Add notes in custom text box which can be scrolled

Hi Julian and welcome to Heroes!

You can't add the "notes" content that would appear as a part of the player to the slide itself, but there is a method here on how to set up the closed captioning or notes to appear on the slide with the scrolling panel. It sounds like this is what you have set up - partially - but you could add in the scrolling element.

Let us know if that works or if you need a bit more information.

Hi Ashley,

Thank you for your prompt reply and link to a fantastic tutorial. This shows me exactly what to do and the next tutorial shows me how to ensure that if the button has been pressed to show notes on the slide and then how to make them keep appearing automatically on following slides too unless the button is pressed again. This was going to be my next question!

One final question though, if the Storyline standard notes can be displayed on the slide, why can't we tap into that facility if we want to add our own custom notes holder, is there no code or work around that enables this? My only alternative is to copy and paste the notes into the text box on screen manually. It would be great if it would automatically add notes on screen in the normal way. That way when it goes off for translation the notes page can more easily be viewed and translated/updated.

Many thanks.

Hi Julian,

I'm glad that tutorial was what you needed.

I don't claim to know why it was designed that way, but there isn't a code to access that I'm aware of to allow it to appear on the slide itself. It does sound like something that would make a good feature request though! Those go directly to our product development team for review and we always really appreciate the feedback.