Not allowing users to seek within the seekbar

+1 for adding the functionality to lock the seekbar to prevent users from skipping ahead

Please tell how to lock seek bar ..

any idea...

Thanks

I want to print my certificate is that posible? Can Anyone help me to resolve the issues.

Hi Yogesh,

Please see your answer on this page

http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/12471.aspx

Thanks...

Hi Yogesh,

Please see your answer on this page

http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/12471.aspx

Thanks...

Hallo,

I just found out a way to prevent users to click the next button when the seeking bar isn't finished:  (beside creating your own buttons):

1. Create a new trigger:

_Change state of

_Click on an object (for exmpl: picture14)

_To state "hidden"

_When timeline ends

_Object= your slide

2. Edit the next button trigger:

_Jump to slide

_next slide

_when user clicks

_Next Button

_on condition

_shapes

_if picture 14

_= = equal to hidden

This should work...

Good luck....

Tim,

Thanks for the info!

Is there a way to prevent the user from seeking forward to the end of the timeline by clicking the right side of the seek bar?

Thanks again,

Tom

Hi Tim and welcome to Heroes! 

Great method and one further described here. 

Thomas, 

There isn't a way to stop the users from clicking on the seekbar, although there is some further discussions linked in this thread that you may want to look into depending on what you're trying to achieve. 

There are many seekbar issues while user using to forward so I want to lock the seekbar, I want to use as progress bar for my course.

When I unchecked the seeakbar in player, I loss play pause and replay functionality from player.

There are many seekbar issues while user using to forward so I want to lock the seekbar, I want to use as progress bar for my course.

When I unchecked the seeakbar in player, I loss play pause and replay functionality from player.

Hi Shailesh

are you using SL1 or SL2?

In SL2 you can lock the seekbar so the user can't drag it but they still have access to the play, pause and replay functions.

Hi ,

I’m using Storyline 1.7

Regards

Shailesh

Hi Shailesh,

There isn't a way to lock the seekbar within SL1, and if you remove the seekbar it'll also remove the play/pause buttons. 

Just wanted to throw this out; I have SL 1 and I had the issue come up with the users seeking ahead in a video. What I did was turn on the video controls for the video (turned off the seek-bar for the player window for that page) and put a "hotspot" over the entire seek bar. That way, when the user tries to click ahead, you can have another layer appear that instructs them to complete the entire video.

Great fix Jill. I have always used the seekbar with user control, however just ran into a situation the client doesn't want this. Your fix is perfect to remove user control but keep the timeline so user knows how long the video is.

Thanks.

Vanessa are you using Storyline 2?  There is a player setting in Storyline 2 that allows you to set the seek bar to read only so you don't have to do this work around any more. Look at the seek bar options under the player tab.

If you are using Storyline 1 you will have to use Jill's approach.

Hi Nancy,

I am on SL2. I can't find the read only you mentioned. Where?

Hi Vanessa!

Check out this tutorial.

Click Player on toolbar first:

• Seekbar: This adds a seekbar to the bottom of your player. It's a good visual indicator of the slide's timeline. If you add a seekbar to your player, use the accompanying drop-down to choose whether learners can use it to scrub back and forth along the timeline or make it read-only.

Select the Home tab > then click the Player icon to edit the player properties.  In the control section select the seekbar  if it is not already enabled. Notice that the dropdown list beside the seekbar is now active. Select the "Seekbar is read-only" option from the dropdown list and then click OK to save your changes.

Thank you Nancy and Leslie.

Bruce did this work?  you can't do that in the native player only if it was a customized.  Thoughts.

Hi Doug,

This thread is a bit dated and I'm not sure if Bruce is still subscribed here, but he is still active in the forums.

You are certainly welcome to reach out to the user directly via the 'Contact Me' option on the user profile if you do not hear back soon.

Again...great workaround @Jill fixed the problem for a particular client of mine nicely! Shame there isn't an option in the Video Controls to disable seeking.