Drag and drop - Drag items return to their original location

Hey Ant, here is one thing you can do - set the revisit property  on the drag and drop slide to "reset to initial state"

Create a scene with a blank slide - add a trigger to the slide that jumps to the drag and drop slide when the timeline starts

Then on the incorrect feedback slide - change the retry button to jump to the blank slide when the user clicks the button.

There might be an easier way to do this but this works for me.

Thanks again Nancy, but sorry that's confused me, what's the blank slide doing?

When the user clicks the re try button instead of going back to the main drag and drop layer you jump to a blank slide and then the bland slide says to jump back to the drag and drop question. It is just a little trick for resetting the drag and drop screen back to its initial state so that the user can try again

Great, that works! Thanks Nancy!

Glad that Nancy was able to assist you here Ant :)

This works....just a slightly weird flash as the blank slide loads then re-loads the drag and drop but it seems like an option to reset on incorrect would be a good addition to drag and drop (unless I am missing something).

Hi John,

By default we've kept the drag and drop showing the previous answers on a retry/reattempt of the slide. If you'd like to see a different behavior we'd love to hear more as a Feature requests here. If you’re wondering what happens when you submit a feature request, here’s our process.

Hi Ashley,

I have a similar problem but my drag and drop interaction slide is within a question bank. So when I try to create a trigger on the 'try again' layer telling the course to 'jump to' a particular slide, all I can see is the first slide in the question bank. All other slides are hidden.

Thanks for letting us know what's going on, Mira. You're right--that workaround isn't the best solution for a drag and drop slide in a question bank. Hopefully other community members who have used a similar set-up can chime in with their tips!

Has anyone found a solution to reset drag items to initial state when the user clicks retry?  I want the user to try once, have the items go back to start, try once more, and show the answer if they get it wrong again. The suggestions above about jumping to the current slide works fine for unlimited attempts but resets the attempts if you have set it to 2.

I have submitted a feature request to add reset to initial state on retry in the drag options of the question form.

Hi Rob, agree it's a messy workaround.

can't  you just have the attempt variable set to 1 instead (are you using a custom variable).

Perhaps share the slide and someone can take a look for you

Setting to 1 attempt won't allow the user to try again,

I want the user to try once, get a try again feedback and try once more (so, 2 attempts) then get the incorrect feedback which tells them the answer.

There is currently no way to set the drop objects to their initial state from either a trigger or drag options.  

Looking on the forum, it appears this has been a request since version 1. surprising it still hasn't been implemented.

I have exactly the same requirement as this. I have tried resetting the drag drop slide on return, linked this to the try again button, so when the try again button is pressed the drag and drop elements are back to their starting positions, but this also resets  the try count, so a loop is created.

Hi Rob

sorry I thought I posted this reply and example yesterday...attached is a slide but I have made it into a Pick One instead of DnD...see if this would work for you. Here is a Peek video

I prefer the drag and drop items to go back to the initial state each time. Here’s an example you can download. 

https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-drag-and-drop-matching-quiz

I think you could just set up a variable that tracks each time the user clicks the try again button, and after that reaches two tries then it could branch to a layer that shows them the correct answer. 

Hi Ashley, I'm just wondering if this feature request has been actioned. I have a drag and drop that i would like the Drag Items to return to their original position once the try again button has been clicked. Any updates? Thanks

Lesley 

Hi Lesley

you can fake this by setting the trigger on the Try again layer to jump to the slide instead and setting the slide 'reset to initial' state.  If you have a limited number of attempts you'll need to control that with variables.

Hope this helps

Sneaky! Thanks. We do have a limit of three attempts so will have a go at the variables too.

happy to help if you get stuck.