custom navigation bar

Hi Articulate community,

I have created a custom navigation bar in Storyline 360 to use in place of the default player since I want more control over the appearance and placing of buttons.

Since I need flexibility over which buttons appear on which slide, I have decided to place the nav bar elements in each individual slide, rather than in the slide master. I am wondering what the best practice is for this. I have so far done the following:

- created a separate layer for the nav bar and shown it when the timeline starts. However I have since realised that this will run into problems when using multiple layers that may require other layers to be hidden, so have abandoned this idea.

- so instead I’ve simply gone for the option of pasting the nav bar contents into the base layer; however this means that there are now about 5 separate elements added to each timeline (buttons, background etc). I looked into the idea of grouping them to make the timeline clearer, but this has had the effect of making all the rollover buttons display hover states when I roll over a single element.

What is the best way to implement a custom nav bar that keeps the timelines of slides clean and uncluttered?

Thanks,

Mark