Is There A Way To Hide Certain Point Point Slides ?

May 03, 2012

In MS Power Point, ther was the ability to make slides hidden (or hide them).   When I do a slide show, those slides will not be part of the slide show.

I have 6 slides and on each of the 6 slides, there is a trigger to take it to a corresponding slide after slide 6 which contains video.  There is one hidden slide for each of the slides (6 videos slides).   My problem is when I trigger the action my video plays.  That is perfect.  On completion, there is a trigger o the video to take me back to the calling slide.

When I  trigger an action to play a video and trigger the video slide to go back to the calling slide, the Problem is in the Previous and Next control of the preview.  It takes be back to the actual video and I would like to hide those slides from the Previous and Next controls.  

Does anyone having any suggestions to this issue of mind ??

Thank You,

G

6 Replies
Nancy Woinoski

Let me see if I can help you with this -

The way to hide slides in Storyline is to move them to a separate scene that is not connected with other slides in your story, but this is not going to work in your case because you have triggers connecting the slides in your main story to the video slides.

You can control where the user goes when clicking the next button by changing which slide SL jumps to when the user clicks the button, but you cannot control where the previous button goes - the previous button always jumps to the last slide viewed.

So right now the way you have your project set up - there is no way to stop the previous button from going back to the videos unless you disable the player Next and Previous buttons and create your own custom buttons.

By creating your own custom navigation buttons you can use Jump to triggers to control exactly where you want to user to go when they click the navigation buttons.

Jeanette Brooks

Hi Gary! The Previous button will always take the learner to whatever slide they viewed just prior to the one they're on. This isn't currently a behavior that can be customized. The Next button is customizable and will always take the learner to whatever slide is indicated in the trigger panel.

One approach that would probably work better for your situation would be this: instead of taking learners to a different slide for each of your six videos, how about placing the video on a slide layer instead? You can put a button on your slide that shows the video layer. On the video layer, you could create a trigger that closes the layer as soon as the video finishes playing (and you could also provide a button for the learner to close the video if you want, so that they don't have to watch the whole thing if they don't want to).

That way you wouldn't have to worry about hiding any slides from the menu, and the previous/next buttons would not take learners to the videos - the videos would only be viewed when learners click the button to see them. See if the attached example would work for you.

Nancy Woinoski

@Jeanette,  I was going to suggest that Gary use layers as well, but the problem I encountered with this is that if the user clicks the next button on the layer before the video layer closes,  goes to the next slide and then clicks the previous button, they are returned to the video layer instead of the base layer.

Now that I think of it, maybe to prevent this from happening, the Revisit slide properties should be set to the reset to initial state.

Jeanette Brooks

Hi Nancy! Yeah, changing the slide properties to "reset to initial state" should do it - in fact that's what I intended in that attachment but I just reopened the file and noticed that I have the 2nd and 3rd slides set that way, but somehow I missed the first. Doh. So yeah, I think resetting to initial state should give the right behavior.

Gary Wong

Thank You Jeanette & Nancy !!!

When you say layering in powerpoint, is just putting the object back or putting it in front.   Is that correct ??

Do you believe that if I selected All Slides and changed the Slide Properties "When Revisting"  to "reset to Initial state" everything will still work for me normally ???   I just tried it and it seem OK for everything.

The reason for me to do all of them, I have about 40+ powerpoint presentations that needs to be generated each week for iPad viewing for about 18 weeks.  Currently I use VBA code in MS Access to generate all of my power point slides.  

When I change the Action Button in MS PowerPoint to bring one slide forward or put the top slide back, will this action code get imported into Storyline correctly ???   It will not work for me if I had to change each of my slides manually within Storyline (too many to do by hand).

Do you know how to have on the left slide of the "normal" view to show each slide (instead of untitled slide to like slide number i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc  -   like in MS powerpoint)???

Thank You  !!!

Gary

Brian Batt

Hi Gary,

I recommend that you test Jeanette's suggestion of adjusting the Slide Properties to 'Reset to Initial State' and see if you get the results that you expect.  Keep in mind that importing PowerPoint content into Storyline is not an exact one-to-one conversion. As a result, text may look a bit different and items may not function as expected. Although most features in PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter are supported in Storyline, some are not.  For more information, see the link below:

http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=catmp4tjk9r8

Regarding your "Action Button", you'll need to test this in Storyline to see if it converts as expected.  However, you'll likely need to perform some modifications in Storyline to get it to work the way that you expect.

Regarding the view on the left slide, as stated in the post below, the Scene View will display according to how your course is branched.  If you have one slide that simply branches to the next one, it will display all in one row like in PowerPoint.  Otherwise, it will display how it does with the branching in Story View.

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/12173/72878.aspx#72878

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