Hiding items in the Menu

Hi Sam,

When viewing the Menu within the Player Properties, you can select a menu item and then click on 'Delete heading' (the red x icon) - this will only delete the heading from your menu rather than delete the applicable slide

Antony 

Hi Sam,

You can actually delete items from your menu, such as quiz slides, so learners can't see them and know they're there. If you delete something from the Menu, it doesn't delete the slide.

Check out the tutorial here: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/customizing-the-player-menu.aspx

(The below information is from the same tutorial.)

Removing items from the menu

Want to remove a title from the menu? No problem — just select the scene or slide, and then click the Delete Heading button below the menu. Any scenes or slides you hide from the menu will still be part of your course; it's just that their titles won't appear in the menu any more.

If you delete a title that has items below it which are at a greater indent level, Storyline will also give you the option of keeping or removing that title's children.

Thank you both 

Have a nice afternoon.

-Sam

One more quick question... what if I delete them for now but would need to bring the titles back later?

Looks like resetting the menu might do it? Can anyone confirm...?

Hi Sam,

Yes, if you delete something from the menu in the Player settings, you can restore it by clicking on the "Reset" option. This will pull in all the slide titles you have in your course, along with those that were removed previously.

Let us know if you have any other questions :)

Christine

Sam,

That's correct. Resetting the menu will put everything you've taken out back into the menu.

I have a follow-up question with regard to that:

Does this also mean by hiding the slides or scene in the menu will also disable to triggers connected to those slides? I am experiencing that because it doesn't show the slide that I have hidden in the menu.

Thanks!

Hi Kai,

Hiding items in the menu shouldn't disable the triggers. Perhaps you could upload your story?

Thanks Rebecca. You are right, it doesn't. It works perfectly fine. I just forgot to relink the slides when I was QA'ing.

Glad it was that easy to sort out, Kai.

Hi all,

It's indeed easy to hide items from the Articulate menu, but I have trouble with the Articulate search bar. The hidden slide still appears in the search results. Is there any way to hide a slide from the search function as well?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Happy Friday, MindBytes—and great question!

Storyline will pull all slide text and notes when using the Search function. We're tracking requests to customize the player's search behavior, where I'll include your voice in our report and let you know if we add this enhancement to a future update.

The community may have designed a way around this, so I'll open the floor to them!