Lock slide order?

Hi Kate,

If you're looking for a way to lock it while editing, I can't think of what feature/element you may be referring to. There isn't a way to stop, you or another author from moving them around while editing, although you can lock items on an individual slide. Maybe that's the part you're thinking of? Here is additional information on how to work within Story view. 

Thanks, Ashley. I'm familiar with locking items on a slide. I know I wanted a slide order lock feature back in the beginning, so I guess I conflated that intense desire to be able to stop the slides from jumping around at the slightest disturbance with something that actually existed.

It might be useful in future iterations to add a lock next to each slide in story view to prevent slides from being rearranged accidentally. Getting stuff all out of order accidentally is certainly more likely to happen to me than messing up a timeline by deleting or moving something, and we've got locks there. The people I've worked with using this program have voiced similar concerns, so I know it isn't just me. Just a suggestion.

Hi Kate,

I can understand and see the need for this, so thanks for sharing that scenario here. Have you already submitted this as a feature request? This goes to our product development team and it's the best way to ensure that your ideas are shared with the people necessary. :-) 

Done.

Please add a slide order lock feature in story view. I am tired of my slides migrating and messing things up that are branched. Plus I have no way of knowing whether things get delivered to my colleagues who might need to work on things further in the correct order. 

Hi Wendy and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

You can lock items on a slide, but it sounds like you would like to lock the slide order in the Slide View.

You make a great use-case and I'm submitting a feature request on your behalf.

I also have trouble with slides moving! If I click on a slide in story view for slightly too long (0.001 of a second!) it changes the "Jump to [my chosen slide]" to whatever it wants. This means I have to spend so long checking all these special branching slides before I export every time. Please add this feature! It would save so much time and frustration. Thank you :)

Hi Leanne! That definitely shouldn't happen, so I'm glad you reached out!

What version of Storyline are you using? Could you share a quick screen recording of what happens when you click a slide for slightly too long? I'd like to get a better idea of what you're seeing on your side. Thanks!

Hi Carmel,

While there isn't a feature to lock the slides in Story View, I appreciate you sharing your need for that! 

Definitely adding my voice to the request for a slide locking feature. I'll frequently stumble upon a slide that is obviously out of order and think "How did you get there. Wait, where do you even go?" or I'll be previewing and suddenly there's something obviously missing, but I have no idea where it went.

Joining the discussion to say that I would also find this very useful. I've had a couple of projects recently where I've had to do a lot of unpicking to get slides back into the correct order with no idea how/why they moved in the first place.

Slides can be moved in order if your mouse twitches and moves even a slight bit while you are selecting a slide in story view.

The solution is not to use "next" and "previous" in jump triggers, but jump to a slide name.  They cannot override the triggers and get out of order.

Coming here this year to echo the need for a lock slide order feature.

Yeah, I can use jump to slide name, but it can still move out of order, with the smallest mouse bump.  I've now lost over an hour of time re-ordering slides that I meticulously placed in a specific order. A lock slide order feature would be SO HELPFUL.

Hi Lindsey!

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us. I have added your voice to this feature request! 

If the request makes it onto our feature roadmap, we’ll make sure to update everyone in this conversation thread!

Have a great start to 2023!