New Bug - Align to Playhead

Hi Tim,

I'm sorry to hear about the difficulty you're experiencing with Storyline 2. You may find that aligning objects to the playhead or to cue points unexpectedly lengthens the timeline.

This is a known issue. It'll be fixed in the next software update for Articulate Storyline. In the meantime, you'll need to manually adjust the end of the timeline if it extends unnecessarily.

I'll include this thread in the report filed with our QA team so that we'll be able to update you with any additional information here. 

Hi Tim

Articulate Storyline 2 Update 5 is now available for download. It includes WCAG 2.0 support, several new accessibility features, better HTML5 performance, and bug fixes. Click here for details:

Hi, Tim - 

This issue was recently reported again in this thread as not having been corrected with Update 5, and has been resubmitted with our QA Team for further investigation. I will add your thread to the ticket, and update here when I receive more information. In the meantime (as I cannot offer a specific timeframe for resolution), this was offered as a workaround: only use "align to cue point" and make sure it's set to "show until end" by right clicking on the item in the timeline. Hope that helps. 

Hi all,

I wanted to provide an update here, as Storyline 2 Update 11 was just released, and included a number of fixes which you can see in the release notes available here. The item you all may be particularly interested in is how it fixed an issue where aligning objects to the playhead would extend the timeline of the slide.

You can download the latest update here, and after downloading and installing the latest update you’ll want to republish any existing content to ensure that the updates and fixes are applied.

Let us know if you have any questions, either here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

Hi Ashley,

I'm experiencing this issue with Articulate 360. It's functioned like this as long as I can remember but I finally decided to search the forums to see what I could find. I just updated 5 minutes ago so I'm running whatever the most recent version was as of today. I've been dealing with it for years and so I'm used to it but I thought I should point out that it's still an issue that's floating around.

*I should add that the timeline only extends when I am moving ALL items on a slide UP on the timeline (ex. all items are at 10 seconds and I want to move them up to 0)

Hi Nadia,

Thanks for letting us know what you're experiencing, and I'm sorry you're running into this issue in Storyline 360.

Bug: When "Show until the end" is enabled, Align to playhead for an object extends the length of the timeline.

We do have it reported it to our team and continue to keep an eye on it to evaluate how many customers are impacted. We'll jump back in here when there's any news to share on a fix.

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing your experience as well.

This is still an open issue with our team, so I do not have any additional information to provide at this time.

I wanted to share some information on how we define bugs and how we tackle them when they occur.

I'm having the same experience in 360. This bug is driving me crazy! I can't believe that this bug was discovered 8 years ago.

I'm experiencing the same thing. It doesn't even make sense that when I use align to playhead to move an object "left" on the timeline the timeline extends an equal amount to the right. 

This is driving me insane! I've just had Storyline increase the time of the slide from 85 seconds to over 2000 seconds. And when I try to drag everything back, it just bounces back to over 2000 seconds.

I'm working locally, with the latest 360 updates.