Best Practice for Next Button Trigger Conditions

Apr 05, 2013

I'm curious if someone has a more elegant way to manage mulitple conditions on the Next button.

Here's my situation:

I have a slide where I ask the user to select their location. There are 18 radio buttons to choose from. I don't want the user to be able to advance to the next slide without selecting one of these buttons. Also if they try to advance without selecting a button I want to put up a warning message telling them to do so. I know how to do this using conditions on the Next button but it seems kind of tedious adding 18 conditions to one trigger saying "Jump to next slide when user clicks next button if button 1's state is equal to visiting,... or if button 2's state is equal to visited, or if button 3's state is equal to visited, etc,. 18 times. And then creating another trigger on the Next button that says show the Warning layer with the 18 conditions on it.

Is there a more elegant way?

3 Replies
Rebecca Fleisch Cordeiro

Hi Brett,

One way might me to set up a T/F variable - maybe call it SelectOne - default is false

Then, on the slide with the radio buttons, set up a trigger that says:

Action: adjust variable

Variable: selectone

Operator: =Assignment

Value: Value True

When: State

On: Any of

And then in the list, select all the option buttons

Are: selected

This is easier because you can just click down the list bing bing bing bing (18 times)

And for the warning layer, just set a trigger to show the layer when the Learner clicks the next button

And for the Jump to next slide condition,choose "Variables"

If: selectone

Operator: ==Equal to

Type: Value

Value: True

Trigger order should be, top to bottom

Slide Trigger

Set selectone...

Player Triggers

Show layer warning when

Jump to next slide when

Brett Rockwood

Rebecca, thanks for the detailed response. I knew there was a more efficient way to accomplish this and yours certainly is. One of the great strengths of SL is its flexibility; more than one way to get something done. It's also one of its challenges to figure out the most expedient and elegant way to do so.

Thanks again for your suggestion.

Brett

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