2nd Layer Not Firing from Trigger

Kandi,

Right now you have both triggers set to fire when the slide's timeline begins.  So in essence, you're telling Storyline to fire both layers at the same time.  If your goal is to have one layer play through, and then the next after that layer is done, then you'd want to add your fire Linda layer trigger on the Welcome layer.

I've attached your file with the change.  Sorry, I think I may have moved the timeline pieces of each layer around a bit!

Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks so much for pointing out that I needed to move the 2nd trigger to the Welcome layer. I added the trigger "Show layer Im Linda" "When the timeline ends." It worked!!

I see you accomplished the same result by showing the "Im Linda" layer when the "media completes" (in this case, narration). That opens up some new options for creating future triggers

Kandi

Kandi,  

Yep.  There's usually several ways to achieve the same result.  Looking forward to seeing what you create!

Mike

MIke,

does your comment above mean that we cannot fire two layers at the same time?

thanks

Hey Emma,

I'll jump in here and answer your question. Yes, that's correct - you cannot fire two layers at the same time.

If you think through the idea of layers, they are essentially a 'slide on top of the base slide' with pretty much the ability to do all the same things you can do on the base slide/layer. By showing two layers at the same time they conflict with each other - which one comes first?

Hope that helps.

You can fire two layers, by ensuring you switch off the hide other layers on each layer, not sure if you can do two off the timeline, but if not just set a timeline trigger on the first layer to open the second.

Not sure why, but it is possible