How to trigger an exit animation?

I tried this approach which works the first time the shape on the base layer is clicked, but not subsequent times the shape is clicked:

The duration of the entrance and exit animations is .75 seconds each for the grouped scrolling panel.  The timeline for the group is 2 seconds (just barely longer that the total animation time)

I created these triggers:

• Pause timeline on this layer when the timeline reaches 1 second
• Hide this layer when the timeline ends
• Resume timeline on this layer when the user clicks

It's doing exactly what I want it to do, except it only works the first time that shape on on the base layer is clicked.  Why?  Is there a way to reset the base layer each time it is returned to?

Thank you,

John

Hi John, pause your timeline on your layer somewhere near but not at the end.  Then instead of hide layer on your trigger, tell it to play the layer.  Check the cog icon of the Slide Layer properties and check the box that says hide slide layer on completion.  That should allow it play your exit animation.  Good luck.

Make sure reset to initial state is selected

Thanks, Richard,  I'll give that a try.

The reason I was doing all this was to get a shape to perform as a marker.  Is there a way to create a marker using a shape instead of one of the marker icons?

I tried your suggestion, Richard, but the result is the same.  Any other suggestions?

Got it to work!

I added a trigger to the red X after the resume timeline trigger:  Jump to n.n (this slide) when the timeline ends.  This has the effect of resetting the slide to its initial state.

Thanks for your help, Richard!

There are quite a few ways to tackle a marker, but here's a couple..

The second one needs an exit animation on the hold state's caption... oops.  

make it .25 sec shrink

Thanks Richard.  Good technique!

Thank you both for your contributions here! Saved the day! :)

Hi Alexandra and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!

Glad that this post was able to assist you here and thanks for popping in :)

Hi (to whomever might be reading this) - I can see this is a fairly old post but the title is exactly what I need to do so I thought I'd add my question and hope for the best.  (I did leave post this same question on another post but realized after I did it that I used an old email address for myself, so I'm afraid I won't be notified.) I am using Storyline 360.

I am simply trying to delay an exit animation for an object. I want the object to display from the beginning of the slide and then a few seconds later to shrink and exit. I would like to trigger the exit animation on either a cue point or a time on the timeline.

How do I add a trigger to a simple (non-motion path) animation?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks very much.

Stuart Gilbert

Hi Stuart 

is this what you are after?