Changing states when visited
Oct 29, 2015
By
Lexy Condon
Hi ! I have 4 boxes and I want the user to progress through them in a linear order. eg. You cannot open B until you have done A, you cannot open C unless you have done A and B... and so on. I have created states on each box to change colour when hovered over.
I also want the labels on the boxes to change from "locked" to "available" to "completed" in line with the state of the box changing
I have tried to set it up 4 or 5 times now but I cannot get it to work. Is there an easier way?
28 Replies
Hi Lexy
can you upload the source SL file .story not the published output - will be easier for someone to help you
Hi Wendy, Thanks. That would help !
Hi Lexy
so when they click on a box is there going to be a layer or its branching to a scene or another slide? Depends on the setup if I would just use states and triggers or variables and triggers.
It's branching to another scene. When they have finished that scene then it will return to this page
Hi Lexy
So the first Start button has Start=Normal and Completed=Completed (which is a custom state)
The others are Start=Normal, Completed=Visited so should the completed be a custom state for all four of them or they should all be the built in Visited state
I suppose they could all be the built in Visited state. Therefore the first one would have to be Start = normal and Complete = visited
Hi Lexy
see if the attached is what you are after
Sorry Lexy our posts crossed - I made them all your custom Completed.
That's ok. Either would work. I am just trying to extract the file from your attachment
Hmmm for some reason I cannot open it or extract.
can you change the file extension to .story
not that I can see/work out
Sorry still new to this
Here is the published zip so you can see how it works - may / may not be what you want.
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Now my laptop is having a melt down !! I appreciate you trying to help !! I'll need to restart or try another machine
No problem. If you still can't access it let me know and I'll load it onto my webserver and send you a link that way - might be easier for you.
Hi Lexy,
What happens when you try to download Wendy's .story file? I've heard from some users that certain browser settings cause it to not open as expected and it ends up looking like code when you open it - so trying to do the save as is the best option to ensure you can access the file.
Hi Ashley and Wendy,
I save the file and then extract it but it is all coming through as code. We are using Internet explorer which it has always usually worked in.
@ Wendy - did you end up using variables to create the solution ?
- Thank you both
Hi Lexy
here is a link to the source file from my webserver - see if you can access this one. Otherwise I'll do screenshots for you of what I did
http://www.fuziondezign.com.au/Lexy/A_to_D-WF.story
Hello.
That doesn't work for me either and I asked one of the others to try too and they had the same problem. Please don't feel like you have to screenshot everything, I really appreciate your help so far.
Lexy is there anything in the Story folder? Can you open that and send me a screenshot
Here you go
http://www.fuziondezign.com.au/Lexy/A_to_D-WF.zip
See if you can download this zip file of the published version
I've zipped the .story file - see if you can download and extract the files and then right click the .story file and open with Storyline.
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