Menu doesn't respond in player when having single slide in scene.

May 28, 2014

Hi forum!

Does anyone recognize this issue:

In my project I have a scene with a single
slide in it.

The player's menu doesn't respond in preview

mode when trying to navigate to it.

Do I have to have at least two slides in a scene
for the navigation in the menu to work properly
or is there any other hick-up that I have missed?

As always I look forward to take part of all the
knowledge out there.

All the best!

/Patrik

5 Replies
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Patrik,

I'm not able to replicate any unusual behavior with a scene with just one slide - I can click on it within the menu and am brought there, and then can continue to navigate to other slides. How have you set up your navigation within the menu:

  • Free: This allows learners to click on the titles in the course's menu to navigate to any part of the course at any time. They can view whatever slides they wish, in any order.
  • Restricted: This means learners can view the current slide and any slide they've previously viewed, but they can't use the menu to jump ahead or skip over slides.
  • Locked: This means learners can only view the slides in the order you've designed. They can't use the menu to jump ahead or skip over slides, nor can they use it to skip back to any previously viewed slides.

If you've used restricted or locked, they won't be able to jump ahead using the menu as mentioned.

Also, if you've set up free navigation or restricted and they're trying to access a slide previously seen, it's worth checking that you're also following along with the guidelines here for working with Storyline:

  • Work on your local drive (your C: drive).Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, includingfile corruption, loss of audio, and other unexpected behavior. 
  • You should also make sure the directory pathto your project files and your published output is less than 260 characters(for example C:\Articulate).
  • Avoid using special characters, accents orsymbols in your file names.

If you're still having difficulty after checking into those items above, can you share your .story file here with us? 

Patrik Lögdqvist

Hi Ashley,

Thanks again for thorough walkthroughs on the sometimes winding paths of Storyline.

I have though made all necessary tweaks and settings mentioned above, with meagre results.

Still I cannot make my one slide within a scen possible to navigate to via the menu.

All my slides are set to Free.

Since my project is under a protected stage I unfortunately cannot share it - I'll have
to try to figure it out on my own.

Big thanks anyway!

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