I'm teaching myself Articulate Storyline and have run into some roadblocks. I have two questions.
If I want to take the slides I already made and create them into scenes, how do I do that? I'm thinking it is causing a trigger problem, see next question.
When I preview the work I've done, the second slide always gets jumped over. I have tried changing the triggers on this slide and the one before numerous times, but it keeps happening. Any suggestions?
You can just add new scenes a select the slides you want to add into new scenes. This issue with skiping slides may have to do with the triggers associated with them. If you upload the file we may be able to help troubleshoot.
Storyline has two views: Story view, which shows your scenes; and scene view which shows your slides. If you click on the Story view tab you'll see all of the scenes you have in your project. To create a new scene in this view just right-click on the background and select New Scene. Once you have your new scene it will have a slide in it. In the scene(s) you have that contain slides you want to move to the new scene, just select them (Ctrl+click to select more than one) and drag them onto the new scene you just created.
Once you have them in the scenes you want you may have to adjust the next button trigger manually. It depends on how you have your slides set up. To check this while still in Story view you can click on a slide and look at the Triggers menu on the right. It will tell you which slide the next button will take you to. If the slides are numbered sequentially (that's the default behavior) then you'll be okay. If you need to have the slide go to another slide then you'll have to manually change it by clicking on the underlined text in the trigger and selecting the new location.
Sometimes when you add new scenes you'll have to change this because they can get out of sequence. Usually you'll only have to change the last slide in a scene so Storyline knows where you want to go at the end of a scene.
Hi Sheryl! Did you mean to attach your file here? I'm not seeing it. If you responded via e-mail, that could be the culprit. Pop in the forums and click Add Attachment in your reply.
The slide isn't skipped, it shows, and then moves to the next slide as soon as the timeline starts, which all happens so fast you don't see it.
For this slide, I recommend against advancing when timeline ends, because you may have slow or fast readers, and the timeline cannot be set accurately for either of them, except by pure luck, which is pretty rare in our business. I recommend some action the user can take to advance to the next slide, at their own pace.
I am now so confused. I took the triggers off, and now the first two slides
jump. They are grayed out in preview. I thought I'd manually add next
buttons instead, but thought I'd get some more advice first.
If they are grayed out in the menu when you preview, it is because they have been visited already. The trigger I showed was jumping to slide 1.3 as soon as slide 1.2 started.
I agree that a next button is your best solution. Changing the trigger to jump when the timeline ends is probably not the best in this case
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You can just add new scenes a select the slides you want to add into new scenes. This issue with skiping slides may have to do with the triggers associated with them. If you upload the file we may be able to help troubleshoot.
You can now see the mess at the end too. I decided not to go further until
I could figure out what's going on. Thanks!!
Hey Sheryl.
Storyline has two views: Story view, which shows your scenes; and scene view which shows your slides. If you click on the Story view tab you'll see all of the scenes you have in your project. To create a new scene in this view just right-click on the background and select New Scene. Once you have your new scene it will have a slide in it. In the scene(s) you have that contain slides you want to move to the new scene, just select them (Ctrl+click to select more than one) and drag them onto the new scene you just created.
Once you have them in the scenes you want you may have to adjust the next button trigger manually. It depends on how you have your slides set up. To check this while still in Story view you can click on a slide and look at the Triggers menu on the right. It will tell you which slide the next button will take you to. If the slides are numbered sequentially (that's the default behavior) then you'll be okay. If you need to have the slide go to another slide then you'll have to manually change it by clicking on the underlined text in the trigger and selecting the new location.
Sometimes when you add new scenes you'll have to change this because they can get out of sequence. Usually you'll only have to change the last slide in a scene so Storyline knows where you want to go at the end of a scene.
Hi Sheryl! Did you mean to attach your file here? I'm not seeing it. If you responded via e-mail, that could be the culprit. Pop in the forums and click Add Attachment in your reply.
Hope this works. I did use email before.
The slide isn't skipped, it shows, and then moves to the next slide as soon as the timeline starts, which all happens so fast you don't see it.
For this slide, I recommend against advancing when timeline ends, because you may have slow or fast readers, and the timeline cannot be set accurately for either of them, except by pure luck, which is pretty rare in our business. I recommend some action the user can take to advance to the next slide, at their own pace.
I am now so confused. I took the triggers off, and now the first two slides
jump. They are grayed out in preview. I thought I'd manually add next
buttons instead, but thought I'd get some more advice first.
If they are grayed out in the menu when you preview, it is because they have been visited already. The trigger I showed was jumping to slide 1.3 as soon as slide 1.2 started.
I agree that a next button is your best solution. Changing the trigger to jump when the timeline ends is probably not the best in this case
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