I am creating classes for students in North American and the Caribbean and Latin America areas. Soon these classes will expand to the EU as well. I am looking for a way to (within the class itself) hide or show information pertaining only to the area the student is from. My hope is to create the class once rather than having to have separate classes/lessons so as to avoid having to update multiple classes as information changes. Any ideas?
One option is to have a intro/menu screen that includes a region selector (could be a dropdown list). Based on the student's selection (which is captured in a variable), you could then hide/show region-specific info.
Only comment that I have is that links to examples would have been really helpful. I was able to find what I needed by searching for drop-down menu (which led me to variables which led me to YouTube videos). I'm certainly not expecting others to do the work of learning for me, just thinking of total newbees (like me).
Glad that was able to assist you - and there are a number of examples across the forums, but since variables can do so many things, I'm not sure we have a "master example", but always feel free to ask here in the forums and we'll be glad to help you track one down.
Hi all, I remember an add for storyline mentioning you could export all the text and get it translated then reimport and have all the slides in the other language.
Can you export all the sound clips as closed captions, translate them and reimport?
Exporting out all the audio or sound it's something we have built in yet, but it sounds like that's important for your translation needs? It's good insight for our Product team to have, so thanks for sharing!
Having each sound exported as Sound0001.mp3, Sound0002.mp3.... in a directory, then having those recorded in a different language and reimported would be a nice first step. In DIRECTOR all the sounds could be placed in a special file and the lecture used a menu to select which file was used for each language.
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One option is to have a intro/menu screen that includes a region selector (could be a dropdown list). Based on the student's selection (which is captured in a variable), you could then hide/show region-specific info.
That's how we do it.
Hi Jim! Looks like you are getting the assistance that you needed here, just let us know if you need anything further.
Thanks everyone! This really helped. I can see HUGE uses for variables in getting what I want to do done. Now it's all about practicing!
Only comment that I have is that links to examples would have been really helpful. I was able to find what I needed by searching for drop-down menu (which led me to variables which led me to YouTube videos). I'm certainly not expecting others to do the work of learning for me, just thinking of total newbees (like me).
Hi Jim,
Glad that was able to assist you - and there are a number of examples across the forums, but since variables can do so many things, I'm not sure we have a "master example", but always feel free to ask here in the forums and we'll be glad to help you track one down.
Hi all, I remember an add for storyline mentioning you could export all the text and get it translated then reimport and have all the slides in the other language.
Can you export all the sound clips as closed captions, translate them and reimport?
Anyone does multilingual projects?
Thanks
Hi Philippe,
Exporting text for translation is an option detailed here.
Exporting out all the audio or sound it's something we have built in yet, but it sounds like that's important for your translation needs? It's good insight for our Product team to have, so thanks for sharing!
Having each sound exported as Sound0001.mp3, Sound0002.mp3.... in a directory, then having those recorded in a different language and reimported would be a nice first step. In DIRECTOR all the sounds could be placed in a special file and the lecture used a menu to select which file was used for each language.
Thanks
Thanks, Philippe! Good intel for our team to have.
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