next button not enabling when requested
Mar 20, 2019
Morning everyone, I have read all the other discussions I could find where the next button is not enabling...I feel like I might need to use variables instead of triggers and sadly I thought I had this issue before, but I can't find a discussion of mine.
slide 1.6 - Strategies slide on pharma and non-pharma interventions -2 shapes to click on - one is red (pharma), it will open a lightbox, you close it it returns to this window, click the blue (non-pharm) it opens a layer with two buttons (less and more formal), when those layers open with scrolling panels, the less formal has a button to jump back so you can click on the more formal button, on the more formal it has a button to jump back to the base layer. I set the next button to disabled while the red and blue shapes are equal to normal either/or, but then set next button to normal when they are both equal to visited. I just can't see what I am missing. any help would be awesome...thanks Teresa (seems cumbersome, so hoping someone might have something simpler and that works)
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Hi, I change the trigger on the base slide to just disable the next button when the timeline starts. Then I added in a trigger on the Non-Pharm layer that changes the state of the next button to normal when the Less and More formal buttons are visited. It seems to work fine. Noel
Thanks Noel, I am sure I tried that as well :) I really tested all variations, but thank you so much! What I really wanted to do was have both the Pharma in a lightbox as it is, and was hoping the NonPharma could be a lightbox with the less and more formal open in a lightbox. But I would get to the point of closing the second lightbox for less formal and then I couldn't get to the more formal....anyway, it was starting to hurt my brain, I am sure there was an easier way. I did just have next to disable when timeline start but I couldn't get it to work with whatever else I had at the time. Thanks again, and sorry about the ramble :)
Hi Teresa, I've had a play around with it and attached another version - which should do what you want. Only downside to this option is that they could navigate to the next slide without looking at the More and Less formal lightboxes. But apart from that it works fine.
Wow, this is exactly what I wanted to do, and since the Next button looks faint in the background when the lightbox is up, I think they are likely to click the Less and More formal buttons, But I can't figure out how did you get the second red circle with white x for the Less/More Formal lightboxes to come up overtop the Non Pharma? As that is what I wanted but couldn't figure it out. I am excited...LOL! When I did the second light box for Less formal, it then closed the whole lightbox and returned to the strategies slide. I have looked at yours and I still am not sure how you did it :) thank you by the way for helping me, this forum is great :)
Your welcome, this is a great forum for me to extend my Storyline skills and solve some problems . I use it as a form of skill development. It's always interesting to see the challenges people have and to have a go at solving them if it's something I can assist with.
That is so great, that you enjoy it as much as I am grateful for it. So, I looked at yours and then applied it to mine and it works, but I was so sure I didn't get a second lightbox over top with the red circle and x but now I do....so I must have done something wrong initially. As I don't see anything extra about the close circle white x for yours it just showed up :) I was also looking at a discussion where they were showing how to create a lightbox look but via a layer which was interesting too. Thanks again.
That's a fantastic way to build up your skills.
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