Whenever I import a Powerpoint presentation into SL (which is part of our workflow), I automatically get the "Jump to next slide when timeline ends" trigger on each and every page.
That trigger is created with the import of Powerpoint, and you'll want to also look at the slide's properties where you could change it to "advance by user" allowing the user to use the next button. You can easily change this by looking at all your slides in Story view and pressing CTRL+A to select all of them, and then adjust the properties within the bottom right hand corner window.
Hey Ashley, thanks for the response. I guess what I was asking is, is there anyway to do something in Powerpoint to stop that trigger being created by Storyline during the import.
I just did a quick test - as I hadn't ever tried myself, and I set my Powerpoint slide transitions to on mouse click, and then a second set of slides to advance automatically. When I imported both of them, the trigger was automatically created to jump to the next slide when the timeline ends and the slide's properties were set to "advance automatically" so it looks like this is the default from the import. It sounds like a good feature request to be able to adjust that behavior prior to importing ( match how your powerpoint slides advance).
HI Ashley. Have you tried this? If I select all slides and change the property to "Slide Advances: By User", it only changes the property for one slide. I have not found a way to change them all at once. This is going to kill us developers who have 100+ decks to convert so wondering if someone has been successful trying to do this.
Sorry I missed the part where you said "Story View". I was trying it from the Slide View and clicking the layer's gear icon...which does not work for multiple slides. Works great in Story View though, thanks!
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Hi Christopher,
That trigger is created with the import of Powerpoint, and you'll want to also look at the slide's properties where you could change it to "advance by user" allowing the user to use the next button. You can easily change this by looking at all your slides in Story view and pressing CTRL+A to select all of them, and then adjust the properties within the bottom right hand corner window.
Hey Ashley, thanks for the response. I guess what I was asking is, is there anyway to do something in Powerpoint to stop that trigger being created by Storyline during the import.
Hi Christopher,
I just did a quick test - as I hadn't ever tried myself, and I set my Powerpoint slide transitions to on mouse click, and then a second set of slides to advance automatically. When I imported both of them, the trigger was automatically created to jump to the next slide when the timeline ends and the slide's properties were set to "advance automatically" so it looks like this is the default from the import. It sounds like a good feature request to be able to adjust that behavior prior to importing ( match how your powerpoint slides advance).
HI Ashley. Have you tried this? If I select all slides and change the property to "Slide Advances: By User", it only changes the property for one slide. I have not found a way to change them all at once. This is going to kill us developers who have 100+ decks to convert so wondering if someone has been successful trying to do this.
Hi Justin,
I'm just testing that now - and it works for me as expected in Storyline 2. Can you tell me more about where you're seeing this behavior?
Hi Ashley,
Sorry I missed the part where you said "Story View". I was trying it from the Slide View and clicking the layer's gear icon...which does not work for multiple slides. Works great in Story View though, thanks!
Justin
No worries Justin - glad you were able to figure it out!
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