I'm very new to all this and completely untrained in the use of Elearning design packages, "I'm okay at Powerpoint, I'll give it a go". I am currently trying to do what to most of you will probably a mundane easy thing, but I cannot for the life of me find a way to do it. I have 3 'scenes' that are accessed from a central menu scene and run linear until exiting back into the menu. I would like to change the state of the menu item to show that the corresponding scene has been 'completed'. Could someone please show me the way to do this probably simple task, as it's turning me grey :).
I now have a much beter understanding of all the logic involved. I have now implemented uses of Pierre's suggestion for elements within a slide, but for some of the more serious 'compliance' courses I have used Erin's method but make the T/F Variable trigger the 'timeline start' of the summary page.
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Hello,
Just set a "Visited" state for your buttons and they will be marked as visited when you come back from the other scenes.
Pierre
Check out the restricted navigation in the sample attached to this discussion: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/free-sample-restricted-and-free-random-navigation-using-variables-and-triggers
Using variables can frequently be a lot more reliable than depending on states.
I don't trust 'visited' states - doesn't prove they've done anything but clicked on the button :-)
I make a custom viewed state for each button. Then make T/F variables called, for example, Section1Complete, Section2Complete etc.
On the last slide of a section, I add a trigger to the next button;
Use the ordering arrows to move it above the 'jump to x slide' trigger, or you'll jump slides before the variable has time to change.
Then on the menu, have a trigger that says;
When the menu loads, it checks through those completed variables and changes the button states as required.
Thank you all
I now have a much beter understanding of all the logic involved. I have now implemented uses of Pierre's suggestion for elements within a slide, but for some of the more serious 'compliance' courses I have used Erin's method but make the T/F Variable trigger the 'timeline start' of the summary page.
Cheers