Layers, Radio Buttons and triggers

Jul 08, 2013

Hey Guys, 

Im fairly new with Articulate Storyline and have encountered a speedbump I cant go through.

Im designing the "demo" version of a tool used by my company with storyline, there is a section of the tool that displays the same data but formatted in different presentations, this section has parameters that can be modified in order to select the presentation you want.

One of this parameters is a Radio Button and the other one is a "Go" button.

My problem is that when I add Radio Buttons to my demo version and use them as a variable with a hotspot on the "GO" button I am able to change the state of a object (A .png file that has the different formats) from hidden to normal and it works great, issue is that the object doesn't go back to the "hiding" state when I select another Radio Button, meaning that I can only select them once  (not go from option A to option B and then again to option A) and since I have about 6 or 7 Radio Buttons I can't assign a trigger to change the state because its not always the same object being displayed. 

I found the temporary solution to use "Hovered over" but the data displays only when I am hovering over the "GO" button.

Is there a way that without adding a new "clear" button (since it will lose the similarity from the real tool and the demo) after they CLICK on the "GO" button if the select a new parameter the previous one goes back to the hidding state? I thought about using layers but it will complicate the layer schematic I already have.

Blessings for the ideas!

John

2 Replies
Josh Uhlig

Hi John,

I'm not able to accurately visualize what you are trying to accomplish by what you have posted.  Are you able to share your presentation? 

If you are simply trying to have a certain image display as the result of clicking the "GO" button, you might consider having a single object for all radio buttons.  Just have a different state for each image rather than a normal and hidden state an several different objects.  In other words, each state is a new image, and you change the state to the appropriate image when the "GO" button is pressed.

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