Scrolling Panel Containing Dynamic Text

Hi Antony,

Thanks for the reply. I have solved the issue now.

As you mentioned above, the problem was that the text box was smaller than the scrolling pane.

Thanks,

Matt

No problem Matt - glad to hear that you are up and running again.

This is a similar issue to the comments that I placed on:

http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/29592.aspx

It would appear that the scrolling panel does not always work properly for variables.

The example that Antony posted (above) only seems to work on my computer, if you pad out the text box with enough text to ensure tha it is lager than the scrolling panel at authoring time.

This seems to be due to the need to set the text to Resize shape to include the variable while also having to be large enough in the story file.

I have attached a modified example(without padding text) to show what I mean:

1. If you enter a small number of characters say AAAAAA it is Ok
2. if you enter a large number of charcters say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBBBB CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the text auto reduces even although it is set to resize shape.

To overcome this you must pad out the text content with enough text to ensure that it is larger than the Scrolling Box

Perhaps this is hard to follow but try the modified version and input the suggested strings & you will see what I mean

This seems to be a bug perhaps?

Doug

Hi, did you find any solution for this?

I'm using a Scrolling Panel in my Slide Master for using on several different places, but the text keeps on being resized when a lot of text is added. 

And the scrolling panel don't autoupdate the position to the beginning when new text is added.

David

Hi David,

You can include a scrolling panel on a master slide, but you'll only be able to add items to it when you're on the slide master layout itself—you won't be able to add items to it from individual slides. 

Hi Ashley, 

Yes, that is what I'm currently doing.

The problem is when I try to add a lot of text to the scrolling panel.

I attached a articulate file that shows the problem.

David

Hi David,

Thanks for sharing the file. I see that you've also posted in this thread too, and since the variable is being changed on the individual slides, it seems to not be working with the scrolling panel on the master as previously described you can only add the items to the slide master itself, not the individual slides. 

Hi.

This is really bad news for me, I have a project with 150 slides and need to have a scrolling panel with different text information on each slide. What do you suggest is the best way for doing this? Creating 150 different Scrolling panels would take to much time.

/David

Your text area is to small if you increase it it will fit the text, I don't think this is a great way to do this.

Duplicating a slide and copy and pasting would be better, Using this method it is always going to be a compriomise

Thanks Phil for offering some advice to David here. 

Hi Heros,

Am also facing the same problem above answer is adding scroll bar for variable content.

The problem is I need to use single text box for all slides, wherever above 4 line content we are adding there only the scroll bar should be appear balance slide not required.

Any help, or clarification that this is not possible, would be appriciated.

Thanks,

Samy

Hi Periyasamy and welcome to Heroes!

In David's previous situation he had tried to add the scrolling panel to the master slide, not the individual slide where he needed it. Are you experiencing the behavior while on the individual slide and adding the scroll panel? Is it possible for you to share your .story file here with us so that we could take a look? If you'd prefer to share it privately, you could also send it along to us here. 

Hi Ashley,

I have attached my file please check asap.

Note: once you publish the course, please click on the page indicator button

Thanks

Periyasamy

I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how exactly the scroll panel works. 

I would like to do the following:

1) put a text box  which contains %textVar% inside a scroll panel.

2) Change the variable "textVar" with what ever text I want

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:

- When the text extends past the textbox "limits" I do not want the text to resize(get smaller). Instead I would like the textbox to expand itself vertically.

OR

1)I would like to put text variable %textVar% directly into the scroll panel (not a text box). And then,

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:

-when the text hits the "limits" of the scroll panel, then the scroll bar will appear on the side.

As of now storyline does not seem to support this.

Patch/plugin/update? any way to make this work?

By the way, I tried to right click > "Format Shape" > "Text Box" 

and under "Autofit" i selected "Resize Shape to fit Text"

However, in realtime (while running the story in the browser), this does not seem to work. It just resizes the text (makes text smaller) when there is alot of text

I have this exact same issue (wanting scrolling to appear on a large amount of text, but not if it doesn't need it). I notice the last reply was over a year ago. My text box contents are being concatenated from static text and strings of different lengths, so could be anywhere from 6 - 20 lines long, but if I make the text box 20 lines high, then I have unnecessary scroll bars if I only have 6 lines of text.

Has anyone made any progress with this?

Hi Nigel! This thread is a bit dated. Would you be able to share your .story file for us to take a look at?

Hi Leslie, attached is my story. As you'll hopefully see, the right hand text box (which isn't in a scrolling panel because it wasn't working) is filled with a mix of static and dynamic text triggered by the radio button sets. What I'm hoping to achieve is that if the text becomes too big for the text box (e.g. by pressing buttons 3, 6 & 9), that it adds scroll bars, rather than resizing the text. But the way text boxes inside scrollable panels work currently seems not to be able to handle this. If you make a tall fixed height text box and put it in a scrolling panel, then that works (but you then have redundant scroll bars on the occasions you don't fill up the text box).

Hi Nigel!

Sounds like you have weighed all of your options.

If you are wanting the scroll panel to be present for the text, then you will have to make the text box larger to accommodate the adjustment. This will cause the seemingly redundant scroll bars on content that does not fill the box.

So, either the method that you are using now or the redundant scroll bars are your options.

I'm quite sure that's not what you wanted to hear, but I hope that is helpful.

Thanks Leslie, it's helpful to know I'm not missing something!

Glad to help Nigel! I really do like the concept of what you are doing with your course though :)

This issue should be fixed in my opinion. You can't populate a text box with dynamic text, (contained or not into a scroll pane) keeping its font size as original, and i couldn't find any workaround for this...

Hi Zio,

Currently it would need to be a feature request as the variable reference text is not dynamic as mentioned. You are welcome to also share your thoughts in the form of a feature request here. 

I am struggling with the scroll boxes and tiny text, myself.  

I am creating an experience where users can read through a narrative on the left of the screen and then take notes (stored in variables) in three different tabs on the right side of the screen.  They are then able to carry this "notebook" with them as they progress to the next stage.  Because I am not aware of how much text each person will enter, I have placed the notes (via variables) in scroll boxes. I had no problem with text entry boxes until someone tried to make a list (pressing the enter key) instead of writing it out as a paragraph.  Now, the notes are shrunk down infinitesimally small when I try to display the them. Could you please help?