Preview in Player Properties shows differently in two modules despite using same templates

Hi Fabienne,

Did you check that all slides are using the Player default and that they all have the built in buttons turned off? Even if just one slide had a button remaining, it would impact the player size for the course as a whole, as it's not adjusting at each individual slide. If you're still having odd behavior we'll want to take a look at the .story file. 

Hi Ashley!

Many thanks for your reply! I was about to close down for the day after reading other discussions on the forum and there you appear!

So do you mean I have to check each slide property to make sure they all have their navigation buttons turned off? I will have time to do this tomorrow if this is the case. Also do I check if they all use the Player default in the Slide properties window?

Hi Fabienne -

I'm always coming back - just mostly here U.S. east coast hours. ;-)

The slide properties will be where you can see the navigational elements too and what player properties they're using (i.e. menu, seekbar, etc.) - so if you've turned them all off from within the player, but one slide had say the "next" button enabled it may be adding that space within the player across all the slides. If you take a look and don't find anything, we'll want to take a look at the .story file to see if there is anything we can spot. Sometimes just needs another pair of eyes. 

Hi Ashley,

Back at work now as it is morning here!

I have checked every single slide in my module and all of them have the navigation buttons unticked and are set to use the default player. But before doing this I had deleted a series of slides I had kept in the file from a previous module as this module is nearly complete and I didn't need to reuse existing templates anymore.

I then did a preview of a few remaining slides, and amazingly they now are laid out properly. So I double checked the Player properties window and the navigation buttons are gone and the screen is laid out correctly now.

So I believe one of the slides at least from the set of templates I had kept on stand by in the file was creating a problem.

I am very grateful for your help as if this happens again I will know what to look for and where.

Again, one learns so much more by doing and meeting issues than going on a course ;o). Hence e-learning through scenarios, games, trial and error activities are so much more effective than tutorial based mainly e-learning.

Many thanks

Fabienne

Thanks Fabienne for the update and I'm glad that you were able to get it working as needed. As you said, sometimes it's just bouncing the ideas off of another person that is helpful so we're always here if needed. 

Your support is very much appreciated.

Many thanks again.