Default settings in Storyline

Hi!

No can do.  Many of us have asked for this for the same reasons you give. 

Or you past an object from a longer length slide to a shorter length slide and the pasted object increases the timeline length of the shorter slide unnecessarily.

I'd add your voice with a feature request.

The more voices, the better.

Thanks Gerry,

I agree with the timeline extension issue as well. I'd also like to be able to create a new object with a pre-set animation...for those recurring pieces.

I'll post in the features requests...though I'm still with StoryLine 1, which I'm guessing isn't going to get much updating.  I've just not found a strong enough reason to invest in StoryLine 2 yet.

Thanks again,

John

I entered a feature request for this, too.  However, has there also been a bug identified?

I have a slide where everything is set to 5 sec.  I create a new slide, and it's set to 5 sec.  Then, I copy/paste the objects from the first slide to the second slide, and now everything on the second slide is extended to 83 sec.

Happens every time.  Thoughts?

Not seen that, but to quickly get the Timeline back, grab the end, start to slide to the left, and click the "left arrow". It will shoot back to the end of the longest item you have on the Timeline.

Thanks, Bruce... I didn't know that, and that does help get it set correctly faster.  If this isn't a known bug, I'll look at submitting my file to support.  Thanks.

Hi Heather,

I haven't seen that either - and if it's happening in every file, every time we'll definitely want to take a look. You can share it here or with our Support team. 

If it's just one file, I'd look at importing it into a new project first. 

I did some more testing because it wasn't every file and every slide, but it did happen a lot.  I finally narrowed it down to happening when I copy/paste a group of objects.  When I expand the group, every object says it's only 5 sec, but it pastes as 83 sec.  I submitted a support ticket with a file attached that you can use to replicate.  

If you come back and say I'm blind and there really is an 83 sec image in that timeline, I'm going to just have to go home and lie down for the rest of the day.  :)

Hi Heather,

Do you have a case number you could share with us? 

I never got an email from support after submitting it, so I just submitted it again.  00439574 

Thanks for sharing Heather. We will keep an eye on this case for updates

Hi Everyone

I am a newbie here for Ariculate. My question is "Can I reset the default starting times for the objects such as highlight boxes around the click area adn speech boxes and hint boxes etc.

Not sure if this feature is now available as this thread is quite old.

Kind regards

Harry

Hi Harry,

Thanks for reaching out! The functionality is still the same for adding objects to a slide in that it will default to filling the timeline.

I do want to mention; if you copy an object, even from a different slide, it will retain the length of that time when you paste it. Hopefully that helps you save time as you continue to build your course!