Animate and Disable after interaction

Aug 07, 2015

Brad Magnus
By Brad Magnus

I have a mildly complex slide that has a bunch of click to show/hide elements. See:

Screengrab

On start I need the "Well Control" text to slide in which I have. Then encourage the users to click one of the icons (hot spots for now), which needs to motion path out the "Well Control" text and animate the "Presentation" in (currently set as a change state trigger). I've got all that set up, but my issue is that once the user clicks any thing else, the motion path out animations repeat, because I have the trigger set as "when the user clicks outside". So now what? 

To add to the complexity I have a VAR that's looking for if the user's clicked all 4 hot spots to show another layer. I don't think this is the best way to set it up any suggestions? Slide attached. 

2 Replies
Walt Hamilton
over 8 years ago08/07/15 at 10:33 pm (UTC)

I think you've got a great start. I love the look and feel of it.

I don't think the "if click outside" is going to work here, because by definition clicking on one oval is clicking outside of all the others.

If I understand what you want to do, clicking on any oval will bring in a different text explanation. It should also send off any other explanation that is on. To do that, you will have to track each explanation either by state, or (as I would) by variable.

Oval 1, Trigger 1 send explanation 2 off (on path 2) if it is on.

Trigger 2 send explanation 3 off if it is on.

Trigger 3 send explanation 4 off if it is on.

Trigger 4 bring explanation 1 on.

remember these will execute in top to bottom order.

Do the same for each oval. Some of these triggers can be copied and pasted.

It may seem complex to you, but if its is transparent to the user, it is the best way. And yes, tracking the clicking with a variable is the best way to go.

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