Navigation Menu Behavior for Hidden Slides
Mar 19, 2018
Articulate Community,
I am working on a software simulation module using a Storyline screen recording. As you know, the "View" option for a Storyline screen recording is broken up into individual slides for every mouse or keyboard action. In my case, a Navigation Menu that showed every single one of these slides would be too long (at best) or extremely confusing and unhelpful (at worst). I know I can hide slides from the navigation menu. When I do that, the navigation menu highlights the slides that are visible in the menu as they are visited. When the course advances to a slide or slides that are not on the navigation menu, nothing is highlighted. This could easily lead to user confusion.
In this case, I would like the navigation menu to keep the most recent visible slide highlighted until the NEXT visible slide in the course, then highlight that slide. Think of it almost like having hidden slides "nested" under the preceding visible slide in the navigation menu. This doesn't appear to be an option. Please reply if you know of a way to achieve the behavior I have described.
Sincerely,
Paul O.
3 Replies
Hi Paul,
You can certainly nest your menu items, but once they are hidden it does not work as you're describing.
When nesting, you can have them auto-collapse as well. Not sure if that would help you out in the meantime.
Hopefully someone in the community will be able to chime in to share how they've accomplished a similar task.
Leslie,
Thanks for the reply. I'll submit a feature request. This opens up a pandora's box of opportunities to give developers control over the navigation menu. I would love to have more control over how it looks, how it works, and what it displays. As it is, the navigation menu looks and feels clunky and outdated compared to the dynamic, fluid interactions Storyline offers.
It's super confusing to be in the middle of a course and have nothing highlighted in the navigation menu. It begs the question, "Where am I?"
Sincerely,
Paul O.
I'd ask the same question Paul :)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and use-case.
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