Refresh Master Slide (Progress Bar/Meter) Delay
Dec 11, 2019
I have a progress bar set up using variables that is located on a master slide. It works well except it does not dynamically update, due to a delay in refreshing the slide. I have a version I check against a light boxed version that does. For example, if going between 5-10% it will delay until you go Previous or Next before correctly updating the state. I highly suspect this happens because the master slide does not have time to update the state, until navigating one further (next or previous). Can I manually set a variable on the master slide to push a refresh at the beginning of the timeline? This master slide is used to display the progress bar at the bottom of every slide so it is nice to have the most up to date reading.
Any idea on how to refresh the master slide so it can reference the variable without having to go forward or back one slide? I'm on Storyline 360. It would appear that I can't simply link back to the slide in question since it's a master slide. Product feature request?
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On Master Slide:
On main slide, when you intend to change the progress, just add adjust variable trigger on progress variable and the progress bar will update accordingly. In my file I increase progress variable by 5% each time so you will see the bar changing after clicking twice.
Thank you!!! This worked like a charm. I thought I had tried this with the adjust variable option but apparently not. I had it set to trigger at the start of the timeline. Silly me. Thanks again for the quick fix!
Does this also apply to Light Box slides? I changed it to variable change instead of when timeline starts and it doesn't seem to be triggering the state change?
Lightbox slide is just like any other slide. It will work on it if you apply the same Master Slide layout to it. See updated version.
I couldn't get the lightbox version of my progress bars to work unfortunately. The main one on the master slide works however. I didn't have my lightbox versions linked to the master slide as they are different progress graphics but use the same 'progress' variable. The only way I could get the lightbox versions to work was change the state when the timeline starts. When I try to change on variable it doesn't work like the master slide did. I have all the variables set up the same but on their respective individual slides. I think possibly because I have multiple versions of the progress variable attached to different images and states.
I'm also having trouble retaining the progress bar's status on the master slide when going back slides. It doesn't display the same progress but shows what it originally was on that slide. Is their a way to retain the progress percentage when going back?
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This worked really well for what I was trying to do using a master slide in addition to light box slides (that didn't use the master slide for count purposes).
Sorry for not responding to you, I was off. I am noticing a problem with lightbox while the main slide works ok and updates progress. It is somehow that when lightbox slide is loaded, it does not run any Master Slide triggers which is strange. I need to look into it.
Glad the video helped you out.
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