disable default Glossary Button

In From Home tab, choose Player. Select Resources and deselect Glossary.

This will disable Glossary on all slides.

Or in slide properties, you can disable it on an individual slide.

I know this....but i want to disable glossary button from menu. don't want to hide.   

Hi Mayur,

There isn't an option to disable it as it's a global setting for a course player. Can you share a bit more about how you're looking to use the glossary and the reasoning for disabling it? That would help us point you in the right direction. 

user can see glossary button, but that is not clickable for some slides.

Hi Mayur,

I'll leave you in the capable hands of the community - that would involve some customization of the player that's beyond my support (and abilities!). 

Best of luck in your project! 

My personal OPINION is that it is abuse of the user to show functional items that do not function, without an explanation. To disable the button, and to create an explanation is, to me, spending too many resources for very limited return.

I routinely turn the glossary off only for those slides where I don't want to distract the learner with it.

thanks all, i know that....but that is client requirement.

The disabling of the button on certain slides will cost a lot of resources (unless you already know how to customize the player to this extent). The client may not want to invest that much when they can have the button disappear for free :)

In the computer world, the answer to "Can we ...?"  is generally "Yes, but are you able and willing to commit the resources it takes?"

You can hide it which is the easier option, from a UI perspective an option that doesn't enable on a slide shouldn't be there.

Not sure the client would want to do it if they were aware of the work involved.

Thanks All. I'm happy with our discussion.

Is there a simple way of turning off the Glossary selection on the Slide, for every slide ?  (apart from editing each and every slide individually).

This should turn the Glossary off on every slide, all at once:

Hi Walt,

We tried turning off the global setting, but realised that all of the individual slides had been set to show the glossary, so the link was still showing in the player.

Having been through the slide deck, and thinking we'd changed every slide, we re-published and still saw the glossary link.

So it seems that an individual slide setting will override the global setting. we are still searching for the rogue slide (or slides...).

Stu

Hi Stu

if you open the file in story view - select all slides then in the slide properties panel you should be able to do a multiple deselect with one click.

Hi Wendy,

Thanks for that, that's the solution to my earlier post.

However, experimenting a bit with another story, I can set individual slides on and only those show the glossary link, or select all on and all show the link (as expected).

The issue we're having is that despite all of the slides and the global settings being off, we are still seeing the glossary link on every slide via the preview.  (This is in Storyline2).

Happy to take a look if you want to share the file

It appears the issue has 'resolved itself'... possibly by deleting the previous set of published files rather than overwriting. 

Thanks for your help :)

Good news Stu!