Resetting slide to original state

argh!!!  So easy.  Thanks!

Is there any way to update every slide so it resets to initial state, or would we have to select this for every slide we want to reset to initial state?

Go to Story View, open a Scene, highlight top slide, then CTRL-A, and set "Properties for Multiple slides" on a scene-by-scene basis.

Bruce

Excellent, thanks Bruce!! (:

Hello. I have a project that the properties on the slide must be set to resume saved state (it has looong speech that the user needs to listen it only once and I should not change that properties. Is there a way or command to set on a button that would reset the slide if I want to?
Thanks...

Hi Marko,

Yes there is an easy way to replay an audio file by using Triggers.  Simply make a button titled "Replay" or something to that effect, and add a "Play Media" Trigger to start that audio file over again when the user clicks Replay.

Hope this helps!

R

Hello!

Would you please help me! I would like to make a button, which will restart every slide. But the problem is that these slides have audio also. How could I repeat both audio and slide in my project?

Looking forward to any helpful answer)

Thanks a lot

Hi Yana and welcome to Heroes! 

It may be a bit to set up, but you could add a button titled "replay" or similar to each slide and add a slide trigger to it to jump to slide number X when clicked (set it to jump to the same slide it's on) and that would try it as a "revisit" to the slide. You'll also want to set your slide properties to reset to initial state. 

Hi, everyone

Another question from me is: how  I can show to users how many slides or blocks are up to the end of the project? May be you have a designed idea? Or you might show me your ideas in the attachment. Thanks a lot!!

Thanks a lot! this information helped me to solve this issue!

Hi Yana,

If you're looking to include some indication to users where they are in the course, you may want to review the examples shared in this thread on custom progress bars. 

"Go to Story View, open a Scene, highlight top slide, then CTRL-A, and set "Properties for Multiple slides" on a scene-by-scene basis."

Bruce

Dear Bruce,

It is bugged for question banks (The properties for multiple slides thing"), only works for ordinary slides in a scene.

To be more especific, when you select all the slides in a question bank , and open the "property for multiple slides" window, it apply the changes only to the first slide of the bank after you click "ok", leaving the others unchanged, despite of them were all selected.

Is there a way to make this change directly on the scorm files? 

Can't imagine someone doing it again and again evrytime he edits/includes questions in the question bank. 

Waoooh!!!..thanks alot people

Hi Matthew

Should this work for essay/text-based slides also? I want users to have the option to re-do a quiz (which contains survey-type, text entry questions also) but when they choose to do quiz again the text they originally put into text entry box is there.

'Reset upon revisiting' doesn't seem to clear this text.

Thanks

Sue

Hi Sue,

For essay questions, they're treated as survey questions and therefore don't have the built in "try again" functionality as they're not graded. If you'd like the user to return to the slide and revisit the question and be able to answer in again, in addition to resetting the slide properties you may want to look into resetting the text entry variable as well - just to force it to be blank upon a revisit. Christine explains this a bit further here with an example that you may want to take a look at.

Hope that helps!

Hi Ashley

Thanks, this worked perfectly.

I have put the trigger to clear the text box, as per Christine's example above, under the Next button on the "Thank You" layer and one thing I discovered is this 'force blank' trigger must be the first trigger under the object. For example, if there is a Hide Layer trigger or similar, the force blank must come before this.

Probably obvious but it took me a few attempts to figure out why the text box wasn't clearning ... might be helpful to another user

Thanks again

Sue

Trigger order is something we all likely learned the hard way.

It is described a bit further here in case that helps in the future!

Thanks for posting this.

I was having trouble setting the 'Reset to initial state' to multiple slides from the Story view because the scenes were collapsed.

Glad this older thread helped you out Mark - and let us know if you need anything else. 

If the slide is reset to it's initial state--buttons, layers, etc. displaying like they did upon the first visit--does that also mean that any variables that were adjusted when buttons were clicked and layers were shown are also reset?

Hi Jay,

The variable value would only be reset if it was adjusted based on a timeline element such as when an objects timeline started. If you adjusted it by clicking on a button that is not undone by revisiting the slide. 

Matthew, this is not working if i want to refresh tabbing order when i revisit the slide.

Do you have any other way to resolve this issue?

Hi Vishal,

Are you having difficulty with the custom tab order you've set not working as expected on a revisit? Can you share a bit more about what you're experiencing in terms of where the tab order returns to and how you've set up your slide(s)? If you'd like to share one of the .story files here we're happy to take a look at it.