Hello. The older version of articulate displayed the slide number (ex: slide 25 of 53). How do I allow the slide numbering to appear in this articulate '13? Please help.
What about posting page numbers into the powerpoint? Would Articulate pick up the page numbers on the slides and convert them to be displayed in the player?
If you are using Storyline you can do the following:
Create a number variable (SlideNumberCurrent) with the default value to 0.
Create another number variable (SlideNumberTotal) and set the value to equal the total number of slides in your story... so if you have 5 slides in your story, set the value to 5.
On each slide, create a trigger to add 1 to the SlideNumberCurrent variable when the timeline starts.
Display both variables on your slide using a text box and entering "Slide Number %SlideNumberCurrent% of %SlideNumberTotal%" in the text box.
CAUTION! If you will be allowing your users to revisit each slide more than once, then you will need to create a true/false condition for each slide that allows the "add" trigger to update the total if the slide hasn't already been visited.
I am including a .story file which contains the number variables and the slide visited variables, so that you can see this in action.
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Hi Anthony!
That feature was not included with this version. We recommend showing your menu so that your user has a sense of their place in the course if need be.
If this is a feature that you would like to see, please feel free to submit a feature request here.
OK. thank you!
No problem Anthony!
Hey Leslie,
What about posting page numbers into the powerpoint? Would Articulate pick up the page numbers on the slides and convert them to be displayed in the player?
Hi Anthony!
The page number should be on your slides as you would expect, but this does not carry into the player menu if that is what you are asking.
You could manually re-name your slides and include numbers if that would help you accomplish your goals.
OK. Thanks again!
If you are using Storyline you can do the following:
Create a number variable (SlideNumberCurrent) with the default value to 0.
Create another number variable (SlideNumberTotal) and set the value to equal the total number of slides in your story... so if you have 5 slides in your story, set the value to 5.
On each slide, create a trigger to add 1 to the SlideNumberCurrent variable when the timeline starts.
Display both variables on your slide using a text box and entering "Slide Number %SlideNumberCurrent% of %SlideNumberTotal%" in the text box.
CAUTION! If you will be allowing your users to revisit each slide more than once, then you will need to create a true/false condition for each slide that allows the "add" trigger to update the total if the slide hasn't already been visited.
I am including a .story file which contains the number variables and the slide visited variables, so that you can see this in action.
Hope this helps.
Bobbi
Thanks for that information Bobbi,
I'll check it out and go back to the team to see if it's a good fit for our project.
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