Next button not always appearing when you go back to a slide

Hi Ashley

quick interstate trip - some work, some family ;-) pity I arrived and my bag didn't...:-(

See, and with that Melissa you see with Storyline there is always more than one way to set something up. It really depends on your own process, how you think through the logic, etc. which is why another set of eyes is always helpful.

Wendy, your interstate trips are likely much longer than mine. Hope your bags arrive soon! 

Wendy and Ashley,

I am having a weird issue occur. The next button is showing, when I click on the layer, but the audio is not completed, and the variables are still showing as False.

Hi Melissa

Do you want to upload your latest file  and let us know which slide you are referring to. So the next button isn't hiding on timeline start?

Hi Wendy! I don't get how this works (but it does). I even set the slide to reset to initial state, but it worked (I didn't see the Next button first time around, but I did on the second time).

How does this work? I thought reset to initial state would make start the timeline on the slide over and therefore suppress the Next button.

hmmmmm

Hey Victoria

nice to hear from you - I assume you are referring to the story file above I uploaded for Melissa.

I used a number variable to count the number of times the slide starts - this variable overrides the 'reset to initial' state option.

So the first time, the variable is = 1 it hides the next button, when the timeline of the first slide starts again, the number variable increments to 2 and shows the next button and will continue to do so every time that slide starts UNLESS I set another trigger to stop the variable from counting.

Variables are 'king' ;-)

Wow! that is so cool! I will try that.

I moved up to Bribie Island. I sent a message via your website before I left. Not sure if you got it. I wanted to send you my personal email so we could organise that dinner I owe you!

does this mean that you would have to create a variable for each and every slide that has thi issue?  its too bad the "slide behaviour" setting "automatically decide" isnt more intuitive.

Hi Dean,

Yup - it would be a variable for each slide to ensure that upon a revisit the user is shown the correct information.. 

Hi all,

Thanks for your patience as we investigate the issue associated with the next button not being normal/accessible on a revisit to a slide where you had initially set it to hidden at the start of the slide.  It’s been determined that this behavior is as expected based on what the triggers are telling Storyline, although it may not match what you wanted to occur.

Since the previous/next buttons are set to be hidden at the start of the slide via triggers, when returning to the slide the command given to Storyline is to hide the buttons as soon as the slide starts. The slide is resuming the saved state of the previous/next buttons as expected, but then the triggers tell Storyline to hide them as soon as the slide loads.

This is where applying the conditions to those initial triggers will come into play - as you’ll want to adjust the next/previous buttons to “hidden” only if the user has not visited this slide before. You’ll see this set up in the file I attached that has that trigger/condition set up associated with the state change of the next player button.

Please let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi Ashley

Thank you for the clarification.  

Thanks Ashley!

No problem - and it stumped me too, so I'm glad we were able to get our team to investigate and then clarify!