Next button doesn't work after submitting text entry interaction?

Sep 09, 2015

Hi everyone, 

I'm making a project that guides users through a database search, and have (tried to) make it so that users have to type the right search terms before they can proceed. The text entries weren't properly captured in Try Mode, so I've 'Converted to Freeform' according to a tutorial I found and added them that way. Just changed the location and name of the tutorial too, as I've read that that can cause issues, but no joy. I've uploaded my project in case that helps. For some reason Slide 1.8 works fine, but the others (1.10, 1.13 and 1.15) don't. It may be because that was the only one that was captured ok in the recording process. If anyone can spot the problem, that would be amazing! I've already eaten my way through a pile of chocolates while trying to get this fixed...

5 Replies
Tracy Parish

Hi Tracy:

I worked through it and it seemed to work okay.  I had to click in the text boxes to be able to type in my text, but it worked. I could type in my answers, click next and it advanced to the next slide.  Not sure what error you were experiencing.

Just as a note, it works regardless of what I type in.  That might be fine, but you might want to change it and add in a layer of feedback when the "typed answer" is incorrect.

I would also make sure every time you ask them to type in something you at the quotes around those words.  Saw it the first time, but not on the others.  That's a formatting thing you might not even have hit yet.

 

 

Tracy Dix

Thanks so much for looking at my course, Tracy, but alas! the slides still don't advance and I've tested it on 2 pcs now. It's heartening (though confusing) that it works for you though!

It still doesn't work regardless of what I type in, although if I leave the text entry field blank, a prompt comes up to follow the instructions.

Thanks for the note about quotes. It's a tricky one as the quotes are for searching a phrase in the database, so I can't use that around everything. Have put it in bold though, in the hope that would make sense to students.

So, if anyone else can see the problem I've described, and is able to help, I'd appreciate it. Could save me redoing the whole course all over! :) 

Tracy Dix

Hi everyone, since the problem arose from my recordings not capturing text entries properly (hence my using freeform text entries to recreate it, causing the issue with the Next button) - guess overall it was just an over-engineered project? Anyway, I realised that recordings on Internet Explorer or Firefox tend to capture finer details, so I did that, and it was much much quicker. All is fine now.

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