How to delay the next button

Jul 18, 2017

I am creating a course in storyline and want the learners to read through the information before clicking on the next button. What I want to happen is the next button appears after a few seconds later automatically so that the learners can review all the contents.(without any addional actions like clicking the box? and then active the next button?)

Please advise. Thanks!

23 Replies
Sarah Won

Hello both! Thanks for your feedback.

I tried to apply second one(since it seems much easier to adopt), but there might be something wrong. Although I set the trigger to execute when timeline ends, next button was still disabled. Could you please look into my Storyline file as attached and make a sample trigger for me?

Sarah Won

Hello eLearning Heroes.

I'm having an issue with jumping to the next slide in another e-learning as attached. I applied same triggers to all slides. For #1.1~#1.4, it worked properly however, rest of the slides didn't work well. In a preview mode, I couldn't jump to the next slide after timeline end and clicking the next button. Please help me with this.

Leslie McKerchie

You're correct JS, and thank you for the image as well as the file.

Your image and looking at your variable are why I am asking. You have triggers with a condition to Jump to Slide X when user clicks next if Continue is equal to True.

Your variable is defined with a default value of False, so when does Continue change to True? Does that make sense?

On another note - looks like Alyssa took a look at your file above as well. Did you check out her findings?

Wendy Farmer

Hi Mikel

trigger order is Queen...you are jumping to the next slide before executing the other two triggers.

  1. Put the jump to below the 'change state' triggers
  2. Change state to Disabled is looking at the Next button as the object - it should be looking at the slide so that trigger will move to the top of the trigger panel against 'slide triggers'.

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