Previous Button Function Inactive

Mar 17, 2020

I created a trigger for the learner to jump to the previous slide when the user clicks previous.  However, the previous function does not work.  What am I doing wrong?

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Judy Nollet

"Previous" does not mean "the slide that comes before this one if you're following a set path." It means "whatever slide you were on before you came to this slide." That might be "the slide that comes before this one" in a strictly linear course. But it could also mean just about any other slide if the navigation is unrestricted and/or includes branching.

I can't tell from your description exactly how your trigger is failing, but here are some other things to keep in mind:

  • Wherever you start, the "go previous" trigger won't work, because you weren't anywhere before the first slide you encountered.
  • If you want the PREV button (or other button) to always return to a given slide (i.e., keep slides in a specified order), then you have to adjust the trigger to jump to that specific slide. For example, the PREV trigger slide 3 would jump to slide 2, and the trigger on slide 2 would jump to slide 1.

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