Question About Copying a Slide with Multiple Data Entry fields
Dec 18, 2015
By
Tim Clifton
I am working on a project involved in doing different calculations depending on which of seven different contracts are being used. I completed one which works great. My thinking was that I could copy this one slide and then make adjustments for the other contracts. I understand that the naming of the data entry fields changes when you copy but what is odd is that when I publish and view most of the data fields do not appear at all and the functionality doesn't work (but it works fine on the slide that I copied from). Any thoughts on why this is happening and suggestions to most efficiently copy for want of another word the data entry functionality of one slide to others. I am using Articulate Storyline 2.
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Hi, Tim -- Can you please let us know if you are seeing the same behavior when you test your published output in the intended environment, as well? If you would like to share your file, you are welcome to do so here or you can use this form if you would like to send it through privately.
Hi, yes I am referring to how it behaves in the intended environment. I don't want to share this and it is very complicated as you can see from the screen captures below. The first one is the working one. I then copied this slide and thought I could then tweak it for the purposes of the next contract but as you can see a number of data fields are not displaying. In addition, I realize that it renames the data fields but not the variables of course. Obviously I could create each one from scratch if necessary but was wondering if there is a more efficient method. Thank you for any insights.
A bit more info on this. The idea is that the user inputs the hours for each day then clicks Calculate and it automatically figures out overtime amounts and total gross pay.
Hi, Tim -- Thanks for the additional information and if I am understanding what you are hoping to achieve correctly, you may find some suggestions of use on this thread that seems to be asking a similar question. Please let me know if that do will the trick for you, and perhaps others in the community can also chime in with some suggestions. :)
Thanks for the suggestion, but it's asking a different question. These different pages I am creating are independent of each other based on a type of contract. The intent is that they will be branched onto the right slide through a series of questions. One thing that I did see is that if you delete data fields and then control Z it re pastes the the data fields and I can then see them at least when published. However, it automatically renames the data fields which makes more work and given the complexity of this I may just create each one from scratch unless anyone has another suggestion.
Hi, Tim -- My apologies, but I not aware of other options I can suggest at this time, but if you would like to increase the base of exposure for your question, you would also be welcome to post over in the Building Better Courses forum, as well.
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