Hover Over Trigger used on Text not working in Storyline 3.

Mar 12, 2018

In Storyline 2 I could highlight a few words of text, do a Ctrl + K, then make that text into a hover over - not the entire text box, just certain word(s). 

Does Storyline 3 still have this feature? I got upgraded the other week and was expecting old hovers to work. Now the text highlights only and the layer never shows. I even had Storyline uninstalled / installed to see if there was something wrong with the software. Same result.

I can only get hover to work on the entire text box, or an image or hotspot.

I have recreated the hover in existing courses as well as tried it in a New project and it acts the same.

Any thoughts?

7 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hey Jennifer and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

I'd love to take a look at what you are describing here. Would you be able to share your .story file where this behavior was working as intended? That way I can update the file and compare as well.

The file you recently upgraded should be saved on your system with samefilename - backupSL2 as the file name.

Jennifer Sinkula

Hi Leslie and thank you for your response.

I have attached a smaller version of two courses for your review. As I mentioned, I am able to recreate this issue with a new Storyline 3 file as well were the text hovers do not work (even after a fresh install).

Example - SL2 Backup.story is in Storyline 2 where the text hover overs are working.

Example.story is in Storyline 3 and the text hovers are not working.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for sharing both of your sample files - that was really helpful to take a look at. 

I saw what you were describing, but then I double checked the update of Storyline 3 I was using, and I was still on Update 2 (Update 3 came out just a little over a week ago). I updated to the latest update, and then my sample file worked. 

I tested your file as well on this update, and that worked too. Can you use the Check for Updates on the Help tab to confirm that you're also using Update 3?

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