When I use the previous slide button, it directs me to the slide I visited previously and not the one before where I am located. This happens with the default action that Storyline gives me.
I need it to just go back to the slide before where I am located.
The default trigger for the PREV button is to jump to the "previous" slide. As you've figured out, "previous" is defined as whatever slide the user just came from (similar to how the back button of a browser works).
If you want the PREV button to always follow the linear path of the slides, you have to hard-code the trigger on each slide. That means changing "previous slide" to a specific slide, as shown here:
Warning: If you add, delete, or re-arrange slides, you'll have to adjust the hard-coding.
From purely a programming perspective: considering that one can create adaptive paths and triggers from any slide, it makes sense that previous means going back to the previously viewed slide. It doesn't make sense that previous is a slide from which the user has not visited.
For example, if you are on Slide 10 and click something that goes to slide 20 and then click previous, the expected user behavior is to go back to the previous location slide 10 and not slide 19.
If you want the previous slide to mean the slide in sequential order, then it's probably best to create a linear series of slides and not allow the user to jump out of order thus previous would always represent the previous slide in order.
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The default trigger for the PREV button is to jump to the "previous" slide. As you've figured out, "previous" is defined as whatever slide the user just came from (similar to how the back button of a browser works).
If you want the PREV button to always follow the linear path of the slides, you have to hard-code the trigger on each slide. That means changing "previous slide" to a specific slide, as shown here:
Warning: If you add, delete, or re-arrange slides, you'll have to adjust the hard-coding.
It's a problem! This is not agile
Hi, Alejandro.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on how you'd prefer the jump to previous trigger/button to behave.
We have a feature request logged to allow users to set the logic for the Previous slide trigger.
I'm adding this discussion to the report, and I will update you if I have any news to share or if this request makes it to our feature roadmap.
From purely a programming perspective: considering that one can create adaptive paths and triggers from any slide, it makes sense that previous means going back to the previously viewed slide. It doesn't make sense that previous is a slide from which the user has not visited.
For example, if you are on Slide 10 and click something that goes to slide 20 and then click previous, the expected user behavior is to go back to the previous location slide 10 and not slide 19.
If you want the previous slide to mean the slide in sequential order, then it's probably best to create a linear series of slides and not allow the user to jump out of order thus previous would always represent the previous slide in order.