How Do I Add the Slide ID to Each Slide?

Feb 24, 2015

I would like to be able to add and remove the slide ID to each slide for easy page reference/identification during the review process. I'm not using the Menu as my course has branching and custom navigation. Is there a way to add and remove the slide ID from each slide?

Thanks, - Paul

18 Replies
Philippe JEANTY

That sounds good. I just cut from your presentation and paste on the master in mine, but there are some differences: in your presentation i can do a scene preview and the slide number appear but not in mine, all i get is the text string: Slide #%slideNum%

Is there anything else i should have added or done ?

Now if i send this to a outside reviewer and they find an error on slide 387, how can i search in my presentation which is slide 387 ?

Paul DeHorn

For review, I now just display the Menu and set the number entries to appear. This labels all the menu items with the slide numbers and provides reference numbers for my SME reviewers. 

Player Properties>Menu>Menu Options>Number entries in the menu automatically (see attachment). 

For my interactive courses, the scenes are sometimes out of order and then the numbering is also out of order. But each slide still has a reference number. When this bothers me, I just re-order my scenes until the numbering on the menu is in order.

Philippe JEANTY

Oops no i had not !

But indeed neither system really is practical: adding a variable to each slide or incrementing it is too time-consuming for the value obtained. I was hoping for some intrinsic slide number assigned by SL (which i suppose there is as you can hyperlink to a slide independent of its name or position in the story) and use that identifier. Any alphanumeric string would be good as long as it is unique and immutable. So that the reviewer could say: "slide 232wh8" has a problem and i could search that ID and edit it. The alternative is to do a screenshot and scribble corrections on the screen shot :)

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