Next Button Disabled on Revisit
Apr 16, 2021
I have the prev/next buttons set to locked. When I click on previous and it takes me back one slide, the next button looks enabled and then automatically goes to disabled upon revisiting the prior slide.
My revisit condition is set to "Resume Saved State". My next button triggers on the current slide are to disable at start of timeline and change to normal when either a video complete or the timeline ends.
Why won't my next buttons state enabled upon revisit if I have the condition set to "Resume Saved State" upon revisiting?
11 Replies
Hi, Sara,
Unfortunately, there's a known bug. When a slide is set to "Resume saved state," it won't replay the timeline animations and such. However, the program will re-execute timeline triggers.
If you want to disable the Next button the first time the user encounters each slide, the simplest way is to set the Menu Options to Restricted navigation.
If you only want to control the Next button for a given slide, do this:
I too have this issue with this bug and was quite relieved as I was starting to doubt my logic.
I've tried to implement the suggested fix using the variables option, but I can't get it to work.
My next button doesn't change to "normal" and I'm not sure what I'm missing, I've attached screenshots of my triggers.
Can anyone help please?
Hello Michelle,
Thank you for chiming in with what you see as well. You mention that your next button doesn't change to normal and I'm not seeing a trigger to do so.
Try adding a trigger that states:
Next Button
to Normal
When the state of all of
Commission btn
Maint btn
Permit btn
Restore btn
is Visited
Thanks so much Leslie,
I knew it was something simple (have been looking at it too long).
I appreciate everyone's reply! Using @Judy Nollets recommendations I was able to resolve the issue using the restricted format and deleting all triggers that I had connected to the next button. That was the only way to resolve it.
Thanks for the update, Sara. I'm glad to hear that Judy's solution was able to help!
I am new to Articulate. A project I am working on requires the timeline restricted till slide media completes. I found the menu restriction very helpful. I am using inbuilt navigation rathe than create a custm button but the only issue is that the next button is still restricted upon revisit and not as Judy Nollet explained above. I wonder if I am doing anything wrong. I also noticed that the accessibility shortcut for "next" and "back" does not obey the menu restriction. Is there a way around this?
Thanks
I found help through this link: How to disable and enable next buttons - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Hi Vincent!
Welcome to Storyline and the E-Learning Heroes community!
It would be very helpful if we could see your project file so we can see how you set up your buttons and shortcuts.
Would you be willing to share a copy of your project file here or in private by opening a support case for testing? We'll delete it when we're finished troubleshooting!
Thank you so much @Steven Benassi. I was able to get permission to share a sample of my project and just submitted a case for the accessibility shortcut and toggling play/pause using built-in features. Regarding the restricted navigation, I was able to figure that out. I initially enabled "restriction" because of the favourable wordings.
However enabling "locking" simplified the process and all I needed to do was add triggers for viewing the next or previous buttons. I didn't have to create any trigger for revisiting the slide.
This is a very helpful community. Thank you all.
Hi Vincent!
My pleasure! Thanks for sharing the feedback on what worked for you! I'm sure it will be useful to other community members when coming across this thread!
Also, great call on opening up a support case! Our support engineers have a wealth of knowledge and insight so you're in excellent hands!
Please let me know if you need anything else!
Many thanks to Articulate Support for reviewing and finding a work around to my accessibility request. The steps are listed here below and the sample attached.
Thanks for contacting Articulate Support!
I understand that you wanted to use the keyboard left and right for navigation but you wanted it to follow the navigation restrictions.
You may want to consider using True/False variable as condition to your keyboard navigation triggers. Here's how:
If Nav = value True.
See the screenshot for your reference: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharing.articulate.team%2F5zujodp7&data=05%7C01%7Cvincent.olakanye%40ontario.ca%7Cd9d187e645c441dc7c0608db45d6eca0%7Ccddc1229ac2a4b97b78a0e5cacb5865c%7C0%7C0%7C638180563068818707%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GJpQoeV9XKrhB%2FgMJ5J%2BmclJ6eH63bJeR2Xuz0BD2hw%3D&reserved=0
Action: Adjust variable
Variable: Set Nav to value False
When: when the timeline starts on
Object: This slide
Action: Adjust variable
Variable: Set Nav to value True
When: when the timeline ends on
Object: This slide
We are adding this in the slide level instead of the Slide Master layout because each slide has a different timeline duration.