Drag & Drop
Jul 25, 2014
I have a free form drag and drop set up on a slide that has 6 items and 3 targets. The slide also has animated text and audio on the base layer. Any ideas how can I get the drag and drop items to reset for a second attempt without having the slide replay? I followed one example that sort of works, but on the second attempt when you start dragging an item they all immediately pop back to their "saved state" position from attempt 1.
Last thing I thought of was linking the Try Again button to reload the current slide and see if I can set the playbar to complete so the text and audio does not play.
Guess I can try setting a variable to only play the audio once and set it back to try if the user leaves the slide. Might try that approach.
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If I understand your dilemma correctly, you don't want the audio to restart when the learner returns to retry?
If so, the way I've always fixed the return to a slide audio issue is to duplicate the slide and take off the audio for the second slide and of course set all buttons to point to that slide.
Hi Kimberly, Yes - that option crossed my mind as well. I was hoping to remain on the question slide. I'm going to keep playing with it. Don't like a software program to get the best of me! If I find a another solution I'll post it.
Thanks!
Bob
You should be able to set up a true/false variable.
Set the variable to false
Have a trigger to play the audio when the variable is false.
Place an object off stag,e timed to audio ending.
Set up a trigger to change the variable to true when that object is normal.
Thanks! Still hacking at it. Sounds like a good option as well.
Ok, I figured it out. My drag and drop now works! I was pulling my hair out until I figured out there is a slight programming bug in the Articulate drag and drop editor. Only ONE of the Drop Target options work properly when objects are reset in free form mode. (at least with my current code)
Ok, I stripped this interaction out of my full demo slide deck. Hopefully it works ok... I tested it out and it still seems to function properly. The Drag and Drop items programming can be a little tedious depending upon how many items you have. This seems to work. The items reset, and the slide gives you a second attempt without playing the media on the main slide. I inserted my own CA option. This is still being revised... just a draft concept. Now I need to make it look pretty for the client.
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