A challenge for Storyline experts

Rebecca,

I'd do this...

1. Use radio buttons to create a button set for each choice type.  (Make sure to create/name all 3 button sets)

2. Add a layer for each possible choice combination.  (gonna be a lot given that you have 10 buttons divided into three sets)

3. Add a series of triggers that show layers based upon which boxes are selected.  So an example would be if state of button 1 in choice set 1 and button 2 in choice set 2 and button 3 in choice set 3 are selected, show the corresponding layer.

I've attached a simple example.   If you press all three buttons in a row (top, middle, bottom) you'll see the image change.  To extend it, all you'd have to do is add more layers and button combination triggers.

Hope this helps!

Mike

Rebecca,

Mike beat me to it. Here's another example.

Rebecca;

I only had a couple of minutes but started something for you.

In my vision it will take 36 layers and 36 triggers.  I started them for you.  You will see my logic if it works for you.

Tim

the others posted while I was working as well. 

Good luck Rebecca.

Tim

Awesome!!!!

You guys are the greatest!!!

I was able to take a little from each of yours and make a quick proto-type to show my boss.

This is what he was looking for.

A great big thank-you!

Rebecca,

I would be curious to see your prototype. I wasn't sure what you meant by "and view the result.". Is that an image? Text?

Good call James!

Funny, I immediately jumped to a visual outcome....

@Steve and @Tim  Wow...that's pretty awesome (and fast) work!

Rebecca. are you working on software used for interior design?

I can imagine an image of a room, and then see it change as you make your various selections.

Judith, it is not for interior design.

But you are correct in what we are trying to accomplish.

We sell light bulbs in addition to batteries and want to teach our associates how color temperature and wattage affects the objects in a room.

I will try to post a file when I have it ready.

I know I am a bit late with my solution but none the less...

I thought of a way to build it without any triggers, layers, or variables. Just edited the button states. 

Play with it here http://elearningenhanced.com/demos/3x3/story.html

I made a short screenr explaining it https://player.vimeo.com/video/204932294

And I will attach the story file.

This was fun! We should have more "Challenges" 

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention in the screenr (that is probably self-evident)... the buttons are grouped in button sets. 

James;

Wow is all I can say!  What a great use of states.  Far more elegant than 36 layers.

I love to learn from the masters.

Tim

James,

What a great solution. I never thought about doing it that way. Your method would certainly simplify things here. I was looking at taking 36 pictures, hoping they were identical except for the light bulb change between each shot.

that said, I can see value in each of the suggestions.

This community is awesome!

It helps so much to have others who look at the same problem from different angles.

Rebecca

I ran into a problem trying this method with markers which can't be grouped like radio buttons.

Adding a marker state "selected" with an image works fine.  The audio, callout, and image of the selected marker are active and reveal the image properly.  

Clicking the same marker again will change the state from selected to normal which will terminate the audio, hide the callout and the image.

The problem I ran into comes when a marker "A" is selected and a user clicks marker "B".  The audio and callout are terminated on marker "A", but the state of "A" remains "selected", because the markers cannot be grouped so that only one is in the selected state. 

My messy way out:  add triggers to every marker to reset the state of all other markers to normal.

Any ideas of an easier way to do this with markers?

Adding them to a button set works for me, Sam. Not sure that's what you're looking for.

Fun! Bummed I missed the challenge. What a great way to bring multiple perspectives and ideas to the same problem.

I swear that button set option in the drop down menu wasn't there before.