Menu Saved Status & Slider

Hi Guy,

Are you using the built in menu of the Storyline player or a more customized menu? Are you able to share a sample of what you've set up here? 

Ashley,

This is a custom menu. Here’s the link to preview the course on my SCORM Cloud site.

START

Want I’d like is that, after viewing a section and returning to the menu, it would return to the same layer it left.

Thanks!

Guy

Hi Guy,

I didn't see a link included here - but if you've set up a custom menu, and you want the user to return to the layer on which they left off, you'll want to look at the triggers as to how the layer is closing and/or the slide properties that are set to "resume saved state". 

Ashly:

Here’s the link again.

https://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=0f6ad69a-2a91-46e6-a8db-9a5c8e6e3781

I have set the menu slide properties to “resumed saved state”, yet when it returns the menu slide it defaults to show the initial layer set on the slider, even though the slider position is saved. ???

Thanks, Guy

Hi Guy, 

Thanks for sharing the link - cool menu set up. I think we'll also need to see the actual .story file if you'd like to share it here. Oddly enough the slider than moves correctly and seems to reset itself? 

Ashley,

Thanks for the positive feedback. I think you may be misunderstanding the issue I’m trying to fix..

On the main menu there are five pads – the Welcome pad in the middle and the four content pads to the left and right, each with buttons linking to scenes in the program.

The user can scroll to any of the content areas and click on a scene. Fine.

When the user is delivered back to the main menu, I want the content pad they just used to be front and center, not the Welcome pad.

Right now it always goes back to the Welcome pad, even though the slider bar stays on the position it was at.

Does this make sense? Can you see the issue I’m trying to resolve?

Here is the link to download the author file.

https://app.box.com/s/7enkgwx9yv02wzk9zlsqj89d8ncja3q3

Thanks again for your help.

Ashley,

Here’s what I’m seeing.

Here’s the main menu page with layers and scroll bar at bottom. Default on scroll bar is set to Welcome layer:

I scroll to one of the menu layers with buttons (Choice) and select one (History)

After the course plays that scene, it routes us back to the main menu, where it’s supposed to return to the saved state and the layer it last showed. But here’s what we see – the Welcome layer, not the Choice layer that we saw when we left the slide. The position of the scroll bar is saved, and if I scroll over to the Choice layer, it saves the visited state of the button. It doesn’t save what layer was last shown when we left the slide.

Here’s what we should see when we land back at the menu slide: the Choice layer showing the button state changed.

Hope this clarifies the issue and hope you can help me.

Thanks,

Guy

Hi Ashley,

Just wondering if you or your team have been able to come up with a solution to my menu saved layer issue?

I sent you the author files on Tuesday.

Thanks for your help!

Guy

Hi Guy! Sorry that your file upload was missed. I took a look and what you are wanting to do is return to a specific layer, correct? I invite you to check out this thread on how this can be accomplished with variables.

Leslie,

Thanks for your advise. This makes sense. I will give it a try and let you know how it works when I’m done.

Thanks!

Guy

Good luck Guy! I agree with Ashley though - it does look great. I like the concept :)

Guy,

It appears the issue is that you have a trigger that says Show Layer 00 DEGREES WELCOME when timeline starts. So it does that every time the user goes back to the menu slide. It is overriding the rest of the programming.

I was able to get the menu to function as you intended by adding a condition to that trigger. 

"If Slider7 is equal to 5.00"

It is a great menu concept! 

Thanks for sharing Deanna :)