Having trouble with lightbox settings

Sep 25, 2015

SO I'm starting to wonder if there's a setting with lightbox-ing i'm unfamiliar with, because I can't figure out why the following scenario is occuring:

I have a Menu slide. There's an img users click to watch a video (Img 1). When users click on img 1 to watch the video. ...

I want users to get taken to a lightbox, where the video plays. When the video plays to completion they are automatically taken back to the Menu slide, where they now see img1 marked as 'complete' and a next button visible for them to click on and advance.

What my problem is:

The img1 file doesn't want to change states from Normal to 'complete', so the user returns to the Menu screen after watching the video and there is no indication the video is 'complete' and they also don't have the next button visible.

What I did: I set up a variable associated with the video file. When the video file fully played ('media completes') it would change the variable state to True.

I set up a trigger on the Menu slide to change img 1 and the next button to 'complete' and 'normal' states, respectively, IF variable state of video was equal to 'true'.

It seems that there's something wrong on my menu slide, that it isn't able to alter its states of things when its returned to, even though I've tried all 3 settings on the slide properties tab (Resumed Saved Sate, Reset Initial State, Automatically DEcide) to no avail.

Perhaps it's because when you set up a slide (Slide A) to go to a lightbox, you're not actually leaving Slide A, and so Variable states, as useful as they are, can't adapt real-time within slides? I dunno, I'm stumped.

10 Replies

Dan Beatty
Author

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:16 pm (UTC)

here's the file

LaserJet_Printers_StorylineUL.story

Walt Hamilton
Hero

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:31 pm (UTC)

Try this work around trick.

I did this before you posted your file, but I think this principle will work. If it doesn't, perhaps someone can look at your file.

I use a (nearly) invisible layer to change the variable. Since the layer is on the menu slide, the slide can catch the variable change and use it.

Close_LightboxWH.story

Dan Beatty
Author

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:42 pm (UTC)

I love your thinking.

Here's the issue. Although this TOTALLY solved the problem I was having of the next button and Img 1 changing states - they now do with these implementations (thank you!) - there's the problem that if they exit the lightbox BEFORE the video completes, they return to the menu slide and img 1 and the next button are 'complete' and 'normal', respectively. I only want them that way when the user watches the video to completion.

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:47 pm (UTC)

Walt - this is a really nice work around. I was going to tell Dan that there wasn't a way to do what he wanted to do. I learned something new today. Thanks!

Walt Hamilton
Hero

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:50 pm (UTC)

Wow, how did I miss that? Just need another variable on the lightbox slide. Try this

LaserJet_Printers_StorylineULWH.story

Dan Beatty
Author

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:55 pm (UTC)

At first I was like, "nah, see he's missing the fact that the ---OHHH there it is, he got it too - he made a trigger change to the slide layer and added and IF condition to the variable"

And so then I was like...

Thanks Walt!

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Nancy Woinoski
Hero

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 6:00 pm (UTC)

Hi Dan - you will need another variable for this. Create a true/false variable called videoDone and add a trigger to your lightbox slide that changes the variable to true when the video completes (media completes)

Then add a condition to the Set Variable1 trigger that Walt created on the slide layer that says to only if the variable videoDone is set to true.