If you're mad about variables, please read this!

Aug 06, 2020

Elisabeth Skoro
By Elisabeth Skoro

Dear Wonderful People,

I am trying to create a form that helps users to narrow down which adoption program is right for them. My slides ask a series of questions. As users work through the questions, variable values change which, in some cases, determine where the user is sent next.   

Right now, I'm just working *on the first scene only* and trying to get the variable values to do what they're supposed to.  I have managed for some, but there are some problems I'm just not sure what to do with. These are:

a) When branched from the "single" page, "Number of people in Household" includes something that says, "%_player.#ofPeople". How do I get rid of that?

b)$_value_of_Posessions isn't equalling the typed value

c) Networth is supposed to set itself equal to $_value_of_Posessions but that isn't happening (since $_Value_of_Posessions isn't working)

d) I can't seem to preview it because the program starts churning freezing up. 

I'm sure "D" has something to do with how many variables I have in there.

Please ignore cosmetic mistakes (spelling, etc.). I'm just not working on those right now.

At the risk of publicly displaying what a Storyline artist I'm not, I'm looking for

a) Answers to my questions

b) Suggestions for how to simplify this.

Finally, I have added a variable reference guide. You may not need it. This is just for due measure.

Thank you!

Liz

 

4 Replies
Dave Cox
over 3 years ago08/06/20 at 10:24 pm (UTC)

Hi Liz,

Well, you seem to have several things going on with this.

  1. You have some corruption in in your project. I think the corruption was caused by your variable names.
  2. You have some strange variable names. Be careful not to start a variable name with a special character like a # or a $. Those characters have special meanings internally to Storyline. 
  3. I Couldn't get your original project to run, but I was able to import your slides into a new project. You may have re-connect some triggers. 

I hope that helps you get going again.

Dave

Elisabeth Skoro
over 3 years ago08/06/20 at 10:26 pm (UTC)

Thanks, Dave!

I thought the characters in the variable names might have been messing
things up. I fixed those hoping it would fix the overall problem. It
seems to have helped but, yes, the program continues to lock up. I will
try to export my slides to a new project and see if that works. Thank you!
Liz

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