Drop Down Menu with Variables

Hi Rachel,

I reworked your file a bit for you.  To achieve your goal, you only need the 4 text entry variables.  These are automatically created when you add a data entry box.  I've renamed the variables to match your input fields.  I've also deleted all the other T/F and text variables.

Next, I switched the triggers to adjust the text entry variables to the names of the cities when the user clicks one of the city names.  I then removed the red button and added a trigger to close the layer when the user clicked a city name.  Finally, I added a hover state to your cities to create a bit more of a drop down menu look and feel.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mike

Mike Enders,

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It might take me a while to understand it myself but it works perfectly,

Kindest regards

Rachel

Rachel the basic gist is that you can assign a value (in this case a word) to a text variable.  In simple terms we're saying "Hey Storyline, if the user clicks the word "Billingham", please fill in the text entry box with the word "Billingham".  Oh, and please close this layer too!

And then we do that for each word in the drop down menu that you created.  By the way...brilliant idea, the drop down menu on a layer!

Mike

Thank you i certainly seem to be learning fast .

If you're doing drop down menus on a layer to cause a change on the base layer....then yes, you are learning very quickly!  

Awesome!

Mike and Rachel,

Your post above has answered one of the issues I'm researching.....thank you!

Taking this one step further.....is there capability in Storyline to add a calendar of dates to a data entry field where the learner can just click on "todays" date from a calendar which will populate in the data entry field?  Something simular to the drop down menu of locations that Rachel, you created.  From past experience we get all sorts of strange information in the "date" field, even if we indicate the format we require (i.e., yyyy-mm-dd) so we were hoping to provide a foolproof option this time.

Kirsten 

Kirsten,

There's not a built-in calendar selection function.  I'm wondering if maybe there is some way via javascripting...but that's beyond my feeble powers!  

Mike

Yay for this community - you just gave me the answer to something before I spent hours trying to work it out. Got some awesome drop downs and variables happening now!!!

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