Pause button functionality

May 04, 2012

Is there a way to include a pause button in a Storyline course, but disable the ability to move forward on a slide by clicking inside the thermometer? In other words, I want learners to be able to pause any slide, but not skip over material.

11 Replies
Steve Flowers

Hey, Mike - 

You'd need to hide the seekbar and include a play / pause button within the slide or slide master. There isn't a specific trigger to toggle the play state. However, the layer property "pause base layer" can be handily leveraged. There are a few examples around, mine are listed here:

http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/12152.aspx

Mike B.

Steve,

Thanks, I kind of figured the solution would look something like that, but it's always good to see if there's another way. I've put in a feature request with Articulate, and it looks like several other people have as well. Luckily, my next scheduled project isn't a compliance course.

For those that stumble across this page, this thread is exploring the same issue in greater depth.

Wesley Costa

Steve,

I have been reading from all the post regarding this matter and I am truly hoping you can help.

I need a pause/play button that pauses the timeline. I cannot show the seekbar because it is for a compliance course.

Every slide I have is a different audio file. A master slide solution discussed above requires that I select a single file to pause/play trigger under Action: Pause Media Media: Sound from file.

The only solution I have been able to figure out is to add a button to every single slide. I need a faster way of doing this since it was an automatic part of Presenter and I have more than 100 slides per course which would take forever to add a button to each individual slide. Can you help? I would truly appreciate it.

Debbie Roberts

I couldn't work out how to pause my bullet points and audio at the same time - only just taking the course - however by going onto Articulate Heroes I eventually got the answer, which seems simple once you know, pause the timeline and audio separately with a trigger and do the same for play media and resume timeline triggers.

Very useful to have the heroes option.

Kind regards

Debbie

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