Issue with triggers not working
Jun 22, 2018
I'm sure this is user error, and I need your help to find out why this is happening. I thought I set up the triggers correctly to lock out the layer audio from playing while the initial audio plays, but it's not working. The states of all the elements are all set to disabled, and I placed a trigger to change the state of the first tab to normal when the media stops (the other tabs are triggered to normal when the previous tab is visited), but when the slide opens you can still click on each tab and the audio for the tab plays while the opening audio is still going. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any assistance would be welcome; deadline is Sunday. Using the Serenity template.
10 Replies
Thank you, Tom!
FYI - using the groups for the buttons is the way the Serenity template is
set up, so I didn't do that.
I set the elements in the first tab group to disabled to start and tried to place a trigger on those elements to change to normal when the media completes, but that didn't work.
I'm not sure what you mean by placing a hotspot over the buttons; I can't seem to find the right trigger for that.
Shouldn't all the items within the group, once it's been clicked on, automatically revert to their visited states?
Yeah, the templates are set up a certain way to make it easy to see what's there. Most people wouldn't think of editing the states when they start.
Re hotspot: drop a hotspot on top of the buttons. Insert>hotspot. On the timeline, set it to disappear when the audio ends.
Grouped objects can have a trigger, but since it's a group of individual objects they won't make all of the objects visited since you're really not visiting the object you're just adding a trigger to the group.
Kinda what I thought, but wanted to be sure before spending more time.
Thanks again, Tom.
I take that back on the grouped objects. You shouldn't have to add triggers to change the sate if the objects have visited states.
Well, they do.
Since all of the objects get changed to visited, you could just have a trigger change based on just one of them. That will keep the trigger cleaner.
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.