Issues with using Data Entry input widget

Mar 28, 2017

I have a course that occasionally asks the student to enter some text in a Data Entry input box.  Only when the correct data is entered does the lesson move on.   There are two issues.

1) If they make a mistake when entering the data and hit <enter>, sometimes they can't fix the mistake.  The screen is just locked up.

2) If they have previously been on this screen and completed the data entry, then either hit "Previous" or left the training and started over, the box will load the previous data and they can't move forward (like it expects them to enter it again, but they can't).

I think that the issue may be tied to the concept of "When Revisiting:"  The system default is "Automatically Decide".  If this is the issue, what does "automatically decide" mean?   Shouldn't this be "Revert to original state"?

8 Replies
Susi B

Hi Geoff,

could you share your file with us or just the slide with a following slide so we can see the interaction/trigger? Is this slide a normal or a quiz slide?

We always use "revert to original state" in our courses or use the saved state if we want it to stay the way it has been left. The automatic decissions are a mystery to me. Sometimes it works like I want it to, sometimes not.

Daneen Pope

Hi Susi.  I would be happy to share it.  How do I do that?   I don't have the published files on a publicly accessible website.   I've zipped the folder and attached the zip file.  Maybe that will work.  If you have a better suggestion, let me know.

I think the default should be "revert to original state".   Is that something I'll have to do manually in every course I build, or can I change the default globally?

Susi B

Hey Geoff,

unfortunately I can´t look into your story file because it´s 360 and I only own SL2. :( But I took a look at your output folder. I could recreate the problem, but could solve it when deleting the "s" from "jones" and hit enter and after this incorrect entry add the "s" again and it was correct again and I could advance. I don´t know what trigger you use and what your slide/layer is set to, but maybe it can besolved when you adjust your slide/layer settings to "initial state" or set the variable from the text entry back to nothing, so they have to enter "jones" again.

Maybe this helps already. :)

Susi

Daneen Pope

Thanks Susi.   Yes, I discovered the same work around, but obvioulsy I can't try to explain that to my students.  :-)  

Yes, I agree.  I think that changing the properties so that the slide reverts to original state is the solution.   

So what I need to know now is, "how can mass edit/change all slide to this new property/condition"?

And, how do I change my SL configuration default for new projects in the future?

Susi B

You can only mass edit this in your story view (or what it´s called in english) by selecting all slides by clicking or Strg+A (see attachment). 

Sadly you can´t change the layers all at once. Every single layer on a slide has its own setting for this and it´s set to "automatically decide" when you create a new one. And as far as I know there is no option to change the default "automatically decide" to an other setting.

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