I'm having trouble finding out how to disable a hotspot in Storyline 2. I'm sure it's a simple fix, and I'll probably kick myself when I learn it. Basically, I want to stay on the page, just click a hotspot, and new text is revealed. Then I want the hotspot to either go away, or become disabled so the user can't click on it any more. Thoughts?
You cannot disable a hotspot, you can use a transparent shape and that can be disabled. Or you could show a transparent shape over your hotspot so it cannot be clicked.
Good to know, though I am disappointed. I tried programming a rectangle shape to do it first, but had issues. I'll try it again. It just seems like disabling a hotspot should be a given. Why wouldn't they allow it?
I just tried that, and something's still quirky. My links are blue text with no underline. When I hover over the link I change the state to "Hover" which includes a blue underline. When they click the state changes to "Visited" with black text and no underline. I also disable the hot-rectangle-spot. For some inextricable reason, even after it's disabled, hovering over the same spot still displays the blue underline as if it's still going to the Hover state. I'm perplexed. Clicking on it doesn't reveal the text again, just the blue underline as if the Hover part is still enabled. Does this make sense?
Once an item is disabled, it should not have the hover state appear. Please confirm you are working locally as described here. Have you seen this happen on other shapes or just this one? you may want to copy the items into a new slide.
As Wendy stated, you could also share the file or the slide in question here for us to take a look.
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You cannot disable a hotspot, you can use a transparent shape and that can be disabled. Or you could show a transparent shape over your hotspot so it cannot be clicked.
Good to know, though I am disappointed. I tried programming a rectangle shape to do it first, but had issues. I'll try it again. It just seems like disabling a hotspot should be a given. Why wouldn't they allow it?
Hotspots don't have states by design.
Easy way to do it is set a rectangle to transparent (don't use no fill). The set a trigger to set it to disabled when user clicks.
I just tried that, and something's still quirky. My links are blue text with no underline. When I hover over the link I change the state to "Hover" which includes a blue underline. When they click the state changes to "Visited" with black text and no underline. I also disable the hot-rectangle-spot. For some inextricable reason, even after it's disabled, hovering over the same spot still displays the blue underline as if it's still going to the Hover state. I'm perplexed. Clicking on it doesn't reveal the text again, just the blue underline as if the Hover part is still enabled. Does this make sense?
Hi Ryan
Do you want to share the file to take a look at
Hello Ryan!
Once an item is disabled, it should not have the hover state appear. Please confirm you are working locally as described here. Have you seen this happen on other shapes or just this one? you may want to copy the items into a new slide.
As Wendy stated, you could also share the file or the slide in question here for us to take a look.
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