Moving grouped objects on motion paths

Hi Charles,

Happy to help here! 

This is an older post there are a couple of alternative solutions here that I think might help: Drag and Drop Reset Option. The main idea is to add a trigger on the try again layer that jumps to the base layer and changes the slide properties to "Reset to Initial State". 

If you have any questions or hit any snags, please let us know! We are happy to help! 

Thanks, but I think that way I’d get in an endless loop of repeated attempts. I’ve limited the attempts to two, so that won’t work.

Hi Vincent,

I looked at the link in your message and see in the old conversation there are some directions to avoid getting caught in a ’try again’ loop. I’ll look at those in more detail when I get a chance and adjust my file accordingly.

Thanks again,
Chuck

I looked through the post you linked to above. Unfortunately those solutions won't address my original problem. A reset to original state will make the user start over. I only want to move the incorrect objects back to their starting points, not everything.

Way down in the linked post is a description for using paths to achieve something like I want, but the problem here is that I am trying to move groups back to the starting point and this only works with individual objects.

It seems strange that you can select the group when defining the action as 'move' but you cannot choose the group to perform the variable as noted in my original post.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Hi Charles!

I understand what you're looking for! Since adding "Groups" in the Conditions area of a Trigger, we are going to use States. Surprisingly, it's an easy fix!

I've created a short tutorial for you here, and also attached the file to this reply.

I'll be here if you have any questions!

Thank you very much. The states approach worked perfectly. 

I made paths that moved the incorrect answers along a path so they don't just pop back to position. Client loves animation and this gives a strong visual cue to the users.

I never thought of using states to do this, but I'll remember it now! I have the same issue in a few files, in 20 languages each, so this is very valuable information for me.