Previous button

The previous button at the moment is historic in that it returns you to the last viewed slide.

The trigger for this is not exposed, your best option if you need this is to delete the player buttons and add custom buttons on the slide

EEHK! That was my fear! Thanks, Phil! I will create some custom buttons.

I figured out that this was the only option as well. Boo.  It's entirely possible to build those buttons, but you have to constuct them on every slide - there is no way to create buttons that populate the entire course, is there? As well, the space in which the standard buttons reside is now just empty space - is there any way to modify the player to minimize that empty space if the standard next and previous buttons aren't being shown?

Why can you build different triggers for the NEXT button, though, and not the PREVIOUS button. Shouldn't be able to override the default action of both buttons?

Hopefully this willbe fixed in an update

Quick heads up:  Articulate Storyline Update 1 supports triggering the Previous button.  For more information on this update, see the link below:

http://www.articulate.com/blog/localize-content-with-articulate-storyline-update-1/

Thanks, Brian.  I am glad the issue has been addressed.

Unfortunately it's still broken.

If you tell a slide to go to a specific previous slide then that sets the "previous" slide to the slide with the specific go to. 

Then when you "go to previous slide" it goes to the last slide you were on instead of the numerically previous slide.

Example:

http://centerforbusinessexcellence.net/blog/previous_bug/

Storyline file:

http://centerforbusinessexcellence.net/blog/previous_bug/previous_bug.zip

Hi all,

I must be missing something.  I have a Storyline version that saids "Update 2: 1212.1412".  So, I am assuming that I should already have the update 1 discussed above.    But when I add a trigger for the Previous button to go to a specified slide, it still goes to the Previous slide visited.  May I know what I need to do to get the built in "Prev" button to go to the previous slide in the order of the tutorial? 

Thanks

Hi Alice,

While in Story View, select the slide you wish to modify. Then, add a trigger to that slide.

For the trigger use:

Jump to "Name of Slide/Scene"

    When the user clicks the previous button.

If this doesn't work, try to make sure that there aren't any conflicting triggers already placed on the slide for the previous button.

I'm attaching a very small, very quick example, so you can see how to accomplish this. 

If this doesn't work for you, are you able to post your project's .STORY file here, so I can take a look?

Hi Christine,

What you suggested works!  Thanks for your help.  It will be really nice for the next update to provide user an option to choose what behaviour the Prev button should have.  That way, we don't have to add a customized trigger to every slide.  But it solves the problem for now.

Thanks

Alice