Hiding menu items/branching

Hi Kathy,

I'm afraid there isn't a way to trigger the Storyline menu and I'm not aware of anyways to "filter" out specific slides or scenes from the menu, without removing them entirely from all slides.

The only options I can think of that might work for you are disabling the menu entirely from those scenes, or creating a custom menu. Obviously, the custom menu will probably be more time consuming, but in a way I think it might be the best choice. Not only would you have more control over what content the user sees, but you can control how they see it. Since your scenes are so different, you could incorporate the menu(s) to fit along with the design of those scenes.

Just some thoughts I wanted to share!

I'd love to hear some additional suggestions for this and I'm curious to see how you end up setting this up.

Best of luck Kathy! :)

Thanks, Christine!  I may try creating a custom menu.  I've never attempted one, but there's always a first! 

Hi Kathy,

Sounds awesome to me! I'd love to know how it turns out :)

Best of luck with the project!

How do you create a custom menu? Is that just a slide with an outline on it? Or, is there a way to actually make it show on the side like the current menu option? 

I am also trying to hide scenes in a multiple branching scenario. Even having to hide individual slides would work for me. 

Hi,

Were you able to create a custom menu? Would you share how you did it?

Thanks,

Hi Alain,

This conversation is a bit dated and I'm not sure that Kathy is still subscribed here.

I wanted to link you to a challenge that was held in our community where you can view some examples and peek at .story files to see how they were built.

Leslie,

Thanks for the link. I'm looking at those projects now. Looks like many, if not most of them, chose to hide the menu. I'll 'play' with different scenarios and let you know what I come up with. 

Here is the workflow for this course. It is divided into 8 sections and organized on 7 scenes in Articulate.

You can see why I need to hide scenes. However, now that I looked at the examples, I think that a graphical solution is possible. I will try hiding the menu itself and make sure that the learner can still navigate back and forth between sections. Maybe a small 'menu icon' most slides that open up a map with links to scenes or specific slides.

I will play with this and publish my results. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Alain

Sounds like a solid plan, Alain! If you're able to share a sample of the finished product, we'd love to see it!

I will share the project when done.

Alain

Am I understand correctly that you can hide the menu (Player options) is some scenes but not in others in the same course? I thought the Player options affected all scenes.

Please clarify, thank you. 

Hi Alain! You can customize which player features show in your slide properties. Using Story View, you can select multiple slides to make these changes more quickly.

That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. 

Hi Kathy and Alain! I'm curious as to what you ended up doing for this situation? I too have a branching scenario like this; I need to hide 3 of the 4 branching scenes from the menu player, therefore only displaying the 1 scene's path that was selected by the user.

Any advice would be helpful! 

Hi Kat, 

I'm not sure if Kathy and Alain are still subscribed here, as the post is a bit older - but you could always use the "contact me" button on a ELH users' profile to reach out to them directly! 

The player menu can't be accessed using triggers as you would on a slide itself, you may want to look at building a custom menu that is accessible from the slide's itself. Here's a bunch of examples to start your thinking!