Next button trigger keeps changing

Mar 12, 2024

Jim Owen
By Jim Owen

I have several slides with multiple cue points at which the timeline pauses. I have set the trigger for the next button to resume the timeline rather than advance to the next slide. (I have also set the slides to advance to the next slide automatically when the timeline ends.) So, these slides have a few stopping points, and the user simply hits next to step through those points.

However, it seems that Storyline is continually changing the next button trigger back to its default of jumping to the next slide. I don't know what I'm doing to cause this, but after working on a slide for a while, I will eventually go test it and find that yet again, the next button advances the slide instead of resuming the timeline as I had told it to.

For a long time I thought I was accidentally doing this somehow, but I'm seeing this on multiple slides using this timeline pausing technique. What am I doing to cause the triggers to keep reverting like this?

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Jim Owen
2 months ago03/12/24 at 2:01 pm (UTC)

Well, never mind. Of course, as soon as I post the question, I see the answer, so I'm posting it here in case anyone runs into it.

If I change the next button trigger to something other than advancing to the next slide, and I have not yet set the slide to advance automatically, the view of the scene in the scene panel or in story view shows that the slide is no longer attached to the one after it, because there is at the moment no path from the slide to the next slide. If you then drag that next slide, under the current slide, THAT action changes the next button trigger behind the scenes.

So, the solution is to change whether the slide advances automatically or by user BEFORE you edit that trigger. Or else don't be tempted to drag your slides around in story view because they look wrong temporarily.

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