Default to Closed Captions ON

Aidan Simpson

over 6 years ago01/19/18 at 4:25 pm (UTC)

Hi LaWaune,

You can achieve this using a variable trigger on your slide. Unfortunately, you'll need to do this on every slide where the captions appear. The good news is that once you create the trigger for one slide then it's a simple copy/paste job to the others. This forces the captions to turn on automatically at the beginning of each slide.

I've included a screenshot of the trigger we use for this.

ForceCaptions.png

Michael Hinze

over 6 years ago01/19/18 at 4:28 pm (UTC)

You should be able to add the trigger once on the master slide , which would then take effect on all slides.

Aidan Simpson

over 6 years ago01/19/18 at 4:32 pm (UTC)

That's an excellent suggestion Michael - I haven't tried that before!

over 6 years ago01/19/18 at 4:41 pm (UTC)

Thank you Aidan Simpson and Michael Hinze. That did the trick!

Malcolm Ditcham

6 years ago04/16/18 at 2:23 pm (UTC)

I love forums! Thanks for sharing :)

Russell Killips

6 years ago04/16/18 at 2:38 pm (UTC)

You could also change the default value of Player.DisplayCaptions to True.

I just noticed that changing the default to True only works for HTML5 output. It doesn't seem to work for Flash.

6 years ago04/16/18 at 2:47 pm (UTC)

So simple :) - I hadnt noticed the default value option. Thanks

Nikki May

over 5 years ago11/05/18 at 3:38 pm (UTC)

Just stumbled on this handy hint as I was looking for a method of doing just this - thanks so much to all for sharing!

Dot Mocalis

over 5 years ago11/08/18 at 3:53 pm (UTC)

This is awesome! Thank you!!!

Louisa Antoine

over 5 years ago01/22/19 at 2:41 pm (UTC)

Thanks so much to everyone for the tips.

Jerico Bartolome

5 years ago02/06/19 at 8:23 am (UTC)

Thanks!

5 years ago02/13/19 at 2:49 pm (UTC)

Great idea! Where do you find the default value of the player?

5 years ago02/13/19 at 4:18 pm (UTC)

The default value can be changed in the Variables screen.

Captions

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

5 years ago02/13/19 at 6:04 pm (UTC)

That's an easy way to handle it, Russell. Thanks for sharing :)

I just wanted to share some documentation on variables in case anyone following along needed some additional information on the topic.

Ajay Balakrishnan

5 years ago04/03/19 at 2:41 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I have many storyline outputs already published and wondering if there is a way to edit an XML or similar file in the output to turn on the Player.DisplayCaptions to true. Is it possible?

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

5 years ago04/03/19 at 5:41 pm (UTC)

Hi Ajay!

We want your published file to work smoothly in all supported browsers, so we don't support modifying the published output. Other folks in the community may have discovered a workaround to share with you here!