Next/Previous slide from sequence order instead of visited order
Jul 31, 2020
Hi!
I googled this issue and only found a 4 years old thread with no clear solution so here I am creating a new one.
On Storyline, the click-buttons for next/previous slides seem to be hard-coded so that they navigate to the next/previous slides visited by the user. What I would like is to be able to make the buttons navigate to the next/previous slides in the sequence order. In these button's trigger options, I seem to be limited, being only able to select "jump to prev/next slide", jump to same slide, or to select a particular slide.
That can be a problem because if I duplicate the slide, every time I need to modify the button's trigger to jump to the right slides, which is not time efficient for bigger projects. Also, if I need to insert new slides, I need to pass through every trigger to be certain my navigation is still good.
What I would like to be able to do, is for my triggers to jump to "current slide + 1" or "current slide - 1", or something like that.
Thank you for your help! :)
2 Replies
Hi, David,
The default NEXT always goes to the "current slide + 1" within a given scene. You only have to adjust that trigger if you need the course to jump to another scene or for non-linear branching within a scene.
As for PREV: Yes, the default is to return to whatever slide the user was on before they reached the current slide. In other words, it works like a browser's Back button. But if the course is only allowing users to navigate via PREV and NEXT (i.e., there's no Menu showing and no branching), then the default triggers will always stay in sequence.
However, as you've found, when any non-linear navigation is allowed, if you want PREV to always go to the "current slide - 1," you have to revise the trigger so it jumps to a specific slide. And, yes, that means re-revising triggers when you add or delete slides. Sorry, but I don't think there's another way.
I am having to do this now (customize navigation) for all the PREV triggers in a particular project and I wish there was an option for last slide visited OR prior slide in sequence. Would be a great feature for when the need arises for custom navigation.
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