Disable and enable navigation buttons

Apr 26, 2022

Hi there

I'm a bit stuck of how I trigger the disable and enable the buttons on the left hand panel. I would like the buttons to be disabled until a specific time before it becomes enabled. I thought I was on the right track, but now I'm confused why some of the buttons are disabled and other's aren't.

How can I achieve this? Please help.

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Regards, Sarala

2 Replies
Walt Hamilton

You need triggers that clearly reference a "when" that has a definite specific time, like the timeline of the slide.

For example "Change state of Law says HSRs to Disabled when the timeline starts on this slide", or "... when the timeline reaches xx sec".

Unless what you are trying to do is to disable one button while the layer before it is showing. In that case. put the trigger on the layer: "Change state of Law says about HSRs to disabled when timeline starts on layer Key terms".

If you want the learner to finish one layer before advancing, delete the buttons from the layers, so the only buttons are those on the base layer. Then Set all of them but the first one to disabled. When the learner finishes each layer, have them click something to go on, and use that click action to enable the buttons as you wish.

It would help narrow things down, if you could define what it is that you want.

Sarala Meenken

Hi Walt

Thank you for your reply. I needed some fresh eyes to look over what I was doing and give some options/solutions. I was feeling stuck and couldn't figure out what to do. I'll go give it another try based on what you've suggested. You might hear back from me.

Cheers, Sarala.