How to show a variable as a %

Jan 11, 2016

Hi,

I have created a personality questionnaire with 4 types.

There are 80 statements (created using multi choose) and users select the statements they agree with.
I have created a variable for each type of personality.
I add 1 point to the variable if the user selects the certain statement that relates to the personality type.
On the results slide I can see the total number of statements selected for each type. It looks like this %Type1% and this displays the number.

My question is this. Instead of showing the result as a number, I would like to show the result as a %. In excel it would look something like this =%Type1%/80 and they change the cell type to a percentage. Lets say %Type1% is 20 they then it would show 25%.

Is there a way of doing this in Storyline either by using the tools available or by using JavaScript?

Thanks in advanced.

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Tracy Parish
Hero

over 8 years ago01/11/16 at 1:47 pm (UTC)

Hi Paul:

As long as your %Tyep1% is a number variable you can do various math operations directly with triggers. These options do not appear if the variable is a TEXT variable. (see the attached image example)

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over 8 years ago01/11/16 at 2:18 pm (UTC)

Thanks Tracy,

When I do this the result displays 0.04, so its working but still displaying as a number not a %. Do you know how I would convert this?

Thanks
Paul

Tracy Parish
Hero

over 8 years ago01/11/16 at 2:33 pm (UTC)

So if you added another trigger after the first (X/80) that next calculates X multiplied by 100 you will get the 4%.

You will then just have to diplay the variable as %variablename%%. The second % should show up as text.

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over 8 years ago01/11/16 at 2:36 pm (UTC)

Got it, thanks Tracy.

How to show a variable as a %

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