'Disabled' and 'normal' states when revisiting

Jul 22, 2013

I have a slide where the base layer functions as a menu (six buttons trigger separate layers each with a quiz question). I built triggers so that when:

-the timeline starts all buttons are disabled except for the Question 1 button

-when Question 1 button has been visited Question 2 button goes to 'normal' (active)state

-when Question 2 button has been visited Question 3 button goes to 'normal' (active) state

-and so on

After going to each question slide, users select an answer to the question and see the appropriate (correct or incorrect) feedback layer. Then they click the 'continue' button and go back to the base layer.

I have a separate slide that is a reference guide and is linked in the player, so as to be accessible at any point in the lesson. The reference slide only has a previous button in the player. Whenever it is viewed, the user can click the prev button to go back to the menu slide. The problem is that when the user goes to the reference guide after visiting Question 1, Question 2 becomes 'disabled' again and hence the user can't visit or answer any of the remaining questions. I have slide properties set to resume saved states.But it seems SL is not 'saving' or recalling that the Question button states have been triggered to 'normal.'

I can't seem to tell what the problem is here. Any help would be very much appreciated!!

Thanks,

Lindsey

11 Replies

Justin Grenier
Staff

almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 3:03 pm (UTC)

Hi, Lindsey.

I think we may need to take a look at your file in order to determine the root cause of the problem. You can either share it as an attachment to your next reply in this Forum Thread, or if you'd prefer to maintain privacy, submit it as part of a Support Case so that we can take a look.

Thanks!

Jesse Cabaniss

almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 3:21 pm (UTC)

I honestly think it has to do with the "When revisiting" field. Be sure that when in story view you have the main slide clicked and confirm that it says "Resume saved state" in that box. If it is and you're still running into the problem, I think we might have to see the story file to figure out what's going on.

Jesse Cabaniss

almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 3:29 pm (UTC)

Not sure if this helps, but here is an example of what I think you are referring to.

revisit+main+slide.story

Lindsey Brockish
Author

almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 3:38 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. Jesse, your assumption about how I want this to work (based on the story you posted) is correct. I am pretty sure I selected slide (not layer) properties to designate 'when revisiting.'

I've attached the file.

Thanks!
Lindsey

side+effects.story

Jesse Cabaniss

almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 3:48 pm (UTC)

I see why it's not working. You have triggers set up to make the buttons disabled when the timeline starts. You can delete those triggers because you can set the initial state of the buttons to "disabled" and then everything should work as intended.

Lindsey Brockish
Author

over 10 years ago07/26/13 at 10:50 am (UTC)

Thanks, Jesse! This solved it.

Best,

Lindsey

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 10 years ago07/26/13 at 10:58 am (UTC)

Glad you're good to go Lindsey! Thanks Jesse! I hope both of you have a great day!

8 years ago02/17/16 at 12:14 am (UTC)

Jesse,

Thanks so much for this post. I was trying to change the button states from disabled to normal and then to visited as each scene in the lesson was visited. I tried every way to do it, but then I found this post which was so simple! Here's the final code that I used for anyone who might have the same trouble doing changing button states on scenes.

Button_State_Changes_for_Scenes.jpg

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

8 years ago02/17/16 at 2:27 pm (UTC)

Hi Ellen! This thread is a bit dated, but I'm glad that it was able to assist you. Thanks for popping in to share your sentiments and a solution with the community :) I'm sure it could help someone in the future.