Can you change the state of data entries?

I just found a solution when I just have one data entry, which is to create the following trigger:

Show layer "answers" when textentry1 changes

Now I'm trying to see how I could create a trigger like this:

Show layer "answers" when textentry1, textentry2, textentry3, textentry4, textentry5 change

How could I do it?

Hi Manuel,

This would work:

Show Layer (layer name) when the user presses the Enter key if:

TextEntry1 is not equal to, ignore case (blank)

And Textentry2 is not equal to, ignore case (blank)

Etc.

Rebecca,

I tried what you suggested but I must be doing something wrong. Would you mind taking a look at the attached file? Thanks.

Hi Manuel,

I don't know if this trigger can work just with a timeline end. My suggestion was to have the user press enter after they've completed all the choices. Of course, you'd need to have that in the instructions. See attached.

I wonder if you could put a shape offstage. It could change to selected when all the text entries are completed, and the a trigger could be set to move to the next layer when that shape is equal to selected.

I'm curious to know why it doesn't work with a timeline end. But I'll follow your example. I'll simply add something like "Press enter when finished". Thanks.

This will work, data entry field although data entry fields have no state you can sort of validate they have content

Thanks Phil, that helped too.

Hi Phil,

I think one problem with that is that if there's a 2nd slide and the Learner clicks next they'll arrive at slide 2 - even without completing any of the data, yes?

Also, it still isn't automatically going to the next slide when the timeline ends, which is what I meant when I didn't know if this could work with a timeline end.

I had come up with another solution earlier which I thought I"d posted, but once again I apparently didn't hit the post button, so here it is now. The Learner does need to click outside the text entry box in order for this to work, but can complete the answers in any order.

Thanks again. Articulate is really addictive!

Hi Rebecca, I was only answering the question which was to show a layer when the data entry fields have been completed, you could always add a trigger on the layer to jump to the slide (I never saw any mention of automatically jumping to a slide).

You could add another layer that is fired when the user hits next if any of them are blank, and only allow moving if they are no equal to blank