Newbie here. Hoping for some assistance in the dreaded next button situation. I have used pictures as buttons with triggers to other slides and have a trigger to change the state of the next button back to normal once all pictures are visited. Yet the next button won't enable. I attached a screenshot hoping to show the set up.
Hello! I am having the same issue, but with layers rather than other slides. I too have tried "selected" vs. "visited" with no luck. I am looking forward to seeing your resolution!
Totally understandable. In these cases, you could take the time to paste a copy of just the slide in question into a new project file, and then remove/replace any proprietary information with placeholder text (Lorem ipsum) or generic images…while keeping the settings, triggers, and states in place. If that sounds like too much work, Articulate’s customer support is a safe bet.
Oh, to upload a project file (i.e., the .story file), just add the file in your response here as an attachment.
I usually create a custom state for clickable items if I want to control the Next button. Whether you are jumping to a page or a layer, create a custom state for each clickable image. I named the state "Complete".
The attached file has examples of both jump to page and show layers
Jump to Slide
For each page that the image jumps to, create a True/False variable (for example, Slide_1_2). Create a trigger for each clickable image:
Change the state of Lungs image to Complete when the timeline starts on this page IF variable Slide_1_2 is equal to TRUE
Add another trigger for the Next Button
Change the state of the Next button to Normal when the timeline starts IF all of these variables are TRUE: Slide_1_2 And Slide_1_3 And Slide_1_3 (etc)
Add a trigger to each Jumped to page that adjusts its variable to true. In my example, I adjusted the variable to True when the learner clicks the Back Button.
Jump to Layer
For each Layer that the image jumps to, create a True/False variable (for example, Slide_1_1_Layer_1).
On each layer, create a trigger to change the state of the clickable image on the base layer:
Change the State of Lungs to Complete when the timeline ends (or whatever action you want)
On the base layer, create a trigger that changes the state of the Next button to Normal when the state of all the images are equal to Complete.
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Hi Rebecca. Looks like you have the trigger set up so the button becomes normal when the state of all the pictures are "Selected" - not "Visited."
Give that an update and you should be golden.
Sorry I had tried the selected as well and took the screen shot then. When it is set to visited it still won't enable :(
I see. Are you able to upload the story file?
Hello! I am having the same issue, but with layers rather than other slides. I too have tried "selected" vs. "visited" with no luck. I am looking forward to seeing your resolution!
Hello! Sorry for the delay in response. Shift work :)
I am having some trouble trying to upload a story file vs the published zip file. Publishing in which format would work for this?
Also I am concerned about what my employer might think of having the content I am working on visible. Is the only other option to contact support?
Thank you!
Totally understandable. In these cases, you could take the time to paste a copy of just the slide in question into a new project file, and then remove/replace any proprietary information with placeholder text (Lorem ipsum) or generic images…while keeping the settings, triggers, and states in place. If that sounds like too much work, Articulate’s customer support is a safe bet.
Oh, to upload a project file (i.e., the .story file), just add the file in your response here as an attachment.
I usually create a custom state for clickable items if I want to control the Next button. Whether you are jumping to a page or a layer, create a custom state for each clickable image. I named the state "Complete".
The attached file has examples of both jump to page and show layers
Jump to Slide
For each page that the image jumps to, create a True/False variable (for example, Slide_1_2). Create a trigger for each clickable image:
Add another trigger for the Next Button
Slide_1_2
And Slide_1_3
And Slide_1_3
(etc)
Add a trigger to each Jumped to page that adjusts its variable to true. In my example, I adjusted the variable to True when the learner clicks the Back Button.
Jump to Layer
For each Layer that the image jumps to, create a True/False variable (for example, Slide_1_1_Layer_1).
On each layer, create a trigger to change the state of the clickable image on the base layer:
On the base layer, create a trigger that changes the state of the Next button to Normal when the state of all the images are equal to Complete.
Yay! That worked!
Thank you so much for the example scene to work from!
Learning has occurred.
That worked for the layers scenario as well. Thank you very much!