Video content is a popular form of media when it comes to e-learning. It’s a great way to engage your learner, and a nice change from static text and images. In certain cases, you may want to...
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I found that you can add the same effect without so many triggers if you add the interactions as a slide layer instead:
You make a slide layer to your base layer, where you locate your popup box. You change the settings on the slide layer to "Pause timeline on base layer". This way you only need two triggers.
1. One cue point that triggers "Show Layer X" when Timeline reaches cue point #1 and 2. One trigger to Hide Layer when Timeline ends.
You make a slide layer to your base layer, where you locate your popup box. You change the settings on the slide layer to "Pause timeline on base layer". This way you only need two triggers.
1. One cue point that triggers "Show Layer X" when Timeline reaches cue point #1 and 2. One trigger to Hide Layer when Timeline ends.
This is amazing. One question - I have paused the video as well as the timeline. I have a trigger that shows a layer with a few pop up text boxes. When I insert a trigger to go back to the layer with the video it starts the video over from the beginning as opposed to where the video (and timeline) were paused.
Can anyone assist me please?
Thank you
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Can anyone assist me please?
Thank you
John Backewich Supervisor (Quality) SFCC Contact Center Region of Waterloo 131 Goodrich Dr. Kitchener, N2C 2E8 519-575-4400 ext. 3196 (Office) 519-501-8309 (Cell) [cid:image001.png@01D27300.74AC2A40] [Description: Description: serve] The Region of Waterloo provides more than 60 per cent of municipal services to a growing population of 550,000 people. We are committed to creating an inclusive, thriving and sustainable community through innovative leadership and a range of services such as: public health, social services, planning, heritage, water supply, regional roads, waste management, ambulance service, rural libraries, public transit, community housing, emergency planning, Provincial Offences Courts and airport services.
- Yes, you have to go to setting for the base layer (down in the rigth corner with your base layer, there is a setting icon, a small wheel or if you are in Story View, you can see the setting in the panel to the rigth, when you have the slide marked.
In settings, called Slide properties, you have to change "When revisited" to Resume saved state. That should solve your issue.
Sometimes Storyline does it automatically for you (since the setting if for automtic choosing of the program, where the definition say it will choose correct itself - but I don't find it accurate enough).- Thank you so much for the feedback. I did change the settings to "resume saved state". When I click on the pop up it does go back to the video on the other layer but plays it from the beginning, not from the paused state.
- I am not sure why it doesn't work - but I sometimes also experience local errors with code that doesn't work on some part of my program even if the code looks identical to other parts that does work... I am working on a massive e-learning with +50 videos rigth now and I am already seeing strange problems like this... However I have a feeling that it you start with a completely new slide (without copied code) and do things manually, it usually works all the sudden.
Another thing to try, is instead to have the user click an X for closing the slide layer, you can also choose to Hide layer when Timeline finish - and then make your dialog long enough for the user to read it, before it close your slidelayer down and continue from the baselayer.