Love working with Storyline, but not useful for us anymore - numeric entry won't reset to BLANK

Nov 06, 2019

Hello,

Wanted to share with all of those who experience the same problem and hoping to get Storyline developers attention.

We are a company with many developers woring with Storyline 3.

We recently come to a conclusion that we can't work with this program anymore all because of the problem with numeric entries - can't be resets to blank, only a number.

We're developing math activities for children in school, and as we reached the chapters that include fractions, we cannot use Storyline because of one tiny feature that is occuring for a very very long time (found posts from 7 years ago) - numeric entry won't reset to blank. We can't use numeric entries because fractions can't have zero placed in them - it's mathematically incorrect, and it's not possible to reset the numeric entry to blank.

It's a hugh shame, and I wanted the developers to know and maybe others who experience the same problem can comment and they'll see how important it is to FIX IT ALREADY.

4 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hi Bar,

I appreciate you reaching out to share your use case in addition to your thoughts.

I'm curious if you are renaming the numeric variable so that a 0 is displaying or is it that a default value of 0, even when not displaying, causes the issue?

I want to better understand to share your insight with the development team as you mentioned.

Thanks so much!

bar gabbai

I’m renaming it. I have a button and when the user’s press it, it should reset the numeric entry to blank. It has to be blank, no zero because fractions can’t have a zero.  But there is no way to do that and in order to do math I have to use a numeric entry so I just cant use storyline anymore, not me and not anyone in the company I work for, and that’s a big shame. 

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