Displaying Words Based on Checkbox Selection

Hi Brian, I understand the problem you have. Storyline doesn't provide any concatenation of variable values. When I have had to do this, I have relied on JavaScript to concatenate the variable values and then feedback the concatenated values to a Storyline variable.

In your case, I would have a variable for each of your 0-9 options (e.g opt0, opt1, opt02 etc) and assign the variables the values of the check boxes if they are selected.

I would then use a JavaScript function to concatenate the values and assign to a new variable. If we have a Storyline variable called "concattext" our JavaScript might look something like this.

var player = GetPlayer();
var concattext = "";
var slvars = ['opt0','opt1','opt2'];
slvars.forEach(function(item, index){
 if(player.GetVar(item) !== "")
  {
    if(concattext !== "") concattext += " and ";
    concattext += player.GetVar(item);
  }
});
concattext = "You felt "+concattext;
player.SetVar('concattext',concattext);

You could modify the JS a bit more so that you insert a comma instead of  " and " if there are more that two options selected. You could have another storyline variable that passes that information.

Hi Sam. Thank you for the response! I really appreciate you including the JS snippet. That did the trick and is so much easier and faster than what I'd been considering. THANK YOU!

If you care to share more, what would that second JS look like to include commas, rather than just Ands?

var player = GetPlayer();
var concattext = "";
var slvars = ['opt0','opt1','opt2'];
var sltotalselected = player.GetVar('totalselected');
var count = 1;
slvars.forEach(function(item, index){
 if(player.GetVar(item) !== "")
 {
     if(concattext !== "")
     {
         concattext += sltotalselected !== count ? ", " : " and ";
     }
     concattext += player.GetVar(item);
     count++;
 }
});
concattext = "You felt "+concattext;
player.SetVar('concattext',concattext);

Something like the above. Warning, not tested though. You'd need an SL variable tracking the number of options selected so the script can access it to determine where commas and the final "and" sit.

This is a great spot for me to start. I really appreciate your help! Thank you so much, Sam!