HTML5 Resuming timeline on hide layer trigger bug

Hi Luke,

Thanks for reaching out here and sharing your set up. A sample is always helpful - but do you only see this in the HTML5 output in iOS or on Chrome desktop as well? I do see something reported to our team for iOS 7 specifically. Similarly another thread where the trigger only works once in HTML5. 

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for your response. This happens on iOS and my desktop on all browsers I've tested it with (IE11, Chrome & Firefox). 

I've just read through the thread you shared and it's not quite what I'm experiencing i'm afraid.

I've attached the .story of my sample, if you wouldn't mind having a look?

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks Luke for sharing the file - I'm taking a look now and will be in touch shortly. 

Hi Luke,

Thanks again for sharing the file - that was really helpful and easy to see what your set up was and what was happening. I tested and saw the same thing when uploaded to Tempshare and viewing the HTML5 output in Chrome on my desktop (just an FYI you may want to review our supported HTML5 output options here).  

I found one other report of this to our QA team, so I've included the thread and your sample file as a part of that report, but I don't have any additional information or updates to share. Once I've received an update from our team, I'll be sure to update you here - but I can't offer a timeframe in regards to that. 

That's great, thanks for submitting it to your QA team and for getting back to me. I'll leave it with you guys and hopefully you'll find a solution soon.

Luke

Hi, is there a solution to this? This seems to be an issue for at least a year, and I can't find any resolution from Articulate team

Hi Henri,

This is still with our QA team, so I don't have any updates to share at this time, but this forum discussion has been tagged for follow up once there is information to share. 

For those stuck with a similar issue to Luke, the work around is to NEVER call "hide THIS layer" from within the layer you are trying to hide.  Instead,  open the preference cog and check "Hide slide layer when timeline finishes"   I've attached Luke's file with the adjustments so that it works in both Flash and HTML5.  Hope this helps

Didn't work for me once layer closes main time resumes without clicking resume button, even tried Pause timeline of base layer

Hi Mark,

This discussion is a bit older but I'd love to help you. Can you share a copy of your Storyline course so that we can take a look at what you've set up? 

Now that I know it is a bug in your authoring software and not my code or logic, I am re-designing the course logic.

This bug will also be documented in our files with the other bugs I have found in Storyline 2 and will avoid using variables or states to control the timeline in the future.

FYI I have been working with a client for over 6 months to resolve this issue on my end we thought the problem was a browser issue since they are US government and mandated to use IE, at least I can inform our client it is the authoring software not our design/logic or browser that is flawed. They too are a Storyline 2 user but have been trying to get us to switch to Adobe's elearning package.