hiding previous/next buttons

Maybe. If you could ATTACH your .story file, somebody here might be able to tell you exactly what it needs.

Sorry, that would help, wouldn't it...

It is for the slide on "My Summary".

Teresa,

I set the NEXT to disabled when the slide timeline starts.

Then on each layer, I set the next button to change it to Normal, if the buttons to visit the layers are both Visited.

OK.  I was trying to get it to force the learner to go back to the base layer before heading to the next slide, but as soon as you visit the second layer the next button is re-enabled... So they have two choices of buttons.  I kept both layers with "next" buttons to take them back to the base layer so they could access the layers in either order and still get back to see the other.

Is there no work around to send them back to the base layer first?

On each of the layers, change the order of the two triggers, so the layer is hidden first, then the state changed.

Hi Teresa!

Looks like Walt is continuing to assist you here.

I took a look at your file and thought I'd share a solution as well.

Unfortunately that doesn't work as the button changes to visited as soon as it's been clicked on, so the Next button still activates.

Leslie,

I can't tell what you have done to it other than take out the changing of the state back to normal as I can't see the slide view for some reason...  Did you change something in the slide layer?

This is the behavior I'm getting. Are you using the version I attached?

Hi Teresa!

Not sure why you cannot see the slide. Here is what I did:

Added 2 variables

Had the variables adjust on each slide layer, but they say the same thing:

I see it now, Walt and Leslie.  Sorry, I couldn't find the slide views which showed the layers so couldn't reproduce it on my version.

Thank you so much!

Glad that was able to assist you Teresa. Thanks for popping in with an update.

Now I'm stuck with a similar problem on the Tabs slide... It references multiple slides which all return back, and I need it to go the final slide once all of the others are complete.  But I can't get the next button to re-engage once they are all showing as visited.

I used Walt's solution for the previous problem, but now can't figure out how to get to the finish.... :-(

If you are going to different slides, you need Leslie's solution. My solution is simpler, but it relies on the layers being part of the main slide. Therefore, they can change the state of the NEXT button. Visited states are not as reliable when you visit other slides as they are when you visit layers on the same slide.

Leslie uses variables to mark sections as visited, and variables are pretty much bulletproof; they will always work, while states (like Visited) are much more fragile.

Thanks Walt.  Now I'll go and figure out how to do variables...

I think I tried something a bit complicated for my first course :-P

Here's a little something to get you started.

I created variables and triggers for My Profile, New Request, and My Summary. Think of variables as little notes written on the whiteboard to help the kids remember who has done what chore today. For something like "has the user visited this section?", I prefer True/False.

1. There is a trigger on the slide to change NEXT to normal when the timeline starts if all the variables have been completed. (I wrote it only for the 3 I created.)

2. Since the user can't click the NEXT button on the other slides until they complete the activity, it is a good way to know that they have completed it, so clicking the NEXT button on each slide sets the corresponding variable to true. Warning: changing the variable must occur in the list before the jump to the Main Tab slide, because once the jump is started, all other triggers in the list are forgotten.

3.There are custom states on the buttons that I created by copying the visited states. The built-in states have their own agendas and triggers, and that sometimes conflicts with mine, so I create my own states and delete any of the built-in ones that might conflict with them. In this case that's the visited state.

When the Main Tab slide's timeline starts, it checks and changes the state on any button that has been visited, and if they all have been visited, makes NEXT visible. If it doesn't work, sometimes you need to set it to reset to the initial state.

I've added the variables and the triggers on each page, but it still isn't re-engaging the next button... I'm not sure if I have the correct logic in terms of when to change the state..

Try changing the trigger on 1.4 to 'when timeline starts' instead of 'when variable changes'

Hi Wendy,

I did that, but it didn't change anything. It's still not re-engaging...

If DocumentDone is changed on another slide, this slide will not be able to notice it changing, and the trigger won't fire.

This trigger needs to be set to When timeline (of the slide) starts.

I don't know if this happens on any other slides, but the jump here occurs before the variable is changed, and once the jump starts, all other triggers below it in the list are forgotten.

Halleluiah!  It works now!  The last piece of the puzzle was the order of the triggers for changing the status and jumping to the next slide.

Thank you so much for all the help!!!!!