I've read a batch of discussions about the NEXT button. I still need help. The client wants the NEXT button disabled to ensure people view the entire slide, but on a revisit, he wants the NEXT button enabled based on the assumption that they saw the entire slide the first time and may have come back for just one bit of information. Is that possible?
Wendy and Shel - Thanks for helping me solve a similar problem. I needed to have the learner view all the layers on the same slide before enabling the NEXT button. Then, I needed them to be able to freely go PREV and NEXT through all the slides without having to revisit all the layers one more time. I added these two variables:
Hi Ashley and Greg, I tried the above solution exactly but couldn't get the Next button to be Normal on revisit. What am I missing? Any other settings I need to know? Thanks!
Check the order of the triggers. That happened to me once and it turned out that I didn't have the "Add 1 to slide visit" first in the trigger panel. Try that and let us know what happens.
If you're still having difficulty with it, it's often something as simple as trigger order as Greg mentioned and we'd be happy to take a look. Sometimes you just need another pair of eyes on it. You can upload it here using the "add attachment" button so that we can take a glance!
Just realized what I did wrong with your solution (and subsequently the solution I found.) My training module has multiple instances where I need to program the "Next" button the same way. I was initially using the same variable, but only the first instance showed up correctly. However the solution worked when I defined a separate variable for each instance. It seems a very clunky workaround for a seemingly simple task. Hopefully the next version of the software will have a feature built in for this.
13 Replies
Hi SHel
very simplistic sample with 2 slides - hope that helps
Wendy, you're fantastic. I know it says HERO on your avatar, but you're seriously my new hero! I owe you.
Glad to help Shel ;-)
Wendy and Shel - Thanks for helping me solve a similar problem. I needed to have the learner view all the layers on the same slide before enabling the NEXT button. Then, I needed them to be able to freely go PREV and NEXT through all the slides without having to revisit all the layers one more time. I added these two variables:
Thanks Greg for sharing that here and I'm glad you were able to get it figured out!
Thanks, Ashley. It was my first venture into number variables.
Hi Ashley and Greg, I tried the above solution exactly but couldn't get the Next button to be Normal on revisit. What am I missing? Any other settings I need to know? Thanks!
Check the order of the triggers. That happened to me once and it turned out that I didn't have the "Add 1 to slide visit" first in the trigger panel. Try that and let us know what happens.
Hi Caveni,
If you're still having difficulty with it, it's often something as simple as trigger order as Greg mentioned and we'd be happy to take a look. Sometimes you just need another pair of eyes on it. You can upload it here using the "add attachment" button so that we can take a glance!
Thank you Greg and Ashley for your quick responses! Yes the order of triggers was correct. However I found another solution that seems to do the trick. https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/enabling-disabled-the-next-button-on-revisit-in-sl-2
Awesome Caveni - thanks for linking to that idea as well!
Just realized what I did wrong with your solution (and subsequently the solution I found.) My training module has multiple instances where I need to program the "Next" button the same way. I was initially using the same variable, but only the first instance showed up correctly. However the solution worked when I defined a separate variable for each instance. It seems a very clunky workaround for a seemingly simple task. Hopefully the next version of the software will have a feature built in for this.
Yes, I did the same thing using the same variable. What I forgot was triggers are for one slide only whereas variables go across all slides.
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.