Storyline 3 Visited States Problem
May 21, 2018
I am having trouble getting my visited states to show. I've read all the discussions and have tried several times, with no luck. I have 3 buttons, I custom-created them with images for each state. The hover state works, but the visited will not. I've got the slide locked down so users cannot advance until all 3 buttons are visited, but since the visited states aren't working, the locked slide won't work either. HELP!
I've tried button sets and several things. I even tried to get creative by putting a trigger on my layers to change the state once the timeline starts on each layer. Still no luck. Any help would be appreciated! :) i attached my slide.
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There is no slide attached.
Are you trying to trigger the built in 'visited' state or are you using a custom 'visited' state
It's a custom state; I created it because my button is a jpg image. I'm having trouble uploading the story.file; hopefully I can get it to work soon so someone can pick it apart for me!
Hi Judy
I'm having trouble downloading your file. Are you able to create a new project file and import a few of the slides in that you are having trouble with.
Judy, not your fault; this is a known bug (See Ashley's first Reply) in SL involving the use of this clause in a trigger:
Using "State ..." in a When statement only works if you have only three or four triggers on a slide. It seems like a wonderful idea, but more triggers than that, and it just doesn't work. (Note: this restriction doesn't apply if State of ... is used in the Conditions part of the trigger.)
You also are having problems with these triggers:
When you create a state of Visited or Hover on an object, all the triggers are included. If you create your own triggers to do the same thing, the results are unpredictable, sometimes interesting, and almost never useful. Delete them, and let the built-in magic do its work.
I think you'll find the attached sample works, and is much simpler to create. One caveat: visited state is really reliable as long as you are on the same slide, but if you visit a bunch of other slides, it may get lost when you come back to this slide.
Walt. You are my HERO! I have spent the past two days researching and playing around with this slide. I never found the blog entry about the bug, so thank you. and Thank you soooo much for simplifying the slide, you helped me immensely. I thought I was going crazy!
Lesson learned...no more custom buttons, triggers, and states. I'll let the built-in magic do it's thing! Thank YOU! :)
Glad Walt was able to help you! And hopefully, it doesn't deter you from all the custom stuff in the future - this was just an unusual one that ran into a bug!
But, if there is built-in magic, why not? 🌟
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