Possible to skip slides based on a user's ID or level?

Hello Michael!

You could set this up by adding a starting slide where user can select their user level. The you can have that selection branch to the slides they need to view. You could set up 2 scenes, one for each level with the slides needed. Or you could use the variable as you said. You could have the button for the user lever change the variable, and have the next button branch based on the variable.

Hey Emily,

Thanks for the response! The tricky part here is that they user level needs to be imported somehow, so that based on their answers on the website that launches the CBT, the CBT would play and determine the path of the CBT (which slides could be skipped) based on that user level that is imported. Does that make sense?

Kind of tricky. I guess the first questions is if there is a way to import that user level, in other words launch the CBT with the user level variable stored.

Thanks!

Hi Michael,

I do not know of an internal way to have outside variables imported into Storyline. I am sure if this is something that can happen with maybe JavaScript, someone from the community will jump in with ideas.

I have not tried this but if you could attach a query string to the url where the users launch their course (e.g., www.mycoursehost.com/coursename/story.html?q=1) (or =2) you should be able to write Javascript to parse that when the course launches. You'd need a trigger on the first slide for when timeline starts to execute a script that can pass that q value to an internal SL variable representing the level. To create the querystring initially you'd probably need some sort of a login page they would fill in when they wanted to play the course. Hope this helps

Thanks for sharing Marc.

Thanks Marc! I really appreciate the input. That gives me a starting point to work from. I'll be sure to post here if I can get  this to work.

I did find a solution to this, so thought I would share. In my example I had 3 user levels (1,2,3) and set it up to launch the story file with an extension like ?q=1, ?q=2, or ?q=3, for example http://websiteurl.com/story.html?q=1

Then in the slide that where you want to add the argument to alter which slide they advance to when clicking the next button, depending on their user level, you can add an Execute Javascript trigger with the following code

function gup( name )
{
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
if( results == null )
return "";
else
return results[1];
}

var player = GetPlayer();

var sid = gup("q");
var cid = gup("q");

player.SetVar("q",sid);
player.SetVar("q",cid);

Hit reply too early there....

If you create a variable name q, you can then set your triggers based on the value of that, such as

Jump to slide 3 When user clicks the next button, If q is equal to 3

Hope that helps

The querystring is a good solution. Here's an example (and another 3 replies down in the same thread) that takes a querystring value and uses that to drive a slide jump.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/best-approach-for-internal-bookmarking#reply-65314