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Click to Reveal Interaction
I am new to using storyline and am trying to make a "click to reveal" activity. Is there any easy way of doing it besides making 40 different triggers?? I've attached a picture to what I'm trying to achieve along with a demo. Or if you know of any good tutorials that would show me how to do it, I would really appreciate it!
The triggers get really confusing once I have so many inside the interaction.(This is the website that it's on. Go to the Click to Reveal section on the menu to see a live demo)
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- MaiaWintrobCommunity Member
- MichaelHinzeCommunity Member
I'm not sure what you think you would need 40+ triggers to achieve an interaction like this. To me it looks like a button set and one trigger per button that displays a layer. You can always upload your .story file here so that someone can have a closer look.
- MaiaWintrobCommunity Member
I've uploaded the file and it is the last slide. There are two version because I didn't want to mess up the first one in case I added too many triggers and get confused! Take a look and let me know if I made this more complicated than it should be. Thank you!!
- MichaelHinzeCommunity Member
See attached. I revised slide 1.9 by:
- adding the buttons at the top to a button set. Here is some info on button sets.
- editing the slide layer properties to Hide Other Slide Layers.
Hope that's what you wanted.
- MaiaWintrobCommunity Member
Yes that's what I wanted!! :) But how do I make the buttons go back to the "normal" state of grey once they move to another click. I don't want them all to stay blue. Only turn blue when they are clicked on.
- MaiaWintrobCommunity Member
Never mind!! I figured it out!! Thank you very much!!
- SteveJohnson-8fCommunity Member
Maia, I am new as well and trying to create a click to reveal like this one. How did you get the buttons to return to their original state?
Hello Steve and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊
Thank you for reaching out to share what you would like to create with your project as well.
I'm not sure if Maia is still subscribed here, so I wanted to pop in to help.
You can set triggers to manually adjust the buttons to return to the Normal state when another button is selected, but it may be easier to build your using the built-in states and taking advantage of their behavior.
For example:
- Normal State in the beginning
- Hover State visual if needed
- Selected State (in place of the Visited State in Maia's file)
- Visited State - can mimic the Normal State if that's your desired look.
Let us know if you have any further questions!
- SteveJohnson-8fCommunity Member
Thanks, Leslie. What I'm really aiming for is a set of buttons or images that change when you hover over them, but not permanently.
And when clicked, they will reveal content using a layer. But what is difficult to map out is the ability to hover over and for instance show a highlighted drop color border of sorts and then when you click the image display that changed "selected look" image until a different image is clicked on.
I'd like to have it Return to its original state if a different button is clicked. Not sure if that makes sense, but so that only the presently clicked image would have the selected look of the drop-down color border, no matter if you've clicked all of them numerous times.
- MariaCSStaff
Hi, Steve.
Thank you for the additional details!
It sounds like a Button set would work for what you're looking for! You can adjust the states, so each button has Hover and Selected states that differ from the normal state.
Then you can select all your buttons, right-click, and choose to create a Button set.
What this does is allow only one button to be selected at a time.
Let me know if this helps!
- SteveJohnson-8fCommunity Member
Absolutely! I now have two really great ways to accomplish this, button sets and the additional information Walt provided. Thank you both!
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