Changing states of Buttons on Main Menu
Jun 19, 2012
Hi
I have been putting together a demonstration in Storyline. Steep learning curve but overall very impressive!
My demonstration invovles a main menu with four buttons from which users can branch off to four different knowledge areas.
My question is this.
At the end of each knowledge area, I have setup a quiz and upon successful completion of the quiz I direct the learner back to the main menu. I want the button on the main menu to become disabled upon returning to the main menu. (i.e. of which the underlying content and successful quiz has been completed) .
I have been fiddling about with states but cannot quite seem to get it to happen? Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jodie
9 Replies
States don't transfer between slides. You'll want to transport that status with a variable. So when you reach a completion event for your segment (like when you finish a quiz or hit a specific slide) you'll change the variable contents.
s1Complete (True/False - default False) - adjust variable to true when the page / event is hit
Now on your main menu, setup a trigger to change the state of your object or button to disabled on timeline start but only if the condition is met: s1Complete == True.
Here's a file I built way back in the Beta. It contains a feature you can't accomplish anymore (writing to a results score variable - unsure why this trigger target was removed, have been begging for it's re-addition
). Other than that it demonstrates what you're looking for with the section / menu completion.
Steve
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you sending on the file it was a big help!
After a bit of trial and error I got it do exactly what I wanted it to do!
Many thanks
Jodie
Hi Steve,
I actually would like to add some custom buttons, similar to what you did with the complete option and a tick rather than just disabling the button.
How did you import these may I ask?
Thanks again!
Jodie
OK, here is my dilemma. First I created 6 buttons on the slide master to control navigation in my course. One of my objectives was to have a Selected state when the learner was on a slide contained in "Button 1" for example. I quickly realized I could not do this from the slide master. So, I placed the buttons on each individual slide (I'm sure I'm not being very efficient here). That worked, so that I could set the Selected state for each slide depending on where that slide was within the menu structure.
Now here is my problem. If i click back to a previously visited slide, I get 2 buttons showing the Selected state, If I visit a slide a 3rd time I get 3 buttons showing the Selected state, etc. So, does this indicate that I need to change the Slide Property, When revisiting to something other than Automatically Decide. Or is there something else I am missing that is causing this unusual behavior?
Hi Curtis,
Are you able to share your .story file with us so we can take a closer look at what's going on?
This doesn't work on Storyline 360
Hi Ryan, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊
I'd like to understand what you are creating and what is not working.
Please share your project file publicly here or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
Hey Leslie,
Thanks for the quick response back! I actually already did, here is the case number: Your Articulate Case # 02971433
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan Pratta
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Rothman Orthopaedic Institute
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Perfect, Ryan. I appreciate you letting me know. It looks like one of the support engineers, Cleo, is already taking a look.
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