I want to preview only a few slides, rather than only one
or the entire scene's slides. How can I
preview selected slides?
Additionally, one of the slides I want to preview is a
transition slide into the next scene.
How can I see if that works without having to preview the entire
project, which has way too many slides to have to wait for, when I just want to
view the functionality of a "next" button?
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I am aware of those 3 drop-down options of the Preview button. I was hoping someone had a work-around those very limiting options. How does anyone test navigation from slide-to-slide then? Keep all their scenes limited to a certain, small number of slides? How about scene to scene transitional slides - how does anyone test those? And still - how does anyone test a hyperlink in one scene that may link to another scene? Must they wait every time for the two minutes it will take to load all 99 slides, and then go through all those slides - just to get to one particular slide they are trying to review its functionality? That seems extraordinarily short-sighted. If you have to edit that one slide, you have to wait for the entire project to load to test it again (since using the single slide will not allow you to transition beyond that slide). How frustrating!
Parashuram is correct. And yes, many of us would like to have the ability to preview X number of slides, or a slide region, for all the reasons you've noted above. Would you please join us in submitting a feature request?
Yeah, it's annoying. I'll just add that I do three things that reduce the frustration described above:
First, I break apart especially long presentations. For example, each scene is its own .story file. When I need everything published together, I import the little files into the big file. This makes the file sizes more manageable while I'm editing. It also means that a coworker and I can work on adjacent scenes in a presentation without interfering with each other.
Second, when I'm testing a multi-slide mechanic, I do it in a new presentation (so I can repeatedly preview only a few slides rather than an entire scene). Once I have it working, again, I import it into the file of record.
Third, I publish to edit. Particularly as a production nears completion, I'll render it and load it on one screen while I make edits on another screen. This "published preview" doesn't update with the changes I make, obviously, but I can make a lot of tweaks to the .story file without having to wait for a re-render after every tweak.
Tx for making suggestions that may help others. I've tried a variety of methods as well, but in the end, for me personally, it ends up being too much work to move things in and out of scenes temporarily. Kind of need to figure THAT time vs. the loading time w/out doing all those steps. And as Ken has alluded to, there may be a link, for example, in Scene 4 to Scene 1...
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Hello Ken,
In Storyline, you can not define particular number slides to be include in preview.
All you can do is preview single slide, Scene or entire project.
Thanks,
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I am aware of those 3 drop-down options of the Preview button. I was hoping someone had a work-around those very limiting options. How does anyone test navigation from slide-to-slide then? Keep all their scenes limited to a certain, small number of slides? How about scene to scene transitional slides - how does anyone test those? And still - how does anyone test a hyperlink in one scene that may link to another scene? Must they wait every time for the two minutes it will take to load all 99 slides, and then go through all those slides - just to get to one particular slide they are trying to review its functionality? That seems extraordinarily short-sighted. If you have to edit that one slide, you have to wait for the entire project to load to test it again (since using the single slide will not allow you to transition beyond that slide). How frustrating!
Hi Ken,
Parashuram is correct. And yes, many of us would like to have the ability to preview X number of slides, or a slide region, for all the reasons you've noted above. Would you please join us in submitting a feature request?
Yeah, it's annoying. I'll just add that I do three things that reduce the frustration described above:
First, I break apart especially long presentations. For example, each scene is its own .story file. When I need everything published together, I import the little files into the big file. This makes the file sizes more manageable while I'm editing. It also means that a coworker and I can work on adjacent scenes in a presentation without interfering with each other.
Second, when I'm testing a multi-slide mechanic, I do it in a new presentation (so I can repeatedly preview only a few slides rather than an entire scene). Once I have it working, again, I import it into the file of record.
Third, I publish to edit. Particularly as a production nears completion, I'll render it and load it on one screen while I make edits on another screen. This "published preview" doesn't update with the changes I make, obviously, but I can make a lot of tweaks to the .story file without having to wait for a re-render after every tweak.
Hi Greg,
Tx for making suggestions that may help others. I've tried a variety of methods as well, but in the end, for me personally, it ends up being too much work to move things in and out of scenes temporarily. Kind of need to figure THAT time vs. the loading time w/out doing all those steps. And as Ken has alluded to, there may be a link, for example, in Scene 4 to Scene 1...
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