Restricted Menu based on a variable of a selected role

Aug 04, 2015

Hi All,

I have a course that separates out into two different roles - manager and employee. The employee will see certain slides in the course pertaining to their role as an employee. The manager will see most of those same slides but with some additional slides specific to being a manager.

Since most of the slides are being reused I didn't want to create two separate courses. So I have it set up so that once they choose their role, they will see all the slides that pertain to them and the role they have selected. This has all been created in Storyline.

However, I have run into one obstacle. My client wants the Menu to be available to all the users. But this means that all of the slides will be showing in the menu bar - both for manager and for employee.

My question is if there is a way to restrict the menu so it only has available what pertains to their role they selected. I would love it if there could be different menus specific to each role but even if the employee menu just had the manager items grayed out so they couldn't access it, that would be okay too. Creating my own menu isn't really feasible because there are 5 modules each with 20-30 slides. So hoping to use the built in menu in Storyline if possible.

Any ideas if this is possible to set up using Storyline 2? Is it possible using variables and perhaps some javascript? Or is there another workaround that I may be missing?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Carrie

6 Replies

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 8 years ago08/05/15 at 2:01 pm (UTC)

Hi Carrie!

If you are setting up your course navigation with branching based on the roles as you mentioned, you should be able to display the menu and I would advise that you set the menu to Locked so that the user could not navigate to those slides. I do not believe that you could gray out the certain items though.

Outside of this, hopefully someone in the community will be able to assist with your design need.

over 7 years ago09/12/16 at 12:15 pm (UTC)

Hi Carrie,

I was wondering if you have found the solution, as I currently need to solve a similar issue with the menu.

over 7 years ago09/12/16 at 12:25 pm (UTC)

Unfortunately we did not find a solution. We ended up putting Facilitator Only in parentheses after each menu item that was specific to the facilitator but anyone viewing the class could access any of the menu items.

After using that method for some time, we finally ended up breaking them into two separate courses. A bit more work because we have two courses to update but better for the learners.

Thanks,
Carrie

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Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 7 years ago09/12/16 at 2:11 pm (UTC)

Hi Anna and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! Glad that Carrie was able to pop in and assist you here.

Trace Symonds

almost 3 years ago06/22/21 at 4:23 pm (UTC)

@Leslie - this post is 5 years old. Are there any updates to the system that would hide menu items for roles based upon Variable selection?

almost 3 years ago06/23/21 at 8:14 pm (UTC)

Hi Trace!

Thanks for checking in! We don't currently offer this customization to control the view of the menu items based on the value of a variable.

If this a feature that you'd like us to review again, don't hesitate to submit a feature request!