Easy Question - Need to Prevent Slide Advance until all layers are viewed

Jul 10, 2019

I know it was in one of the zillion videos I've watched over the last two weeks but I am drawing a blank.

5 Replies
Ned Whiteley

Hi Lori,

Here is a quick example of how to use triggers to enable the Next button once all layers have been visited. If you want the final layer to be closed before the Next button is available, just use the Visited state of the "Return to Base Layer" buttons on each individual layer for the trigger as opposed to the Visited state of the three individual layer buttons on the base layer.

Hope this makes sense, but if you have any further queries, just post them here.

Ned Whiteley

Hi Lori,

A simple mistake that is easily rectified.

When you have added your trigger to jump to the next slide, the only time this will work is when tabs 2, 3 and 4 are all selected prior to tab 1 being selected. This is because the only time the variable Complete1 changes is when you click on the Back button in the Purpose layer and so, for the slide to change, Complete2, Complete3 and Complete4 already need to be True.

To resolve the issue, all you need to do is to repeat your Jump to Next Slide trigger for when each of the other variables change (i.e. you end up with four separate triggers). This also ensures that the slide will change irrespective of which order the tabs are visited.

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