Disable Next Button Until All Hotspots Visited (Storyline 360)

I promise I'm searching through the old discussions friends (and have watched a couple of tutorials) - just not finding the answer yet.

The Next button on my slide needs to be disabled when Timeline Starts until my learners hover over each of 4 hotspots on my slide. I've dutifully created 4 variables, one for each hotspot, that will change to "true" when the hotspots are hovered (each hotspot hovered shows a separate layer of content). The sequence of hovers should be flexible: I don't care which is hovered first or last, only that each hotspot is hovered over once.

How do I set up the simplest trigger condition to re-enable the Next button?

I've tried disabling until all the variables are true, but it's unclear to me what triggering event to use: Timeline Starts doesn't seem to work.

Grateful for the hand-holding here my heroes!

Ash

2 Replies

Tom Kuhlmann
Staff

over 1 year ago09/21/20 at 6:56 pm (UTC)

If you're using T/F triggers, I'd put them on the layers rather than the hotspot.

Change state of next button when timeline starts
On layers: Adjust variable to True when visited
When using variables you don't know which layer (or hotspot) they're visiting. So you need a trigger on each layer/hotspot to change the state of Next button to normal when variable changes on the condition that the other ones are true.

A different way to do it

Instead of hotspots, created a transparent shape with a visited state
Then you can change state of button to normal when the state of all shapes is visited
Variables give you more control, but states may be easier.

Rich Chapman
Author

over 1 year ago09/21/20 at 8:11 pm (UTC)

Simple, elegant answer Tom - crystal clear. Thank you so much!

I had not considered changing the state of the Next button from the layers rather than the base. I also like the idea of using transparent shapes with state changes and may try that at some point.

Really grateful for your quick help!

Ash