Prevent advancing

May 15, 2013

Okay, I've been playing in Storyline too much, and now am trying to help a co-worker with an issue in Presenter.

I'll use this template as an example:

http://community.articulate.com/downloads/p/46087.aspx

Is there a way to prevent users from advancing past this section until they have viewed / clicked on all 5 buttons? I know how to do this w/ Storyline, but can't seem to figure out a way in Presenter.

2 Replies
Dwayne Schamp

Really the only way in Articulate is to make them click each button in order and have each button go to a new slide. That new slide would have the selected buttons information and instruct them to click the next button in the sequence, so on and so on. Then the last buttons information slide would take them to the next slide in the main flow.

You could try a very elaborate branching model, but I think your brain would seize up with all the options and slides you would have to create.

Button slide:

b1 -> b1 information : click b2 -> b2 information : click b3->b3information : click b4 -> b4 information : click b5 -> b5 information : click next back to main flow

If you wanted you could make a final screen that showed all five buttons selected after clicking next on the B5 information screen. This could say "to review, click a button." that would take them to just the information for that button on a new slide. The slide props branching for that info slide would bring them back to the completed button slide where they could choose another button or click next to continue in the course.

the other way would be to lock that slide and create a flash that contained the entire button interaction and a next that took them to the next page when it was complete.

Those are two ways i would do it.

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