Hotspots, Layers and Triggers, oh my!

Nov 24, 2015

Michael Wilder
By Michael Wilder

Hello,

I am trying to create a slide with hotspots that, once hovered over, will show a layer (fine and good). But that layer has a caption that I want to be clickable (to go to another slide).  When I choose "Restore on mouse leave" so the layer goes back to Base Layer, the user can't click on the caption that popup. 

My second attempt then made the hotspot itself have two actions: 1) hover over to display the new layer, and 2) click to jump to the new slide. Even though that sounds logical, it's not working.  Can you have 2 actions (hover and click) operating on the same hotspot?  

I think there's a way to make either of my methods work, but it's not working and I'd love to hear from StoryLine expert's advice.  I have attached the .story file here. Look at slide 1.1.  (slide 1.2 was another attempt with triggers).

Thank you,

Michael

34 Replies
Walt Hamilton
6 years ago03/07/18 at 3:01 pm (UTC)

The bottles is an answer to Prudence.

I think the restore on leave is overriding the click. The click changes the state, later the mouse leaves, and the restore on leave changes it back to the original state. There is no limit to how many triggers a hot spot can have, but the actions of some of them may counter the actions of others. If that doesn't help, start a new project, import only that slide, replace sensitive material with dummy material, and attach it here. You'll likely get a better answer.

Prudence Mdaka
6 years ago03/08/18 at 1:20 pm (UTC)

Hi all,

This is just a freefrom question as part of the content and not a quiz.

Drag bottle 85% drop in the box,  feedback to be revealed as incorrect, try again

Dag bottle 75% drop in the box,  feedback to be revealed as incorrect again, try again

Drag bottle 90% drop in the box, feedback to be correct, well done, great job .

Click continue.

 

 

Leslie McKerchie
6 years ago03/09/18 at 6:03 pm (UTC)

Hi Prudence!

A couple of things I noticed and another question :)

1. The bottles were disappearing off the timeline before I could drop them anywhere. Not sure if you meant for them to be shown until the end.

2. In Form View, no drag items are designated.

3. What is the correct answer? Looks like you are saying it's the 90%, but if you have bottles disappearing, how is the user to correct their answer for submission?

Hopefully this gets you closer to resolution :)

Prudence Mdaka
6 years ago03/12/18 at 8:23 am (UTC)

Hi All,

I needed to re-start my machine in order to get the slide to work the way you all helped me, for some reason I seem to have issues with my storyline if my machine has gone days without being shutdown. I got it going and it's thanks to your help.

I am going to post in a different discussion, the issue of my slide numbering on this same module, I have tried everything ( reset player) and it's just now working.

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