triggers available include pause and resume timeline, it's just a question of how you trigger them. Probably a dozen ways you could choose to do it, all of them right depending on your course and needs.
Here's a reference that goes more in-depth on triggers: https://community.articulate.com/series/74/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-work-with-triggers
With that being said, it may be just as easy to place your YES and NO radio buttons on a slide layer, and trigger that layer to show when you're ready for them to see the buttons. Set your slide layer properties to pause the base timeline, and hide the layer when you're ready to move on to new content.
Hi Wendy,
You're a gem! I've attached a very rough slide example.
The top text is what I want to appear after the learner selects any answer. I want the bottom text to hide after the learner selects their answer. The next button should be hidden until the interaction is complete.
Hi Katie
see attached update to your file. It's very much smoke and mirrors. I find SL doesn't always play nicely with grouped items or grouped items with animations by paragraphs so I don't tend to use them.
In your file i removed the text boxes against the Yes/No radio buttons and added the Yes/no text directly to the rectangle shapes you had there. I also added the question text directly to the rectangle shape.
I've used shape overlays to hide/reveal the intro and outro text and added triggers to disable and enable the next button.
Hope this helps - otherwise as Brian said above you might be better using layers.
Hi Katie
I am coming in to this maybe a little too late for you. There are so many ways in SL to do things, and we all have our own ideas and preferences.
I like to keep things as simple as possible and for your story conditional triggers help to disable the next button and 'pause' / 'resume' timeline triggers.
I have added a version to show how to combine the objects on the timeline, with a couple of triggers. You can play around with the timings to change when things appear / disappear. Remember to adjust the 'pause timeline' time to pause after the yes / no buttons have appeared.
Hope this is of use.
Hello Paul,
This thread is a bit dated, but I appreciate you chiming in to share your best advice. It could certainly help others that run across this thread in the future.
I see that you shared a file to help out as well and I just wanted to mention that many users find the .story file version more beneficial because they can dig in to see what you built vs looking at the finished result. If you're able to share that, it would be a great help :)
Thanks again for helping out!
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