Conditional variables and the Next Button

I did get something to sort of work but it isn't a clean solution so... I'm still open to suggestions.

Hi Jennifer!

Glad to hear you're putting the test to your trial version. I went off and built a demo of your request not knowing you had figured it out yourself.

For what it's worth, here's an approach I took. Simple set up.

• Create a single Number variable. I named it "Layer" with a default value of 0
• Set up your base slide and layers how you want them to look and behave
• Add five total triggers to the base slide
• -  Adjust Variable - Add 1 to Layer (variable) when the user clicks the Next button
• -  Show Layer 1 when the user clicks the Next button IF "Layer" is equal to 1
•  - Show Layer 2 when the user clicks the Next button IF "Layer" is equal to 2
•  - Show Layer 3 when the user clicks the Next button IF "Layer" is equal to 3
• - Jump to Slide 2 when the user clicks the Next button IF "Layer" is equal to 4

Note: Be sure the "Add 1 to Layer" trigger is the first in the stack of triggers.

That's it. This is probably what you figured out already. If not, hope this helps solve your request.

Thanks Kevin for helping out Jennifer here! 

No problem!

This is great. Thank you. I got it to work on my slide and clicked the preview. The first time I view the slide it works great.

However, when I jump around in the course and come back, it doesn't seem to build it again. It's as if the next button doesn't reset to 0  in this case.

Any idea why this might be and how to get around it?

Jennifer

Hi Jennifer,

You'll need to set up a trigger to reset the variable based on when the timeline starts - so that if they revisit the slide, they'll be able to start again. 

Thank you.

It's me again. Now that I understand the logic of the Next button, I'm going in circles about how to do the reverse for the Previous button.\

Any pointers?

Hi Jennifer,

When you want to go in reverse, do you want the slide to begin as it were? If so, do these two things:

1. Add a trigger to the slide with the layers that resets that number variable back to it's initial value - Adjust Variable "Layer" =Assignment to 0.
2. In the Slide properties, set the slide to reset to initial state.

That should allow the Previous button on Slide 2 to go back to Slide 1 as if you were visiting it for the first time.

Thanks Kevin!