First create a text box with your text in it and move it out of the way. Then insert a scrolling panel where you want it on the screen; resize it how you'd like. Finally drag your text box over top of the scrolling panel. Here's a tip: make sure your text box is narrower than your scrolling panel when you drag it in. Once it's inside the scrolling panel your can resize it.
I’m also new to all this and I could not get it to work, using the instruction above. No matter how I tried I could not get a slider in the panel. Then, by pure chance, I sent the scrolling panel to the back, and then it worked all of a sudden.
You'll want to drag the text box into a scrolling panel, so that sounds similar to what you're seeing with making sure the scrolling panel is in the background.
As Brett Rockwood pointed out, this function is not very intuitive. I could not get it to work for a week, until I suddenly, by pure chance, tried to place the scrolling panel in the back.
I realise now, afterwards, that my mistake was that I started by creating the text box, then I created the scrolling panel (when I saw that the text would not fit in the slide) so the scrolling panel came over the text box. That made it impossible to get the scrolling panel to work, until I placed it behind the text block.
I made this chat entry to give other beginners a tip on how to fix similar problems.
Maybe it would be a good idea for Articulate to make this function a bit more intuitive or user friendly… 😊
Apart from this I feel that Storyline 360 is a system that is great fun to work with and very fast to create results with, so keep up the good work 😊
☺️ Thanks for the kind words, and the helpful user insight, Mats! I'll pass your thoughts along to my team. We offer this basic instruction here in the user guide; do you think a tip to make sure the scrolling panel is behind other slide objects would help?
Yes, I do think that it would be useful to point out that you should make shore that the scrolling panel should be behind the text box (or the objects you want to put in it) for example by sending it to the back of the slide. I guess that it is not uncommon that a user start by creating a text block and then realize that it is to big for the page and then try to create a scanning panel… just as I did.
I'm impressed by how vivid this forum is. My team and I are in the process of choosing system tools for our EdTech start up company and this vivid user and support community will defiantly be factored in, in our decision 😊
I am using the scrolling panel to scroll a text box that displays the page transcript. The transcript is set to change state from hidden to normal by clicking a button. Is there a way to make the scroll bar in the scrolling panel change state from hidden to normal also? Right now, the scroll bar is visible all the time.
Scrolling panels by design don't have states - so instead you may want to look at having this scrolling panel and text appear on a layer. That way you could trigger it based on the same click of a button for the transcript.
Ashley
Actually, I was able to make it work by changing the text box states inside
the scrolling panel. The scrollbar only appears on screen when the text box
is in "normal" state, when hidden the scroll bar is hidden also.
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Hi Rolf,
First create a text box with your text in it and move it out of the way. Then insert a scrolling panel where you want it on the screen; resize it how you'd like. Finally drag your text box over top of the scrolling panel. Here's a tip: make sure your text box is narrower than your scrolling panel when you drag it in. Once it's inside the scrolling panel your can resize it.
just as simply as that.... Thnx, works prefectly :)
Glad to hear it. It's not very intuitive but once you've tried it it works pretty well.
Glad that Brett was able to assist you here Rolf. Thanks for the update.
I’m also new to all this and I could not get it to work, using the instruction above. No matter how I tried I could not get a slider in the panel.
Then, by pure chance, I sent the scrolling panel to the back, and then it worked all of a sudden.
Hi Mats,
You'll want to drag the text box into a scrolling panel, so that sounds similar to what you're seeing with making sure the scrolling panel is in the background.
Let us know if you need more help!
Thank you Ashley
As Brett Rockwood pointed out, this function is not very intuitive. I could not get it to work for a week, until I suddenly, by pure chance, tried to place the scrolling panel in the back.
I realise now, afterwards, that my mistake was that I started by creating the text box, then I created the scrolling panel (when I saw that the text would not fit in the slide) so the scrolling panel came over the text box. That made it impossible to get the scrolling panel to work, until I placed it behind the text block.
I made this chat entry to give other beginners a tip on how to fix similar problems.
Maybe it would be a good idea for Articulate to make this function a bit more intuitive or user friendly… 😊
Apart from this I feel that Storyline 360 is a system that is great fun to work with and very fast to create results with, so keep up the good work 😊
☺️ Thanks for the kind words, and the helpful user insight, Mats! I'll pass your thoughts along to my team. We offer this basic instruction here in the user guide; do you think a tip to make sure the scrolling panel is behind other slide objects would help?
Yes, I do think that it would be useful to point out that you should make shore that the scrolling panel should be behind the text box (or the objects you want to put in it) for example by sending it to the back of the slide. I guess that it is not uncommon that a user start by creating a text block and then realize that it is to big for the page and then try to create a scanning panel… just as I did.
I'm impressed by how vivid this forum is. My team and I are in the process of choosing system tools for our EdTech start up company and this vivid user and support community will defiantly be factored in, in our decision 😊
Understood, Mats! Thanks for your feedback.
We agree that this community is top-notch, and I'm glad you're a part of it! 😁
Can I add hot spots to a scrolling panel? I'm trying to develop for phone application and would like to be able to branch from the scrolling panel.
Hi Ruth,
Yes, you can add hotspots to a scrolling panel.
Thank you.
I am using the scrolling panel to scroll a text box that displays the page transcript. The transcript is set to change state from hidden to normal by clicking a button. Is there a way to make the scroll bar in the scrolling panel change state from hidden to normal also? Right now, the scroll bar is visible all the time.
Hi Scott,
Scrolling panels by design don't have states - so instead you may want to look at having this scrolling panel and text appear on a layer. That way you could trigger it based on the same click of a button for the transcript.
Ashley
Actually, I was able to make it work by changing the text box states inside
the scrolling panel. The scrollbar only appears on screen when the text box
is in "normal" state, when hidden the scroll bar is hidden also.
Neat trick
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Great news Scott. Thanks for chiming in to share.
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