Show certain layer when launching lightbox
Sep 09, 2013
By
Terry Bell
I would really like to be able to allow learners to click on a word/term in text, and automatically open the glossary with that term displaying. I cannot figure out how to do this with the built in glossary (plus I don't like the look and feel of it), so I created my own glossary lightbox slide.
The lightbox slide has a dozen layers (one for each term), and I would love to open the glossary with the proper layer showing. Is this possible?? (kind of a trigger that combines the Lightbox Slide & Show Layer in one.)
Any help would be much appreciated!
Terry
10 Replies
It could work if you:
a) List: Window / If: This slide is lightboxed, and
b) Variables: yourVariable == Equal to Value x
That way, you could lightbox the glossary for a specific term, but also link to it regular-sized for casual glossary browsing.
Hope that helps!
Carlos
Thank you Carlos!
That works great, it is exactly what I was looking for. It's nice to have complete control over how my new glossary looks!
Have a great day,
T
Hi Terry! Glad Carlos was able to help you out here.
Hi All,
I am researching something very similar and came across this post. I use a slide for a list of questions that will be answered as the learner progresses through the modules. I always bring this slide up in a lightbox. Right now the lightbox is activated twice. the first is the base layer and the second time is at the end of the module to show each question answered with a check mark. this is the second layer. I set a number variable on that layer and numbered it 1. I added the trigger on the lightbox slide as suggested In the post. From the slide where the lightbox will be called the second time, I added the trigger with the condition that the variable is equal to 1. That seems to work fine, however, now when I call the lightbox slide at the beginning of the module, it shows the second layer...what am I doing wrong?
Kay
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Thanks so much. I already posted this as a new discussion for the reasons
you indicated. I hope to get a response, but if not will try to contact
directly and upload an example.
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Thanks so much for the update, Kay. :)
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Thanks.that is a smart tip.
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Kay Fraone
President/CEO
Enable Consulting, Inc.
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See our new online courses
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ing/
That's fantastic! I used it to link terms in my training to Jeff's Multimedia glossary and it worked so well. https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-2-multimedia-glossary. With this glossary all of the definitions are on slide layers, so that there are only 26 slides (one for each letter of the alphabet).
Thank you so much!
For those interested in a step-by-step recap of what I did...
After adding my terms to the glossary I:
It worked beautifully. The only thing to keep in mind is that lightboxing the layers will make them smaller so it's important to make sure the definitions still look readable when lightboxed.
Many thanks for your thorough explanation, Daniela! I'm sure many will find this helpful, and I wanted to note that you would be also welcome to share a file with your example if you'd like to give others a visual of what you've described. :)
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