Need Help Building Tabs

Hi Al!

Have you looked at this template: http://community.articulate.com/downloads/p/799.aspx 

It seems close enough to what you're doing to help. If it doesn't, let us know and we'll work it out with you.

David

Thanks for your reply, David. I did download Tom's template. I was trying to build something that worked more like the tabs across the top of the screen in Firefox etc. I'm building a series of courses for a client on Anatomy & Physiology. Right now I'm working on a module on the A&P of the Urinary System. I want to develop a screen on the nephron and have the learner click on the tabs--which would be on the bottom of the page, for example-- to "learn more" about its components (renal corpuscle and renal tubule). Seems to me it would be more engaging and interactive in a course that would otherwise include a lot of bullet points. I've inserted a pic below. Does this make sense to you? Any ideas on how I can build it and make work?

Do you have access to flash?  I have an fla that will do a tabbed folder.

If not use the instructions in Toms tutorial for navigation in articulate

Phil

Hi Al,

I thin you can do that with the templates. Take a look at the sample I just put together. Using the original tabs template, I resized and rotated it... now the tabs are on the top and the overall tabbed window is a smaller object on the slide.

Is this what you're going for?

You could use something like this (formatted to your visual design purposes).  I got this idea from one of Tom's blog posts.  Each tab is hyperlinked within PPT to a hidden slide that contains the information for that tab.  Because the screens are duplicate with the exception of the tab and the information within it, to the user it appears that they are staying on the same screen.      

This blog of Tomy's might help, but I could've sworn there was one where he showed how to actually create the file folder graphic and add in the links.  Maybe I just dreamed it. 

Kim maybe this blog post is the one you're thinking of? In that one, Tom gives a tutorial on how to build out the tabbed notebook.

That might be it, Janette.  Thanks!