Problems using layers to hide/show parts of slide

Hi Brandon,  Could you repeat that?  Kidding. So, I think part of the issue may be resolved by using rectangles all placed on your base layer with states "Normal" and "Hidden" to hide/show text on the slide using the rectangles' states (instead of putting the rectangles in layers).  In your triggers, you can specify the current state of the shape (Normal or Hidden). You can set the initial state of the rectangle to either Normal or Hidden. You may want to move your individual audio files, however, to the individual layers, and just show the layer corresponding to the audio to be played (leave intro audio on base layer). Not sure if I understood the other points, but this may be because I'm ready for my afternoon nap!  Cool profile picture--did you create it?

Richard, thanks for your response.  I forgot that shapes have a built-in hidden state, thanks a lot for that.  I think that'll be a more elegant way of handling them.

Building this survey tool full of these slides is my first time using Articulate, so I don't quite understand what the benefit would be to adding the audio to different layers.  Can you elaborate please?

As for my profile pic, I  grabbed that off of google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fight+brain+cancer&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSiwEaiAELEKjU2AQaBAgACAMMCxCwjKcIGl8KXQgDEievGawZ8QTZAcgO2gHvBD7KDskO6SzrLN8z0iyOJKYk6CygN94ziiQaMI0aNvzWWLq-KXdfc8CH9Ja_1ZBu-dG_1tGc1vHkJg4uO3Hus0S11ZhiHqQrzFxx3LhgwLEI6u_1ggaCgoICAESBPc0MBcM&sa=X&ved=0CBoQwg4oAGoVChMIuNbZ6tnvxwIVAaMeCh3fVAIf&biw=1680&bih=953#imgrc=_

Peace.

I think that you're doing great for your first--very ambitious--project.  Moving your audio files to separate layers may not be your best bet--I was trying to give you an option based on the amount of interactivity you have occurring on one slide. Clearly labeling your items in the timeline may also ease your dev troubles, also (instead of staying with the generic labels). I know this helps me a lot. Any time I can creatively simplify the amount of interaction on one slide (and still maintain the learning objective for the slide) the better--for my dev and for the end user experience.  Kind of like...juggling. You can keep it interesting at three juggled items instead of six and still impress.

Ah, I see, thanks.  Believe me, I welcome any advice on how to handle all of this simultaneous logic. Unfortunately I'm not even done yet; the project lead wants me to have the Yes/No buttons highlight while the initial sentence is having it's audio played, included when audio is repeated (the audio is for low-literacy users).  I'm trying to get the current logic solid before I tackle adding that in.  Then, once everything is working properly...I have to duplicate the logic on 12 other screens, all of which have 3 or 4 responses instead of two.  Tedious isn't the word.

Hi, Brandon -- Welcome to the community (and by the way, your profile pic is really neat)!

It looks like Richard is assisting you here, and hopefully others in the community can share design suggestions, as well. You are also welcome to post over in the Building Better Courses forum for additional input. Best of luck with your project! :)

Thanks, Christie.

Any word on when features such as copying entire sets of trigger logic will be possible?  Storyline is amazing, but there are some pretty glaring user experience improvements that would make it so much more powerful.

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If you duplicate a slide, the layers and all triggers are duplicated. Sometimes it is easier to replace videos and objects than triggers.

Warning: nor matter how you copy them (even if there were a built-in mode) they would have to have their targets names updated, except that triggers that point to layers still have the same layer available, and do not need to be updated.

Thanks Walt.  I was hoping there was a way to copy the sometimes 10+ triggers I have on one object, for example, by copying that object and switching it out with a different object.  Is that possible?

As for copying the slide, I am aware of that method, but the slides on this particular project have dozens of triggers on them, so it wouldn't save me much effort due to having to delete the unnecessary triggers.

If the object is a circle, you can make it an oval, or change its color, but I don't see how you could replace it with a rectangle, for example.

On the other hand, if it is an image from a file, you can Change Picture, and it will keep its triggers.

That's answers my question, then. Many thanks.

Thanks so much for your input here, Walt. 

Wow--this discussion has evolved--Brandon, you'll need to select the shape you want to change, go to the Format tab and choose "Change Shape".  This will keep all of your triggers in place as well.

Thanks for popping in to assist as well Richard :)

Thanks Richard, that'll be a big help.

Glad that Richard was able to assist you here Brandon. Thanks for popping back in :)