Next button not operating properly when using Restricted for navigation?
May 04, 2015
Hello all. Articulate Presenter 13 here.
I have a presentation set up using Restricted for the slide navigation. That works just fine. The user can view previous slides but can't advance or use the outline navigation unless they have already reviewed the material.
On one slide, I have three hyperlinks in Powerpoint that link to three other slides. Once the student has reviewed all three, the Next button appears.
The Next button branching in the three review slides is set to go to a specific slide.
Here is the issue; the Next button is NOT going to that slide. Instead, you have to click the Next button three times and THEN it goes to the correct slide.
It doesn't change slides when being clicked until you click it three times.
My guess is that it is using one click for each of the three slides it is bypassing; my question is, why? This rather contradicts the concept of branching.
Essentially, once the user reviews the material in the three slides, the next button needs to go directly to a specific slide.
Any ideas on why this may not be working?
Thank you!
5 Replies
Hi Rod,
In the slide properties, do you have this set to Locked by chance? Also, it may be that the timeline has not completed in its entirety stopping the next button from working. You could also share the Presenter package here if you would like us to take a look.
Hello Emily.... thank you for your reply!
All of the slides in the presentation are unlocked. The Articulate player has been set to Restricted. This functions perfectly; the user can go to the other slides by clicking the hyperlinks, can navigate to previous slides, but cannot advance using the sidebar menu.
I agree that it seems to be an issue with the timeline; in essence, because the NEXT button is not being used to go to the other slides, when the NEXT button appears, even though it has been told in branching to go to a different slide, you have to click it multiple times... as though it is still advancing slides in the background until it gets to the correct slide.
Unfortunately, I can't share the Presenter Package; I am developing on a closed system.
The issue is easily re-created, however.
When published, the user can navigate to slides 2, 3, and 4 by using the hyperlinks. On slide 4, the Next button is present. However, even though the Next button is set to go to slide 5 in the navigation, it still counts the frames off in the background.
Even when the Next button is set to simply go to the next slide in Branching, it still requires a number of clicks equal to the slide number before it will navigate to the next slide.
This is the issue I am having.
Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.
Hi Rod,
Thanks for the information. I did set this up, and it is working as designed. Slide 4 will not advance until the timeline ends if you have the Player set to restricted. You could go under the Articulate tab, Options, and you can set any slides without Audio/video/animation to 1 second. This should allow you to click Next right away when you get to slide 4.
Perfect, Emily... thank you very much for your help. That looks like it has solved my issue!
Glad to help Rod,
Let us know if you need anything further.
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