"Return to slide" rather than "Jump to slide" ?
Sep 23, 2014
I haven't been able to put this into a search that will give me results, so I'm asking it of the forum (probably been asked before).
I want to create a resource scene of various safety videos, the slides of which can be called individually by the main scene. When the video finishes, I want to return to the calling scene at the point of departure.
I know how to jump to a slide without resetting it to initial state, but I will not know which slide has called the video when that video slide ends, so I don't know where to "jump to" when timeline ends.
I think I've seen references to a "Return to slide" or "Return to scene" trigger on the web, but I do not see how to enable it in Storyline v5. Am I missing something? Or is this a feature that has been removed for some reason (if it ever actually existed)?
Any help would be appreciated.
11 Replies
HI Stephen,
Welcome to the community
First, an FYI that Storyline 1 is now at V6. This support page has a link to the download for the update and to the release notes.
Regarding your question, the Previous button in Storyline always returns Learners to the last viewed slide. It sounds like all your videos are being launched from a main page. Learners will click on a video link, and jump to the scene/slide where the video resides. If this is the case, what should happen is that clicking the Previous button will return them to the main page.
Or, perhaps I'm misunderstanding...wouldn't be the first time!
Quite right. I had been overlooking the obvious when branching to a single slide.
I was thinking of a solution that would solve both branching to a single slide, and branching to a scene with its own navigation. If the resource being called had a sequence of slides, the Prev button would surely not return one to the calling scene. Or does Prev distinguish between Previous slide, and Previous scene?
I'm a newbie. I appreciate your patience in teaching me the basics.
Hi Stephen,
Tx for clarifying. What I would do in that case (and again, I may be misunderstanding, so just say so!) is to create a Home button so Learners could return to the main menu from any slide.
I put something together, since it's easier sometimes to walk through it than to conceptualize it in your head.
There are 4 scenes in the attached:
Main menu, with access to the other 3 scenes.
The other scenes.
Each scene has 2 slides, with a video image on the slide (a stand-in for a real video)
Each slide has a home button on it.The home button has a trigger to jump to the Main Menu.
You CAN create this button on one slide, and copy and paste it onto all the other slides, and that may be what you want to do for now. Sometimes when you're new you don't want TMI!
In case you do more information, here's what I did. I actually placed the button on the Slide Master for the Blank slide layout. To see it, you'd click View >Slide Master. Then click on the Blank Layout.
BUT (there's always a but, isn't there)
The button won't work if it's on the Base Layer of the Master slide, so you'll see I've placed it on a new layer.
AND in order to get that to work
I placed a trigger on the Base Layer to show Layer 1 when the timeline of the base layer.
That's a LOT if you're new
Anyway, would that accomplish what you're after?
Thanks for all the help. I can see the benefit of your solution - very elegant.
I'm trying to accomplish something a little more complex. I have a main scene which has buttons to jump to 5 other scenes. From any slide in any scene I want to be able to pop-up a video and return to the slide that was left. I can do this with normal jumps if the video is contained on one slide, but if there is navigation in the target, I can only accomplish it with lightboxes.
Here's an image of my story:
I was kind of hoping there would be a "return to scene" function with the option to resume scene in saved state. Since I would not know which scene was active when the user jumped to the safety video, it could not be just a "Jump to scene".
The course is intended to provide safety instruction to railroad employees by giving them simulations of track activities, and letting them pop-up specific video instruction of how to line a switch correctly, or get on/off moving equipment etc. These would be meaningful to the user at any point during the course, so they are just invoked by a click on a persistent video button.
Now you know what prompted my query in the first place.I'm sure I'm missing an easy solution, but I can't think of one. Your option to jump to the main menu would not let the user return to a specific point in a specific scene the way i want.
But it's still very elegant!
Thanks.
Hi Stephen
On your slide master create a layer for your safety video with a button on the base layer to show the video layer. This will then be applied to all of your slides, allowing the video to be opened and closed without leaving their place in the scene.
Blair
Hi Stephen,
Sorry I once again misunderstood what you needed ;(. Hope Blair's solution is working for you. Tx, Blair!
This is an older thread but I am trying to figure out a solution to the same problem. I don't want to use layers. Is there a way to capture the "name" of the slide the user is currently on, so that I can pass that as a variable to my next slide, and then finally program a button to return to the "variable"? Thanks. -Jim
Hi Jim!
You're right, this thread is a bit older, but I'm happy to help!
First off, here's more information about using slide numbers in Storyline 360.
Are you comfortable sharing your file so I can take a look? You can do that by using the "Add Attachment" button on this discussion. If you prefer to share the file privately, you can do so by using this link for our Support Engineers to take a look. Either way, we'll delete the file after testing.
Also have this problem! Did you share a solution with Jim, @Lauren? Is it something that could be shared publicly?
My specific case: 5 content scenes of 5 slides each, all accessed from a menu scene. Menu button on every slide, so users can jump to menu from anywhere. Currently, each menu button simply links to the first slide in a scene.
Even when the slides are set to resume saved state, if a user clicks on 'menu' on slide 4 in a scene, and then returns to the scene, they need to click through the 'Complete' layers in 4 slides before getting to the 5th one. A bit of a pain.
Ideally, the trigger for each menu button would not be 'go to slide X'. Instead it would be 'go to the first not completed slide in scene Y / from a range of slides X1-X5'
Naturally, this can be achieved with a lot of variable settings, but that's quite a pain to do. Is this possible in some easier way?
Hi Simon, thanks for following up!
I'm not having luck finding a support case for Jim regarding this discussion, so we'll want our support engineers to take a closer look at your file if possible. If you can share it in this discussion or privately here, we'd be happy to dig into this with you!
Thanks, I'll send the support case.