Storyline slides do not run in right order
Oct 13, 2012
By
Debbie Kay
Hi
I am trialling SL at present and have encountered an issue today where the slides show in the correct order in menu and all views, but when previewed or published some play a different slide to the one shown in the menu?
e.g title is 'play this' and instead it plays a different slide.
I cannot find any reference on the forum to this, anyone got any ideas?
I do not know where to start as the slides appear in the right order and correctly labelled in 'view' but 'get creative' when previewed/published.
The only triggers for all slides are advance automatically to next slide at end of slide and if user clicks next.
Many thanks for any help!
11 Replies
Hi Debbie,
Not seeing the .story file I'm going to take a stab at a couple guesses. Let's start with the basics to resetting the menu.
Go to Player > Menu.
In the lower right had corner of that view, there are two icons - a gear (additional options), and a Page icon with a small blue arrow (Reset from Story). Click the Page icon.
This will reset all the slides in your Storyview in their numbering order.
If that works, Yay! If not, check this...
If you have more than one Scene, check to see which one is set to Starting Scene indicated by a small green flag. If any Scene other than Scene 1 has a green flag then you'll want to switch it back - In Story View right-click on Scene 1 > Click "Starting Scene."
Try that.
If you still have a wonky behavior would you be able to share the .story file so I (and others) can take a closer look?
Kevin
Hi Kevin
Thanks so much for your reply![](https://articulate-heroes.s3.amazonaws.com/smileys1eyyc.png)
When I went to try this today, I find my trial has expired, so cannot give it a go :-(
I am not sure enough it works as wanted for us to invest in purchase at present, but wanted to thank you for taking the time to offer something to try :-)
Bummer.
Hope you were able to play with it enough during the trial that it will warrant a purchase. You won't regret it!
Good luck!
Kevin,
Thanks a million. I had a similar issue to Debbie's. After messing with 432 other settings I saw you post and fixed it in 30 seconds. Thank you!
You're welcome Lisa! Glad to help!
Thanks for this!
One issue I have though is if I have created section headings I loose these when resetting from Story. Should I have section headings as different scenes?
Hi Kevin,
Resetting the menu from story does the following:
So if you'll be changing them in the actual scene title that should allow it to work as expected.
Thanks for the reply. Good to know.
No problem Kevin and please feel free to let us know if you need anything else.
Thank you for this thread. I have a very simple project - one scene - and just getting to Player and then Menu showed me that the presentation order was not the order in story view. A few arrow clicks later I am all set, no need to press page button and reset all of the slides. GREAT to know all of this, though!
I'm glad that this older conversation is helpful to you, Christopher. Good to hear that you were able to get your project in the right order. I appreciate you popping in to share, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊