Hi Patinya! One way of handling this would be through the use of triggers and variables. You need to have a true/false variable for each object so that you can set conditional triggers to make the next button hide and appear.
Change the state of the Next button on the player to hidden when the timeline starts if any of those variables are not true. In my example, I have 4 objects the user has to hover over before showing the Next button.
When hovering over or clicking on all of the required objects, set a trigger to adjust those variables that you created. Also, set a trigger to change the Next button to normal if all of those variables are true, on each of those objects. Trigger order is important here- make sure you have the trigger to adjust the variable first. Also, uncheck the "restore on mouse leave" option.
If they can hover/click on these objects in any order, the variables will be adjusted and the triggers will fire accordingly. I'm attaching an example file-- probably better to show than to explain!
HI Crystal, thank you for a detailed instruction but it seems to me that this applies to Art. Story. I'm currently using Art. Studio. Is there a way to do it?
There isn't a way to change the state of the next button within Presenter or Studio '13 as a whole. It will be visible and accessible to the user from the start of the slide - although you can choose to lock individual slides as detailed here, you'll need to provide another avenue for the user to navigate away from the slide.
I am experiencing a similar issue in SL2 on one of my slides. I have replicated the above example you shared but I do not see the next button even all the objects have hovered over. Could you please suggest?
Hey Umesh! With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your .story file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
I see that Crystal reached out to some of our Support Engineers to help with testing and Rolando was doing some initial investigations before the weekend. I'm sure you'll hear back from him today with an update.
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Hi Patinya! One way of handling this would be through the use of triggers and variables. You need to have a true/false variable for each object so that you can set conditional triggers to make the next button hide and appear.
Change the state of the Next button on the player to hidden when the timeline starts if any of those variables are not true. In my example, I have 4 objects the user has to hover over before showing the Next button.
When hovering over or clicking on all of the required objects, set a trigger to adjust those variables that you created. Also, set a trigger to change the Next button to normal if all of those variables are true, on each of those objects. Trigger order is important here- make sure you have the trigger to adjust the variable first. Also, uncheck the "restore on mouse leave" option.
If they can hover/click on these objects in any order, the variables will be adjusted and the triggers will fire accordingly. I'm attaching an example file-- probably better to show than to explain!
HI Crystal, thank you for a detailed instruction but it seems to me that this applies to Art. Story. I'm currently using Art. Studio. Is there a way to do it?
Hi Patinya,
There isn't a way to change the state of the next button within Presenter or Studio '13 as a whole. It will be visible and accessible to the user from the start of the slide - although you can choose to lock individual slides as detailed here, you'll need to provide another avenue for the user to navigate away from the slide.
Thanks for this outline, very helpful!
Hi Crystal,
I am experiencing a similar issue in SL2 on one of my slides. I have replicated the above example you shared but I do not see the next button even all the objects have hovered over. Could you please suggest?
Hey Umesh! With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your .story file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
Thanks! I have shared the file with the link you provided.
Hi Crystal,
Just wanted to follow-up if you have any update for me regarding the hover issue with my course file.
Hi Umesh,
I see that Crystal reached out to some of our Support Engineers to help with testing and Rolando was doing some initial investigations before the weekend. I'm sure you'll hear back from him today with an update.
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