Hi Storyline 2 folks
Mar 14, 2015
By
Karen Buc
I have a challenge I need some immediate help with. I am designing an interaction that has the base and four layers. once the use clicks a button layer 1 appearas. I then want them to hit a close button to hide the layer so then can hit another button and open the next layer, etc.
The problem is that the close button on the base layer (the screen that appears when the storyline opens, doesn't work even though I have put a "Hide layer, this layer when user clicks text box 3 trigger" (on the base layer).
I looked at a template that does something similar and cant see what I am doing wrong!!
Kris
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it is simpler to put the close button on the actual layer rather than the base layer. No reason why it cannot just overlay the button on the base layer
Thx Phil but its the base layer i wish to close.
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Or rather have unviewable as others appear
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Can you just go into properties for that layer and select "hide objects on base layer"? (right click on the gear beside the name of the layer over on the right. Does that take care of it?
You can't hide the base "layer" itself as it is not really a layer, but you can hide the objects on the base as Leigh suggests.
In addition to Leigh's suggestion, another very simple option is to just have a rectangle object on each of your layers that covers everything on the base. You could make it black (or white) and semi-opaque so that it visually "dims" the objects on the base and they cannot click through the rectangle to the base objects. Depending on your layout, it could make a nice effect.
Thx I'll explore that!
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Hello Karen,
Welcome to the community. Glad you got some assistance here. The Hiding Base layer objects would be found in the layer properties here:
awesome I think I was looking for that on the base layer properties not slide layer. It would be nice to be able to select specific items on the base layer to hide...maybe that is for Storyline 3 ;)
thanks so much for the assistance, I love the articulate support team and other users who are always willing to jump in and help.
cheers
Hi Karen -
You can indeed select specific objects on the base layer to hide. In your layer, look at the bottom of your timeline and you will see Base Layer below all of your layer's objects. Expand Base Layer using the dropdown arrow and you will see all of the objects on the base layer. You can then deselect the ones you want to hide.
Hi Karen,
Glad you got that sorted! And as Chris shared, you can hide select items from the base layer.
so awesome!!
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