E-Learning Heroes - Advice and ideas from the Articulate Community

Sorry I posted this first in the wrong forum!  Since there doesn't seem to be a way to move it, I'm going to cross-post here.

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/23772/130393.aspx#130393

I shared an drag-and-drop example I made, and asked if there is a thread I can subscribe to with sample story files community members create.

I'm attaching the .story file and a Screenr (at Jeanette's and David's suggestion).

http://www.screenr.com/0IK7

Thanks!

Heather that looks great - nice work! I'm sure the community would love to see a screenr of your workflow that you used to create this interaction! 

And you did the right thing by posting here - the General Discussion forum is a great place to share examples, and as Christine mentioned in the other thread, we often feature the samples that folks share when we post the weekly recap on the Word of Mouth blog each Monday.

Again, thanks for sharing this! 

Great demo, Heather. You always do amazing work.

I totally agree with JB regarding the Screenr. See, no good deed

Thanks for sharing your .story file!

Thanks for sharing the actual file, Heather.

Here's a Screenr that shows how I made the interaction.  Hope it makes sense!

http://www.screenr.com/0IK7

heather this is awesome, thank you for sharing this and big THANK YOU for the screenr, i always love to see the visual of how people put something together!!!

one thing that might also be helpful for future projects: I recently found out that Storyline has 2 built-in states that are great for drag and drop interactions... DROP CORRECT and DROP INCORRECT. I just wanted to mention this because if you were to use those instead of making the 2 custom states for the correct/incorrect colors on each drag item, you wouldn't need the triggers at all. Because Storyline will apply the state for you as soon as the user drops the item. This could save a little bit of work . because it means you wouldn't have to add the 2 triggers for each of your items.

thank you again for sharing!

Hi, Saenna!

Thanks so much for pointing that out!  I actually got that to work all the way except the last step.  I have a layer that I want to appear when all the items have been dragged to a target (either right or wrong).  I'm doing that now by saying to show layer when state of objects "are not Normal".  I actually found that trigger doesn't work when using the built-in states of Drop Correct and Drop Incorrect.  Maybe that's a bug.

I couldn't think of another way to show the layer (keying off the states).  Can you think of another way to show the layer after all the objects have been dropped on any target?  If so, I would love to learn that method!  You're right, this way makes it much simpler to create and maintain.

Thanks so much!

Fantastic!  Love it!  

Awesome Screenr, Heather - thanks for recording that!! And I see your point about how the built-in states of Drop Correct & Drop Incorrect don't seem to be working as expected. I'm glad you mentioned this - I just submitted the issue to our dev team, since it doesn't seem like the correct behavior.

Thanks again for sharing a great example!

Heather

Sweet!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks Heather for the great drag and drop example!  Hopefully someday I will have something to share, too!  I also never used screenr.com before.  I'll have to look into that! 

Thanks for sharing! I will be using this soon!

Hi,

I watched this video on "Make such learners complete every section of your course" by setting triggers in storyline. I have one question. How can you make sure that the learners finish "Intro", "Background" and "Benefits" in the first section? Does that mean I should set triggers for each of the state?

Thanks,