I was wondering if there was any way to start a Marker in its "open" state i.e. instead of the user having to roll over/click on the marker to view the pop-up information, this info is displayed as soon as the timeline starts?
I believe you could do this in Engage interactions, but I cant seem to find a way to do it in Storyline.
There doesn't appear to be a way to do what you want using markers. I looked at Engage as well to see if it was possible there, and the answer appears to be a no there too.
You can arrange text boxes, images, etc. around whatever object is on your base slide. Then once that is done, you just need to adjust the timing of said text boxes, images, etc. so that they appear when you want them too and disappear as well. You can do the timing adjustments in the timeline itself down at the bottom.
It's a simplistic idea, but it should get you the effect of markers without requiring the user to click on or hover over the marker itself.
To add a little complexity, you could do the same thing with layers and triggers as well.
I'll add a Screenr video here in another post showing how to do all of this soon.
On a side note re: markers automatically opening in engage interactions, I did a bit of digging and this appears to only be the case for "introduction" markers in Labelled Graphic interactions, and there doesn't appear to be a way to set it manually.
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Hi Andy,
There doesn't appear to be a way to do what you want using markers. I looked at Engage as well to see if it was possible there, and the answer appears to be a no there too.
You can arrange text boxes, images, etc. around whatever object is on your base slide. Then once that is done, you just need to adjust the timing of said text boxes, images, etc. so that they appear when you want them too and disappear as well. You can do the timing adjustments in the timeline itself down at the bottom.
It's a simplistic idea, but it should get you the effect of markers without requiring the user to click on or hover over the marker itself.
To add a little complexity, you could do the same thing with layers and triggers as well.
I'll add a Screenr video here in another post showing how to do all of this soon.
Hope that makes sense,
Adrian
Hi Andy,
Here is my Screenr video I promised.
Let me know if this helps,
Adrian
Hi Adrian, thank you for the suggestion, I will give it a try when I get time, hopefully later on today.
Cheers,
Andy
On a side note re: markers automatically opening in engage interactions, I did a bit of digging and this appears to only be the case for "introduction" markers in Labelled Graphic interactions, and there doesn't appear to be a way to set it manually.
Cheers,
Andy
Hi Andy,
No problem. I hope it works for you.
Adrian
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