How to "resume saved state" of the base layer.

Hi Marriane,

You're almost there. "Resume Saved State" refers to the overall slide itself upon return. Meaning, if you leave the slide and return it will remain where you left off. 

Within the slide on a layer, there's one more setting to keep the base slide layer to remain. In the Layer Properties (gear icon on the layer), under the Base Layer settings check the box for: "Pause timeline of base layer."

Now, when you *leave* the base layer to Layer One, the base layer's timeline will pause. Once you close Layer One, the base layer will resume.

That should do it.

Hello Kevin,

Yes, we've tried those settings.  But there is a bug!  The base layer's timeline does pause.  But then the audio does not resume.  I.e the audio does not play.  We are 3 instructional designers here at USF, who have all experienced the same problem.  Can you look into this?  And this happens intermittently, so it does take some retakes to replicate the problem.

And just another tidbit of info, it does work when you set the base layer to "when revisiting reset to initial state".   

Then the audio resumes where you left off.

Hey guys,

I am seeing this issue as well.Animations resume when you hid the paused layer, but audio does not.

Incidentally, this is the case for me even with the base layer set to "when revisiting reset to initial state". 

Please advise.

Thank you.

Hi Marianne,

Can you post your .STORY file here or submit it to us as a Support case so that we can take a look at it? If you submit it as a Support case, just let me know the case number so I can look into it.

Thanks! 

I don't want the slide to replay when the users view the slide again- I set "resume to saved state."  It's not working -- the timeline does and the objects on it - but my audio is playing from the beginning.  Any suggestions?

Hi Dianne,

Without seeing your file and how it's set up it's hard to say for certain what's happening. So it's only the audio that is replaying? Is it being triggered by a user action on the slide or is it set up based on the timeline? Is it the "rewind" button that is starting the slide over or something else? 

I have a trigger for it to pause on the timeline and begin again based on user action (button). It's not on the replay button but when I come back to the slide using the previous button.
It is only the audio that is playing - no timeline movement (objects are all appearing as last saved state). I ended up creating a variable for the audio - that triggers from false to true (once it's been heard) and used a trigger to pause audio when true. This worked so the audio wouldn't play - but it's an ugly fix. Question: when you use that resume saved state - that's for everything on the timeline right? Including audio? I've never experienced this before in storyline 1. When I used resume to saved state - objects and audio (entire timeline) just stayed at the end because that's the saved state.
Any way- thanks for your help.

Hi Dianne,

Yes, resume saved state should bring you back to where you left off in the timeline (either the end or somewhere else) so it seems odd that the audio is playing again. I'm glad to hear you were able to fix it - but if you'd like us to take a look at it you can share a sample .story file here with us and we'll take a look. 

Also, just an fyi when replying via email your signature is included here in the post so you're welcome to tedit the post to remove that information if you wish. 

Hi Ashley,

Thank you for reminding that I needed to remove my email signature. I have the file before I did the work around.  Let me know what you find and thanks!

Hi Dianne,

Since you're using a timeline element to trigger the audio, it seems to be getting caught up in there, I instead used the object trigger for one of the elements on your slide that has the same starting point and then all works as expected. 

I see that you placed pause timeline on this slide trigger for when object appears. This works, but now when I click the Done button - the "resume timeline starts" but the audio doesn't start.  Interesting. Again, I got it to work with variables - it's published!  Are the audio"media" not controlled by timeline conditions? It's appearing that it is a separate and not part of the timeline.  Thanks for investigating this.

Can you post your story file here still u have the problem.

Kevin! that was EXACTLY what I needed for a problem I've been having. Thank you!

Well, glad that this thread was able to help you out as well Amy :) Thanks for popping in to share.