Pausing and Restarting Audio and Timeline on Slide Revisit with Custom Player

Hi Lauren,

I'm confused by all your triggers associated with playing/pausing the audio and timeline - as if you remove those and let the slide work as normal, returning to the slide allows the audio and timeline to pick up where it left off based on the "resume saved state" property of the slide. Perhaps look at removing all the variable and timeline triggers and focus solely on the pause button you have on the slide and use the functionality here to pause the slide itself while the user is viewing it. 

Thanks, Ashley!

I tried deleting all the triggers that were not associated with the magnifying glass and pause icons, but the slide is still not functioning the way I'd like it to function. When the user clicks the magnifying glass to the next slide, and then clicks back to the original slide, the audio begins automatically playing again from the beginning of the clip. The way it should function is that the audio and timeline slide should still be paused on revisit, and the audio and timeline should pick up where it left off when the user presses the play icon.

Hi Lauren,

When i tested it I deleted them all and then added back in just the trigger for the "jump to next slide" when clicking on the magnifying glass. That's where it worked for me normally - and I didn't go much farther than that as I wasn't sure of all your additional elements. If you used that layer method - you could also show the layer prior to jumping to another slide and just only set it up to hide the layer when the user clicks the play button (on the layer). 

Hi Ashley,

I'm wondering if the example I sent was a little too basic to fully illustrate the issue we're having. I've attached a better demonstration of what we are doing. It seems like deleting all the triggers and only using the "jump to next slide" option breaks other things within the course, and doesn't achieve the paused audio/paused timeline on revisit state we want.

Each slide in this file has timed animation on it. When navigating using the breadcrumb trail OR the previous button, we want the user to return to a slide they have previously viewed and find the slide in a saved state. We'd like the audio to be paused and the timeline to be paused at the exact point at which the user left the slide. Only after the user presses the play icon should the audio and timeline begin playing, and again, they should begin at the point at which the user left the slide. Right now, most of the slides are functioning in a way that starts the audio over again from the beginning, but picks up where the timeline left off, or vice versa. I can't figure out why this is happening, as the triggers are set to pause the audio, not stop it completely, and I have triggers set to pause the timeline. 

We really don't want to reset each slide to initial state because we don't want the audio to automatically play when the user revisits a slide for the second, third, or fourth time. However, we really need the audio and timeline to be in sync on those second, third, and fourth revisits. I'm at a loss as to the way forward to achieve this. Your help is greatly appreciated!

Another note: We want the user to be able to pause the audio and timeline while they are on the slide as well. If they pause the audio and the timeline on one slide, when they advance forward to the next slide, the audio and the timeline should automatically be paused in that situation as well, even if they have not previously viewed this slide, and not play until the user clicks the play icon.