How Do You Change the text "Topic 1" on a Storyline Template?

Hi Scott

check the states tab for the object

Thanks for the reply Wendy.

I checked the states tab, but it doesn't give me any options.  The "Edit States" is grayed out (see attached). And when I enabled it by clicking on the circle, the only options were "Normal" and "Disable." 

Hello Scott,

Can you share which template you are using?

Yes.

Storyline 2

Sorry. Template... Let me get that for you.

Do you have the template file you can attach here?

I have the name. It's called: progress

Hello Scott!

These text boxes for the Topic 1, 2 and 3 are found on the layers in the slide. Menu1 Submenu, Menu2 Submenu, etc. You can edit them from there.

Let us know if you need anything further.

Thanks.

The next issue we are having is disappearing text.

We changed all states to "Normal."

The red circle "What is Elder Abuse" clicks through perfectly.

But in the second circle - the orange circle, "Menu Topic" - the topic "Who 2" disappears after we click on it.

Would you be able to tell why this happens and how to fix it?

Thanks

Scott Schudy
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Hello Scott,

Do you have a file you could share here? You would need ot attach it to the post using the add attachment button.

Hi.

Attached is the Storyline 2 file we've been working with.

Is this the file you were needing?

Thanks,
Scott

Reply to How Do You Change the text "Topic 1" on a Storyline Template?

Emily Burnett replied:

Hello Scott,
Do you have a file you could share here? You would need ot attach it to the post using the add attachment button.

Hello Scott,

If you attache the file through email reply, it will not show up here. you will need to click on the title of the post and use the add attachment button.

Hi Emily,

Sorry about that.  Here are the 3 attachments.

The screenshots illustrate the problem. 

Thanks,

Scott

Hello Scott,

Can you share the .story file so we can look at the set up?

Hey Emily,

Thanks for all your help. Here is the file.  (And apologies for the photo. It's the only one of me on the cell phone at the moment.)

Thanks,

Scott

Hello Scott,

Thank for sharing the file. I did notice that the 3rd text box in the red what is elder abuse was not there, so there was nothing linking to slide 5.3. Once this was added in, I was able to get the yellow circle to work as designed and show all 3 topics. However, I do not see anything missing when clicking through the topics under the yellow button's layers. Can you check the attached file and see if you are still seeing the issue?

Hi Emily,

Thanks for the review.  This may be the issue:  When I keep the topics on the yellow circle as "Topic 1", "Topic 2", "Topic 3", it works fine. But when I change the "topics" on the yellow circle to anything, such as "What1?" and "Who1?", the topics disappear when I click through in the Preview.  Not sure why.

Thanks again,

Scott

Hello Scott,

I did take another look at the file. I was able to change the text in the layer and the items did show up without issue.  If you do see this happen again, you can check the states of the text box to make sure the normal/hover/disabled state did not change. 

Thanks Emily.

Actually, yes, I did change the states to "normal" instead of "disabled" to take the "locks" away form each circle (but not subtopic.)  Do the circle locks have to remain if the subtopic locks are there?

Thanks again,

Scott

Hi Scott,

When you change the text within the text boxes from Topic 1 to Who 1, you will want to check the state of that text box, to make sure the text is still showing white, and to make sure it is positioned correctly to show up correctly when the trigger changes it to Normal. The state of the Circle on the base slide should not affect the items on the sub topic layers.

Hi Emily,

I think I have discovered an issue:  the attached shows no text in the boxes (red box).  Where did the text go?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,

If the text is missing from the states, this would be why it would not show when you have the items set to be in the Normal state. You will need to add the White text into those states. If you see this issue appear again, you may want to try and import this file into a new file.

Thanks Emily.

Out of curiosity, what would importing the file into a new file do?  How would that fix the issue?

Thanks again,

Scott

Hello Scott,

Importing into a new file is one of the steps we recommend if your current file is acting oddly. It will create a new file, in case there was some corruption in the previous one. 

For this file, you will still need to update the states, but if you see the issue again, you could try the import option.