How to use Operators and varibles in Articulate storyline

Nov 19, 2017

Hi everyone, I am a beginner for articulate storyline 360, I need to know in detail about the operators, variables and trigger and there application. Even though I am familiar with the tools, I need to master concept wise. 

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Veronica Budnikas

Hi Umashankar,

Welcome to e-learning heroes! You are in the right place to learn all about Storyline.

Here are a few starting points:

- If you are a 360 subscriber, you should take advantage of Articulate Live. These are live training webinars on many aspects of the 360 suite of products, including many on Storyline. https://360.articulate.com/live 

- Try these tutorials on working with triggers: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-work-with-triggers 

- Try these tutorials on variables: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-work-with-variables 

and most of all, practise, practise, practise! A great way to learn and improve your skills is by participating in the weekly challenges: https://community.articulate.com/hubs/e-learning-challenges 

And if you get stuck on anything, you can post questions here, there will always be someone happy to help out.

Hope this helps!

 

 

Walt Hamilton

Think of your project like telling a story, perhaps you are familiar with plays. Think of a play where the audience gets to vote on what happens at certain points.

The objects you put on the slide are the actors that come onto the stage. (Some people even refer to the visible part of your slide as a stage.) 

The triggers are the script that the actors read - "When this happens on the stage, you do this"  Example - If a girl says "I love you", answer "I know" if she is your sister, and answer "I love you, too" if she is not your sister. "If she is your sister" and "if she is not your sister" are conditions in the triggers. "Is" is the == (equal) operator, and "is not" is the != (not equal) operator. Operators perform comparisons on objects, states, and values.

When the play pauses during the first act to ask the audience to vote on a future course of action - "Will Leonore save her husband before she is discovered to be a female?", the result of the vote is recorded. Then during the third act, the actors look at the paper recording the vote, and they know which ending to perform. The paper that carries the result of the vote from the first act to the third is a variable.

The script tells the actors, "Read the paper. If the vote is that she is not discovered, perform the original ending." In this case, "is" is an operator. (The == operator.) Of course, as you know, operators are also used to perform mathematical calculations.

 

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