Jumping positions to Cue point

Hi, Laura -- thanks for reaching out! As it looks like your question is directed to Dennis Hall, I wanted to note that since some time has passed since his reply on this thread, it's possible he may no longer be subscribed. If you'd like to reach out to him directly, please use the 'Contact Me' link on his profile page. 

I'm hoping anyone on this thread might respond. 

I believe I need the cue functionality that Tim is looking for, but perhaps my situation can use a work-around.  I have a slide with lots of nested layers, so that users can jump around within the presentation.  What I am trying to do:  Once a user reaches a layer "Base Info", an audio clip plays explaining the details of what the subsections hold.  Then the user clicks a subsection, jumps to another layer, and get another audio clip.  I have a back button to get to the base info page, but then the audio plays again.  Is there a way to only have it play once?  Using the cue point would handle this easily, but since that's not an option, how do I set a certain button to NOT play the audio in the slide, in this case, the back buttons for each sub-section???

Hi Seth, 

Do you have a sample file you could share with us to take a look at? It's typically easier (at least for me) to offer some thoughts if I can see what you've got set up and play around with it! 

Hello Seth,

I also use this work around that you're proposing.

An easy way to only play the audio once is to create a T/F variable for each audio file, default value of "False". When the audio is played the first time change the value of the variable for that audio file to "True".

Now that you have your variables set up, all you need to do is add a check when playing your audio file, something like play audio at the beginning of the timeline IF variable is equal to "False".

It's a little bit of extra work, but it works well.

Instead of having the audio automatically play in the layer; you can assign a "Play Media" trigger on timeline starts.  Then create a variable that you can use to track if the audio has played once. (set the variable to true on timeline start in the Base Info layer)

Add a condition to the Play Media trigger so that the audio only plays when the variable is set to 'false'.

Make sure that the Adjust Variable trigger is the last trigger so that it is assigned 'after' the audio plays for the first time.

See the attached example on how you could go about achieving this.

Both solutions are EXACTLY what I was looking for.  I am still relatively new to Storyline, but I am finding that half the time, the issue is just how you approach the problem, that determines finding a good solution.  Thank you Brian and Chad for your input.  I think either solution will get me exactly where I need to be!!

Please, please, plaease add this jump to cue point functionality! Without it the use of Storyline is often very annoying!

Thanks,

G

Thanks Giampaolo for reaching out here, and it's not yet a feature of Storyline. You can also share your thoughts on this as a feature by submitting here directly to our Product Development team. 

Hi, first time posting here on the forum, but I'm just wondering if there has been any movement towards adding this "jump to cue point" functionality in Storyline 2.  In my role, we're getting more into producing video-based content and because of that, I'm finding that this functionality would be extremely valuable in some of these projects.  Thanks to the community for all the great info. and advice!

Hi Lance,

Thanks for reaching out here! There isn't  a trigger for "jump to cue point" yet, but as you can see it's a popular topic, so you may also want to look at submitting an official feature request here.

Looking forward to seeing you around the community more! 

Ok this may be a repeat question but need help! I am trying to add a cue point from audio when a user clicks an icon. The end results is that I wish for the audio to play only when the user clicks a praticular icon. How can I accomplish this?

Tish - one way would be to put each audio on its own layer and then add a trigger on each icon which shows the respective layer (i.e.: plays the audio) when clicked. When the audio finishes, the layer should be set to automatically close.

Thank you for the quick response.  There should be an easier way to sync audio, with object and to only play the audio when the user clicks the icon, instead of creating so many layers.  But I guess if that is the only solution I got to do it.

Tish - well, another way (without adding layers) would be to add a trigger on the base layer to each icon which plays the specified audio file when the icon is selected. i.e: Play media - audio from file. I should have suggested this solution first!

This has suddenly become a much needed feature for me, especially for video playback, ideally I'd like the user to be able to view the captions in their entirety , with each line used as a jump-to point within the video, very handy if you've got a process video and need to jump to a certain step (very similar to the functionality youtube has where people leave links in the description to jump to a different timestamp)

Hey Darren - Thanks for sharing what you'd like to see and a good use-case. I'm going to get this feature submitted on your behalf.

I've added a request as well as apparently this feature is still not implemented in Storyline. 

Thanks Harold! We are tracking this particular feature due to the number of requests and I've added your submission to the report. 

I wanted to share an article on how we manage feature requests as well.

Leslie,

Thank you for adding my submission, really looking forward to the moment when Articulate will implement this feature. Hopefully on a short notice ;)

Harold - don't hold your breath. I submitted a 'feature request' for this function several years ago. Nothing.

Tim, I know, therefore I've indeed submitted the request and de post. 
Hopefully this helps. At least they've got a request more on this feature. ;)

This thread started 5 years ago and they still haven't implemented this much requested feature. Many other threads looking for the same thing. Poor show.

I just got 360.  I'd love to hear that "Jump to Cue Point", or a similar feature was added to this newest version.  I've looked for it, but haven't found it yet.  Can anyone tell me if this is now available, and where I can find it?