Screen freeze when jumping to a previous slide
Jan 06, 2015
Hello,
We've been having some trouble today with courses crashing when we click a 'previous slide' button.
Here's our set up...
1. The user is presented with a data entry box. Once they have clicked on it, a button appears (trigger: change state of 'button' from 'hidden' to 'normal') so that they can submit their response.
2. A new layer is shown, revealing feedback, with a button to proceed to the next slide.
3. When we then try to return to the previous screen, using a 'jump to previous slide' trigger, the course freezes.
We have managed to work around this issue by removing the 'change state' trigger from the data entry box in step 1. The 'submit response' button now appears whether the user has entered text or not.
This works okay, but we can't see why the trigger has caused this problem. We think it may be due to the .story file having been upgraded from SL1 to SL2.
What do you think?
Also, the 'type text here' text is very small when published. I can't seem to change this (although the user's text is normal).
I've attached a sample file.
Thanks,
Ross
10 Replies
Hi Ross,
I tested the file and you're right, it is not letting me return to the previous slide using the "Previous Screen" button. Are you able to attach the Storyline file? Otherwise it is hard to see why this might be happening.
Jesse
Hi Jesse,
Thanks for the quick reply. I've attached the story file here.
Best,
Ross
Hello Ross,
I checked your file, and the Go to 9.4 was not set up to jump, after adding that trigger, you can move forward and then back using the previous screen button. Can you test the attached file to verify?
Hi Emily
I work with Ross, and I'm sure he won't mind me jumping in here while he is on holiday.
Thanks for taking a look at the file. The "Go to 9.4" button doesn't really effect this issue. The screens Ross provided have been extracted from a scene. The "Go to 9.4" button in the original file is set up to take users to a completely different scene in the project, hence why the trigger was missing in the project file you've got.
I have downloaded your file and I still get the issue with the project freezing if I complete the interaction fully on screen 1, and then use the "Previous Screen" button to jump back to it from screen 2.
This seems to be a very, very specific issue with projects:
We tried various combinations here, such as having the learner returning to the base layer rather than the revealed layer, removing the additional trigger from the text entry box etc. These all meant that the "Previous Screen" button worked ok again.
It's clearly a bug and a very specific one. And, in our case, a rather time consuming one as we've just converted around 1,000 screens from SL1 to SL2 and at least 100 of them are affected by this issue.
Thanks
James
Hello James,
I was able to see the issue after letting the media and animations all play through. I did notice that the timelines were all set to over 900 seconds, and the trigger to jump to previous slide was not saving properly. You can click to edit it, but then it would revert back to being unassigned. I then tried to import the file into a new file and upon import, it crashed my Storyline. I tried a second time and the same thing happened. It seems the file itself may have been corrupted. You may want to reach out to our support engineers to see if they may be able to take a further look into the file itself.
Hi Emily. I have submitted a support case, as you suggested. We're not finding some of the same things that you are, so I think it's best to get them to take a look at it.
Thanks for your input. :-)
Thanks James, I do see your case and I will be following along to see the outcome.
Hi everyone, I know this thread is years old but was wondering if the issue was ever fixed?
I am having the same issue right now with exactly what James listed above, the slide seems to be corrupted in some way and crashes the whole course when I click on the custom 'back button' to return to the previous slide whether its in preview mode locally or when it is published and uploaded to our LMS.
The slide I am having a problem with comes immediately after a slide that:
It's really strange as it only seems to be malfunctioning on one slide.
I read loads up about suspended data yesterday as I had word from some of my users that the course wasnt saving their progress when they came back to it, so I spent the entire day stripping the course back and deleting unnecessary objects, states, layers, triggers and made sure that no slides are set to resume state. This seemed to fix the issue of the LMS not saving their progress but the issue with the corrupted back button still seems to be here.
Apologies for the long confusing explanation!
Thanks for any help anyone can offer,
Rebecca
Hi Rebecca,
I ended up rebuilding the affected slides from scratch. A bit of a pain, but it did solve the problem.
Hope that helps,
Ross
Hi Ross,
Thanks for your quick reply! I will rebuild the two affects slides in the hope this fixes it for me too,
Thanks again!
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