Help with Menu Buttons Visit State

The easiest thing to do here is to not use the built in button states. Create a custom button state that you could name Complete or something. Then use a true/false variable for each chapter. Set the variable to change to true on the last slide of the chapter, then on the menu, change the button to Completed state when chapter variable is true. 

Otherwise, if you want to use the built in visited state, do the above, but on the menu slide have a trigger that says if chapter is false change button to normal, then once the variable is true the visited state will stay. 

Storyline has predefined behavior for the visited state. To do what you want, you should create a custom state to the button. On the menu slide, set a trigger to change the state of the button when the timeline starts if the variable tells you the chapter is done.

In the last slide of the chapter, set the variable that tells you the chapter is done when the timeline starts.

Let me know if you need additional guidance.

Hi there,

Thanks for the suggestions, we have tried to do as you have said and we still aren't getting the result we need.

Therefore I have attached a stripped down example of the storyline file so hopefully you can see where we have got it wrong!

Thanks again for all the help.

You were close. I only changed the trigger on the menu slide to change the status when the timeline starts with the condition that the variable is true. You can't use when the variable changes because that doesn't happen while this slide is showing.

That worked a treat Diane, thank you for all the help :)

You're welcome. Glad I could help you out.

Hello Diane,

I think I'm having a similar issue with visited buttons and unfortunately the file provided on this thread as a solution isn't quite clear to me.

My sample file is attached and I'm hoping you can guide through a solution:

All slides in the presentation are advanced manually by the user.

As each of the required list of buttons is clicked, it triggers to the correlated slide with more information on that subject. That subject, once read by the user, has a button that returns the user to this Functionality (source) slide for the user to make another selection.

I’m trying to get each/all visited buttons to show they have already been clicked and therefor the user need not select them again. But each time the user returns (by design) to this source page it reappears in it initial/default state.

I’ve tried using the States tab options of both “Visited” and “Selected” but to no avail. Please advise. Your help would be greatly appreciated! – Glenn Hopper

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for sharing that file! Two things to take into account here:

1. When Revisiting, you'll want to set your Menu slide to Resume Saved State, so that when the user returns, the state change to Visited will remain.

2. You'll also want to re-style your Visited state so that it's not the same as your Normal state to show when it's activated. I've started the first one for you in the file attached. Take a look and let me know if this helps!

This is perfect Ren! My file is working perfectly now. Appreciate all your help!