Indicating the Next button in Storyline Player is available

I don't think you've missed anything; and that's a great idea. You should send a feature request.

Just checking with the Articulate team whether this is something considered for Storyline 360? - Player Next button changing colour once active i.e. when the timeline completes

Good news, Ruth! This is a feature in Storyline 360. If you select Restricted Navigation, mark the corresponding box to Restrict Next/Previous buttons.

With that setting, the next button will be disabled for the duration of the timeline. When the timeline completes, it'll switch to normal (no triggers needed!). 

I hope that helps! 😁

Thanks, yes, that's what I was looking for. I prefer navigation to be very free but that's not what the clients want.

You're welcome, Ruth! Happy I could help. 😁

Hello Alyssa-

Follow up question for you.  Is there any way to change the color of the next button without disabling it?  We have some history here where instead of using the built in next buttons with the disabled/enabled feature you describe (which would be oh so easy), we have instead custom-built next buttons into our courses that display a yellow box when it's time to move on.  I'd like to eliminate this whole button building business (which is both redundant and space-taking), but still use the yellow boxes that our learners are accustomed to seeing.  I don't want to introduce too many changes to our process at once...

Thanks!

Hi Matt, 

The built-in button can have it's overall color changed if you're using the Classic Player (look at Colors and Effects) - but that won't allow for you to indicate when the learner should move on. The disabled state of the button is the only other option to show a "greyed out" button. Another option would be to hide the button completely until a certain point in the slide that you show it to the learner to navigate forward.