Interactive menu + progession

I'm not sure I fully grasp what you're trying to do here but it sounds as if what you are building would be best done in the Master Slides. Can you share any screenshots in relation to your project?

When the user clicks on the menu button, this slide appears (lightbox slide) so he can click on a chapter and see its contents (layers).

But I also want the user to keep track of his progression. If he clicks on the menu button while doing unit two in chapter 1, I want the menu to appear like this.

This way, he can see what's done, what's ongoing and what's left to do. He could choose to go back to unit 2 but he can also skip to chapter 3 if he prefers. So every item must remain linked and accessible.

Hey Mylene,

Thanks for sharing the images. I can definitely visualize it better now.

Making the menu work the way you have shown here is possible and probably best done on one of the master slides. I'd suggest you build it on a slide layer on either the main master slide or one of the masters layouts. If you put it on the main master slide (first slide in the order) it will be on every slide in your course that uses that set. But you may want to put it on one of the layouts in case you want some slides to not have access to the menu for some reason. Here are a few screen captures of an animated retractable menu I built that hides off screen.

The button at the top triggers it to grow out from the side and then the bottom button closes it to retract back off the screen.

From what you've described I'm imagining that you're going to also want this menu to remember  and reflect what the user has already visited? And is that something you want even if they exit and return to the course later? Or is it not that complicated?

Sorry for not answering before, I was away for a while. I was able to build my menu like you showed on a master slide.

But, as you said, I do want my menu to remember  and reflect what the user has already visited so he can navigate through what is left to do. And yes, I do want it to remember even if the user exits the course and return later. Is that possible?

Yes! Storyline's built in menu remembers where you left off if you exit a published course that you go partially through and go back into it. So when it takes you back to that position you left off at, you can set a variable to be equal to a number in the course as soon as that screens timeline starts. That value can then be used to tell your menu to indicate what has and hasn't been visited. That is so long as your course is linear.

Does that make sense?

Yes, I'll just have to play a bit around with variables to figure it out! Thanks for the help, I'll work on it.

No problem. What you would have to do, if your course is linear, is put a trigger on each slide in the progression of your course that sets the variable (used to adjust the custom menu) to be equal to 1 greater that the slide before it.

Example: slide 1 has a trigger that sets a variable equal to 1. Slide 2 has another trigger that sets the same variable equal to 2.... and so on....

Then you just need a slew of triggers in the beginning of the course that say....

If variable = 1, set menu to (display that you have finished up to section 1). If variable = 2, set menu to (display that you have finished up to section 2).... and so on....

Oh! That is the part I was not doing right!! Thanks! I've only been working with A360 for 4 months or so... Still have a lot to learn!

I have yet to work with it really (only tried the demo). Am still using SL2. But the same logic applies. =)