FAQs in Storyline

You could always just use a Scrolling Panel for this, (apologies for the blurring needed on the text, but you get the idea...)

Bruce

For a Timeline - Phil Mayor's "Apple/Steve Jobs Timeline" is the thing to copy, he may come along and post a link if it is still around.

Bruce

Thanks Bruce here is a link it can be viewed from there.  It was built to copy the engage timeline.

Hey, Bruce!  Have you experimented with using an existing web-based glossary as a web object inside the scrolling panel?

This is such a vibrant community! Thanks a lot people. Off to see Phil's but please keep suggestions coming, especially on the FAQ: thanks for the scroller idea (I didn't know I could but then I am just starting out) but I think I will need a collapsible structure with main headings (if I remember correctly, Engage did the collapsing structure but not with main headings: I'll check).

Thanks again.

Rem

Hey Gerry!

No!

Bruce

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Sometimes the Wicked Wombat just hasn't got the brainpower left to try everything... 

Here I was just being lazy (and not trying this out myself first ) and you "caught me." 

Depending on the number of questions under each section, you could toy with just using the layers. Have the collapsed menu be your base layer and when someone clicks one of those main topics, it triggers a layer with that section expanded showing the sub-questions. Clicking on the (-) sign would take them back to the base layer. In essence you'd be immitating an expanding/collapsing feature by using the layers. Granted, they could only have one section open at a time.

For each question, trigger another layer with the answer. Again, this is just one way of doing it. Not sure if you're wanting a click the question to reveal the answer setup or a simple question and answer all showing together and they scroll to view all the questions.

This thread, (IMHO) shows the answer to the "Should I buy SL or (new) Studio?"- threads.

Studio has certain pre-built components that do not exist (yet?) in SL, and vice-versa.In SL there's a lot more of "How could I build this?" to be done.

I have to admit, it would be great to have the same capabilities with the built-in "animation" of e.g. the Studio FAQ in SL, but there are many other options available.

I guess it also depends on what house-style people/companies have developed, and whether they are able to change them.

Bruce

@Jamie: ideally, I would want a click to reveal each answer too, but I will spend some time thinking about simplifying design, I have to start somewhere so I think I'll take your suggestion and experiment. But when you refer to the collapsable menu, do you mean one in Storyline? Ican't find an interaction that does that.

@Bruce: I suppose you're right, though I have no idea what's planned for the new Studio. Interestingly (for me) it may be that even a port to HTML5 may not be ideal if the philosophy of Studio remains that outputs cannot be used as standalone.  That was why I ended up using other (and inferior) tools. I only ever used Engage (not Presenter or Quizmaker) but I wanted to used it nested into a standalone pdf (not necessarily with a web connection). Although Engage exported the swf, it did not work on its own, but only as a web object, so that could not work for me. I have yeet to try it with Storyline but I have already seen it imports as a web object so the question is whether Storyline allows the web object to be embedded or whether it is still dependent on its external URL. If the latter, then I am much better off using native Storyline functionality. More to the point, if the new Studio retains its original philosophy, then an HTML5 port loses its appeal (if I can't use outputs as standalone), even if those outputs have greater reach across platforms.

Anyway, when is the next point release of Studio expected?

Thank you all for your suggestions and tips.

Rem

Hi all,

Couldn't find a storyline question thread. Please point me to the right one if this isn't one.

Any tutorials on using question banks in storyline? Is the randomization and pooling capabilities compatible with iPad?

Thanks

Hi Margharita,

Here's some step-by step-instructions:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/creating-and-editing-question-banks.aspx

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/drawing-from-question-banks.aspx

Here's a tutorial by Jeanette on how to to use a question bank to create random branching: https://player.vimeo.com/video/145579090

Hope this helps!  Oh - and feel free to start your own thread any time you don't find your answer.  

Jill

Jill,

This was very helpful! Thanks =)

Hi,

Can someone help me in creating an interactive FAQ slide with search option using Storyline 2.0? Something similar to the Engage FAQ interaction...

Sumit

Hi Sumit,

Can you use the example and template here? 

Hope that helps!