Bug-Report: Wrong Boolean Values in Storyline, when using German, French or Spanish Language Option
Nov 20, 2014
I'm using Articulate Storyline 2 - latest Version October 2014.
Since German is my native language I changed the language of Articulate Storyline 2 to "German" (default = English) -> File-Language Options.
Soon I recognized that every Boolean Value of a condition or a boolean-variable is always "falsch" (german word for "false"). You can not set it to "richtig" (german word for "true"). Everytime I switch the value to "richtig" (true), the value will immediately change itself to "falsch" (false) after the focus of the valuebox is lost.
I also checked the other language options: french and spanish (I can not read chinese, so I did not check that).
My final conclusion:
If you use the german, spanisch or french language-option of articulate storyline 2, you can not use boolean values because of that error/bug.
Is there anyone, who can help with this bug?
You can easely validate this bug by using the "progress tracker template" https://community.articulate.com/download/progress-tracker-template-for-storyline-2# and change the language option (File->Storyline-Options) to german, french or spanish/espanol. Try to change the setting of the boolean values.
You have to restart Articulate Storyline 2 after changing the language.
I added an attachment showing the bug in the different languages. The shown trigger is part of the first slide of progresstracker template.
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Hi Jan, I tried this in the DE version and I am seeing the same issue. Funny thing is that the logic still works because the variable 'Lesson1Module' is also (wrongly) set to Falsch on slide 1.2. I even created a new file with the same structure and the same problem occurred.
@Michael: Yep, sometimes it seems to work though there is a misleading value shown up (if you use e.g. the english progress tracker template).
But today I had this problem with a course completely done from scratch with the german language-option and the course did not work because of that problem. The boolean variables were not getting the value "richtig" / true. I think there must be a "deeper" problem - not only a mistranslated word.
Articulate should check this out. I hope someone of Articulate is reading this topic.
Jan, you should file a bug report here: http://de.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php
Thank you for this link. I did not find that link. There was only a FAQ-Link in Storyline 2.
I have sent this report to articualte. Let's see what will happen :-)
Thanks for mentioning that you sent that in to support. I can see your case (00439402) and you should be hearing from someone soon.
Articulate is providing an update since last friday:
https://de.articulate.com/products/storyline-2-update.php
Many thanks for that.
@Jan, thanks for the update.
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