Hi, I have a slide with a review activity using multiple Text Entry Fields that students are required to answer. How do I prevent them from going on to the next slide if there are TextEntry fields that they have left blank?
If you open the trigger wizard for the triggers that allow the trainee to progress to the next slide ( eg Click Next Button), click 'Show Conditions. Add a condition for each TextEntry variable like as follows:
AND/OR: AND
List: Variables
If: TextEntry variable
Operator: ! = Not Equal to
Type: (should fill in automatically - depends if text/numeric/trueorfalse variable is selected)
Value:
In your trigger pane it will show up as 'TextEntry variable is not equal to (blank)'
In addition, if you create triggers that match the navigation trigger (eg Click Next Button) then you can set up an error that says fill in fields (or something to that extent) when someone tries to leave the page before the activity has been finished. Just set up the oposite exceptions
AND/OR: OR (AND for the first variable only)
List: Variables
If: TextEntry variable
Operator: = = Equal to
Type: (should fill in automatically - depends if text/numeric/trueorfalse variable is selected)
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Hi Arlyn,
If you open the trigger wizard for the triggers that allow the trainee to progress to the next slide ( eg Click Next Button), click 'Show Conditions. Add a condition for each TextEntry variable like as follows:
AND/OR: AND
List: Variables
If: TextEntry variable
Operator: ! = Not Equal to
Type: (should fill in automatically - depends if text/numeric/trueorfalse variable is selected)
Value:
In your trigger pane it will show up as 'TextEntry variable is not equal to (blank)'
In addition, if you create triggers that match the navigation trigger (eg Click Next Button) then you can set up an error that says fill in fields (or something to that extent) when someone tries to leave the page before the activity has been finished. Just set up the oposite exceptions
AND/OR: OR (AND for the first variable only)
List: Variables
If: TextEntry variable
Operator: = = Equal to
Type: (should fill in automatically - depends if text/numeric/trueorfalse variable is selected)
Value:
Hope that helps!
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