I am new to the community and hope you guys can help. I am currently building a large presentation, and I am trying to break it up by putting links into my slides that link to other interaction within presenter and hiding the slides that im linking to so it doesnt show up in the outline. My question is, when I link using David Moxon's Method (Thanks David!), it works just fine when I link to another powerpoint slide, but when I link it to another interaction and publish, the interaction shows up off center. Is there a solution to fixing this? Thanks!
Hi there Kim, and welcome! Yeah, when the hyperlink points to a slide that contains an Engage interaction, it creates an alignment issue that causes some overlap on the sidebar. You can overcome that by inserting a separate (non-Engage) slide right before the Engage slide, and hyperlinking to that instead (and then making the slide very quickly auto-advance). Here's how Dave Moxon explains it in his blog post:
If you are linking from one Engage interaction to another, you cannot link to a particular step in an interaction, only to the slide. Also there is a more serious issue of rendering when linking from an Engage slide to another Engage slide. The second Engage interaction gets displaced and will lie over the outline. The workaround to this issue is to link to a blank PowerPoint slide first which then moves on automatically to your second Engage slide. By ensuring that the blank slide plays quickly, your users won’t notice any difference. You can see an example of this technique in this demo here. (see Learning the Interface).
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Hi there Kim, and welcome!
Yeah, when the hyperlink points to a slide that contains an Engage interaction, it creates an alignment issue that causes some overlap on the sidebar. You can overcome that by inserting a separate (non-Engage) slide right before the Engage slide, and hyperlinking to that instead (and then making the slide very quickly auto-advance). Here's how Dave Moxon explains it in his blog post:
If you are linking from one Engage interaction to another, you cannot link to a particular step in an interaction, only to the slide. Also there is a more serious issue of rendering when linking from an Engage slide to another Engage slide. The second Engage interaction gets displaced and will lie over the outline. The workaround to this issue is to link to a blank PowerPoint slide first which then moves on automatically to your second Engage slide. By ensuring that the blank slide plays quickly, your users won’t notice any difference. You can see an example of this technique in this demo here. (see Learning the Interface).
Thanks so much for the reply! It worked perfectly!
Great - glad to hear it!
Hi Kim,
What hyperlink address enter to link to the blank slide in your powerpoint?
Thanks,
Melissa
Hi Melissa & welcome to Heroes,
Are you trying to link from Engage to PowerPoint? If so, see the link below:
http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/01/27/how-to-link-from-engage-to-presenter/
If not, can you clarify what you're trying to accomplish?
Hello Melissa,
The steps in this blog post should give you the information you need: http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/01/27/how-to-link-from-engage-to-presenter/
Hi,
The link to the blog post is bad. Could you please re-post? I'm trying to link from an interaction step to another PPT slide.
Thanks,
Ben
Hi Ben. Looks like Dave updated his blog post's domain. This one should work: http://mediaenglish.com/daveperso/2009/01/27/how-to-link-from-engage-to-presenter/
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