Jump to slide after draw from question bank

Oct 30, 2013

Hello elearning Heroes!

Here's a question about "drawing from a bank" that I couldn't find the answer to anywhere on the site.

So I have a slide which randomly draws 5 questions from a bank. I'm not using the player (so no next or submit buttons, everything is on the slide). Each question has a feedback with a working "continue" button. And yet, when I get to the fifth question... it won't continue to the next slide, it just stops. When I click the "continue" button it hides the feedback layer and that's it... no next slide.

What am I missing here? I can't use slide triggers because I'm not using the player and the "timeline ends" or "timeline starts" conditions don't work either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

14 Replies
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Stephane,

What triggers have you added to allow the user to advance to the next slide? You could set a trigger to the continue button to hide the layer, and jump to the next slide which will either bring you to the next question slide or if you've drawn all the questions the next slide within the scene. 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Stephane,

I apologize, I'm a bit confused - I thought you said:

Stephane Muller said:

Each question has a feedback with a working "continue" button. And yet, when I get to the fifth question... it won't continue to the next slide, it just stops. When I click the "continue" button it hides the feedback layer and that's it... no next slide.


What behavior are you looking for? If you're able to share your .story file here with us it may help me have a better understanding of what you'd like to set up. If you'd prefer to share it privately, you can also share it here. 

Stephane Muller

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for your input, but yes I did a preview of the entire project (several times).

Hi Ashley,

Unfortunately I can't share the file, there is some sensitive information on it. I know it's not easy to understand that way so here is a screenshot of the part of the story view that I'm talking about.

It won't jump from 2.1 to 2.2 at the end of the quiz. And bear in mind that I'm not using the player (so no previous or next buttons, just the buttons that are on the slides). The trigger on the "draw" slide is "jump to the next line when the timeline starts". I tried when the timeline ends but it won't work either.

The "continue" button on each feedback layer is configured that way:

Am I missing something?

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Stephane,

Thanks for sharing the images here. It looks to be set up correctly, and I had set my test file last week up as you've described and wasn't able to replicate the behavior. 

The only other thoughts are there may be something within the file itself, you may want to try importing it into a new Storyline file to see if there is some corruption within the file, additionally you may want to conduct a repair of your Storyline software .

If you're able to remove some of the sensitive content, our Support team can can review it privately and check to see if there is anything else to change within the triggers. 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Content Dev, 

Stephane didn't submit a Support case, so I don't have any further information to share - when I tested it, I wasn't able to replicate the problem. Did you already try the suggestions I shared with Stephane to try importing it into a new Storyline file to see if there is some corruption within the file, additionally you may want to conduct a repair of your Storyline software . If neither of those work for you and you're able to share your .story file here with us we'll be happy to take a look? Also, you can share your .story file with us privately here. 

Leslie McKerchie

Hey Anastasia,

Thanks for reaching out. 

Do you have a Result Slide after your Question Bank? The Submit button on your question slides has a built-in trigger to jump to the next slide, which I assume would be your Result Slide when the quiz is complete. 

You could then have a jump to a specific slide in a different scene if needed from your Result Slide.

Feel free to share your .story file if we need to take a look.

Modassar Warsi

I think, I have discovered an answer to this problem! It might just be a work around but so be it.

It has already been stated that a submit trigger has an in-built trigger to jump to the next slide.

So, if you add another trigger to the Submit button to jump to a Result slide, it will be the next to the submit quiz trigger.

So, just move up this second trigger and it will work.

However, I propose that you must increment a variable on each slide and as soon as the value of the variable equals the maximum number of questions to be drawn, your trigger must identify it to be the last drawn question from the question bank. Add this additional condition in the second trigger that you are going to add.

Hopefully, I will post a sample with dummy data.

Kathleen Czop

Hello Anastasia,

Is there a way to retrieve these triggers? I'm a newbie and am taking an asynchronous course to learn 360. I'm creating an assessment. It has two question banks and draws established for each bank. I have also created a results slide. In a preview, the quiz goes perfectly but it will not go the results slide. I think I know why but want to know if there is a fix for it or if I'm doomed, lol.

The course instructor (Devlin Peck) always removes the player at the beginning of a project (I guess to be able to customize things?) In any case, he usually also removes the triggers that automatically go with it. I did that but don't think I was supposed to. When I click once on a slide to highlight and try to add a trigger to make it go to the results page, the triggers are greyed out, I can't add one. Is there any way to fix my earlier mistake?  

I've attached a screen shot and the file. I'd so appreciate any advice, thank you!

Jose Tansengco

Hi Kathleen, 

I'll be happy to jump in! 

Your 'Draw from question bank' slides were missing the triggers shown here which prevented the learners from navigating to the next slide/scene after completing the question draws: 

If you need to restore the default settings for a question bank slide, you can just insert a new 'Draw from question bank' slide and delete the old one.