Back-button trigger

Hi Taher,

The behavior you are encountering with 'back/previous' button where you are being taken to the previously viewed slide is by design. It is expected that the order will not be sequential or linear for this button.

Here's an old thread that tackles this same question and the only workaround, for now, is to manually customize the player trigger.

You just need to select the exact slide you want to show when a user clicks the 'previous' button.

I hope this helps.

-Jop

Thank you for your response, Jopney Lein Sotomayor!

I read through the article you shared. Like most users, I agree hard coding triggers on each slide is frustrating. What I am curious to learn is whether there are any eLearning guidelines about the back button behavior (previous vs. last-viewed slide). If I remember correctly, the back button in other authoring tools navigate to the previous slide.

As the course is on the web I believe most users would expect the back button to be historic in nature.

Hi Taher,

I scanned through Articulate documentations and did not found an article discussing the specifics of the 'Back' button. What's for sure though is that this is a sound topic from the community so I suggest you to drop an enhancement request here to make this feature a more prominent request from the community to the product team.

-Jopney

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Phil! I have a sizeable audience group and I've received mixed responses about their preference (some want it historic while the others prefer the actual).

Thanks, Jopney. I scanned through the posts on the forum but wasn't able to find something concrete.

We do have a feature request we are tracking that would allow you to set the logic for the previous slide trigger.

I've added this conversation to the report as we continue to track user impact and so that we can share any updates with you here.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.

Thanks, Leslie. I am curious to learn the logic of the current navigation triggers in Storyline. They are programmed differently in other authoring tools I believe (navigates to the actual previous slide/page).

I apologize, Taher.

I see that Jopney explained how the Back/Previous button worked above and that information is correct. The previously viewed slide will be displayed. Many Storyline courses are branched and non-linear and, as Phil mentioned, it works like a web navigation Back button.