Jumping to a Specific Slide in a course via the URL

Hi Kimberly,

Matthew is pretty active in the forums, so hopefully he'll be able to reach back out in this discussion here. You are certainly welcome to reach out to him directly via the Contact Me option on the user profile if you do not hear back soon.

Hi Ren,

I did reach out to Matthew but he said unfortunately he is covered up with paid work and doesn't have time to investigate.  Is there anyone else I could reach out to?

Thank you.

Hello Kimberly,

I have attached an example Storyline 360 project for you to take a look at.

Here are some example links for both the Classic Player and Modern Player outputs.

Classic Player

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=1&slide=1

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=1&slide=2

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=2&slide=1

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=2&slide=2

Modern Player

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/modern/story.html?scene=1&slide=1

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/modern/story.html?scene=1&slide=2

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/modern/story.html?scene=2&slide=1

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/modern/story.html?scene=2&slide=2

Hi Russell,

Thank you so much for the information.

Background: My current project is to create Help for our Personal Health Record website where our members can view and record their health information.

Each webpage has a Help that would link to a page in Storyline 360. I will need to pass the URLs to our web team to update their Master title definitions.

I have a couple of questions.

I see you entered the Java and slide variables all on the scene 1 slide. Can I enter it on the Slide Master or would I need to just add it to my slide 1.1

Also, do I need to add any additional HTML code similar to the tutorial?

AGAIN a BIG THANK YOU! I really appreciate all your assistance!

In my example, I setup the project to Never Resume. This way, slide 1.1 will always be the first slide viewed.

There was no need to modify the Redirect code as the url variables seem to carry over (with this version of Storyline 360) when redirecting between flash/html5.

Here is your project updated and example links.

Link to story.html

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/story.html?slide=7

Link to launcher.html

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/launcher.html?slide=7

Hi Russell,

I have been reviewing both 360 projects. I just can't seem to wrap my head around them. Apologies up front. 

1. What is the difference between the first one and the second one.

Classic Player

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=1&slide=1

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=1&slide=2 

and the second one:

Link to story.html

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/story.html?slide=7

Link to launcher.html

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/launcher.html?slide=7

2. Do I need to set up the triggers like the one in PHR_Help_Members_rk.story or the way they are in your 360getparameters?

3. How do I create the slide links  

Do i just create these links manually like the example you gave for 360 get parameters

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/get_parameters/classic/story.html?scene=1&slide=1

Or just use the link you provided to story.html. Are these links all that is needed for each slide to link to a different web page? or How do I create the links so each slide will link to a different web page?

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/story.html?slide=7

Link to launcher.html

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/launcher.html?slide=7

Again I apologize for all the questions and thank you for all your help!

Kimberly

1. With my project, I have the javascript and triggers on slide 1.1. The project is also configured to 'Never Resume'. This way slide 1.1 will always be seen first. Also in this project, I used 2 variables. Scene and Slide.

I took a look at your project, your triggers are on the master slide. And is using just one variable called JumpToSlide. I modified the Javascript trigger. It reads the slide number from the link and then updates the JumpToSlide variable.

2. No you do not need to setup the triggers like I did in my 360GetParameters.

3. The links are what you create manually. The link is to your course followed by ?slide=number

I suggest linking to your story.html file but you can also link to the launcher.html instead. That's up to you.

If you want to link directly to your slide 3.6, from looking at your triggers on the master slide, you would set the slide variable to 9. So your link would look similar to:

http://www.knowledgeconstruction.com/kim/story.html?slide=9

 

 You are my HERO! Thank you so much for holding my hand through this process!

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week!

Sincerely,

Kimberly