Change appearance of hot spot question selector marker

Hi Ren: Thank you for your comment. I think its benefit and impact would be incredibly useful as evidenced by 8 years of requests for the same thing. Maybe for the 10th year Anniversary of "Request One" it will be a possibility! Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!

I just opened up a feature request as well.

I am here (8 years later) with the same problem as everyone else. I had the same feedback as JH and is very frustrating that this is still not resolved! Tracy has a nice workaround, however, does not take the place of our need to change the spinning wheel. What can be done to change the wheel o something else? Where is this in the slide/program? Did deep for an answer Articulate! WE NEED THIS!

You know Ren, and fellow eLearning colleagues, it took NASA 11 years to build the Perseverance Mars rover, so maybe in that same amount of time, your company can find a solution for the Hot Spot issue, and renaming Rise 360 Tabs? What are the odds? Articulate would have 3 years still to match.

We're currently evaluating the Articulate suite and this will probably be the single reason to not chose Articulate. This spinner is unacceptable together with the fact that it's taking so long to resolve such a simple request. 

You can do it with javascript. Here is a code to change the circle to yellow, and a bit larger. Adjust by changing the color and the size:

var el = document.getElementsByClassName('hotspot-marker')[0];
el.style.color = "yellow";
el.style.background = "yellow";
el.style.borderLeftColor = "yellow";
el.style.borderRightColor = "yellow";
el.style.borderWidth = "12px";
el.style.marginLeft = "-12px";
el.style.marginTop = "-12px";

The script can simply run in a javascript trigger, to run when timeline starts. 

Note: this is tested in Storyline 360, and might need adjustments for other versions as the DOM-structure is slightly different in various versions of storyline. 

Year is 2021 and I'm wondering if there's any news on updating the appearance of the hotspot marker. This is a necessary feature.

I gotta try that code - Thanks Snorrre!  When I have an open week! Appreciate it!

We are now in year 2022. Do we have an update on this issue being resoved? Clearly this is a feature that is important to many of your users. Thx.

Snorre - your code worked perfectly! Thank you!

I built a hotspot quiz question and the feedback I got from my SME was that he clicked the image and then it's just spinning and spinning for over 2 minutes. He has a point. Anything that is spinning usually indicates that it's "working" and to wait. Still can't believe it's not been fixed in over 8 years.

Hi - Wow! The first request for changing the Hotspot indicator-selector was 11 years ago!

And, it is still not possible "out of the box"?  Any ideas, rumors, hints on this?

Thank you!

Hi Serkan,

I replied to you in a similar thread, here!

Got around to trying the code. Thank you! 

HI! I am here wondering if there are any other options as well - or good ideas for workarounds. The workaround posted 9 years back seems to be opening a different file now. Thanks!

Year 2024 (almost) and still curious if this will ever happen? It seems to be a popular request ;). Love articulate and know there are workaround options, which I will use, but for the ease of usability, I would think this would be something to improve if the requests are still coming in. 

Hi Mindy!

Thanks for checking in on this and sharing your feedback!

I don't have any updates to share at this time as our development team has been prioritizing other features. I've included you in the feature report so you can be notified as soon as we have updates to share.

For your reference, here's a deeper look at how we manage feature requests.