Customizing the Player Menu - Navigation Restriction

Hi Chris! With the menu navigation restriction in Storyline, there's not really a way to allow learners to click certain titles in the menu but not others. The menu restriction is all-or-nothing.

However, one idea is this: You could put your chapter 3 content in a separate scene, remove that scene from your sidebar menu, and place it as a lightbox on the top bar of your player instead. That way, learners can access it from the top bar of the player, any time they want.

Attached is an example. Does this fit what you're looking for?

Hi Jeanette,

Thank you for your quick reply.

Although it is somewhat of a work-around it does work really fine, so thank you for the solution.

regards,

chris

Yeah for something like this, I'd probably change the scene titles to something other than "chapter 1, chapter, 2, etc." ... because with a chronological numbering like that, it might seem confusing to the learner that you've got the first 2 chapters in the menu and the 3rd chapter on the player's top bar. Maybe you could rename the scenes so that they're more content-specific, and at the beginning of the course, explain how the scene in the top bar can be accessed any time but the other stuff needs to be experienced in a linear way.

Hey, Jeanette!  

Wouldn't a custom button placed appropriately somewhere also work?  Something that says "Skip Chapter 3" and that just links directly to Chapter 4. 

Don't custom buttons like this work around restricted nav?  Trying to remember . . .

Hi Gerry! Yep, that could totally work too! You could add the button to a slide master layout, and apply that layout to all slides except the ones in the "skipped-to" section.

Cool, THANKS.  Sometime the memory works but then other times . . . 

"I'm just a 64K guy in a 8-gig world."

Hi,

Jeanette, the menu labels 'chapter' and 'paragraph' were just for the example...you are right, that would be confusing. I do use more content-specific labels.

Gerry, you are right too. I am also using a custom button on some slides too. But I wanted to have both possibilities (so also the customized menu navigation) and the solution Jeanette wrote works perfect.

Thanks again for your suggestions.