Help Tab or Button?
By
Peg Simmons
What is the best way in Storyline to create a Tab or Button that is available on every screen for Help instructions? I created a marker with the expanding text box of Help information, but not sure how to get this to be available other than placing the marker on every screen. Is there a better way?
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Hey Peg!
I'm a fan of adding custom tabs to the player, and making them accessible on every slide, or just specific slides. Besides the four ready-made tabs that come with Storyline, you can also add tabs of your own. These tabs can contain any additional slide content that you want, or you can assign any other trigger action to them. Here's how to add a tab:
Thanks so much Peter for the quick and on-target response. Just wondering how to make the tabs on the left panel not appear when the Help screen does. If I change the Player it will do it for the entire course.
Hi Peg,
Hmm, maybe you can attach a screen shot of exactly what you're talking about just so we're on the same page? But if you enable any of the four built-in Storyline tabs (Menu, Resources, Glossary, or Notes), by default these will appear for all slides in your course. But if you want to show the tabs only when learners are viewing certain slides that's okay — you can do that. To learn how, check out this tutorial on slide properties.