I've been incorporating scrolling panels in Storyline for a few years. I find them to be incredibly vexing. I find that even if the object I wish to insert into the panel is obviously narrower than the panel, it often won't display the 3 sets of dotted lines extending beyond the space which indicate that it's successfully dropped. I'll try 10-20 times - just doesn't work. I then delete all of it, start over and it works - sometimes. What are others doing to make this work?
Just had a successful moment - I'd been trying to align the drop object to the middle or the left border of the scrolling panel. This time, since the scroll bar is on the right, I aligned the right edge of the object with the left edge of the scroll bar. It worked. This time.
Sorry that you've run into such difficulty with this. You mentioned aligning dropped objects and I wasn't clear if you were looking to include a drag and drop within a scrolling panel or just dropping the items into the scrolling panel (call it post holiday fog still!). I haven't run into any difficulty this AM trying to recreate the behavior of dropping an object within the scrolling panel in general. I can see the alignment line to the left or right to match up with the outside of the scrolling panel and I could also use the options within the Format tab for the shape to "Align" it.
If you're able to capture a little screen recording of the behavior, that would be really helpful so that I could look at recreating it!
I've also used scrolling panels in Storyline 2 and had great success. The project I've been doing is taking jpg's of pages from a paper workbook (all 8.5x11) and dropping them into a scrolling panel that's sized the same as the project slides. I size the image to the width of the panel so the user has to scroll to the bottom of the page.
I sometimes add other images or text boxes on top of the original jpg and these will move with the image when scrolling.
All of this works without issue in Storyline 2
In 360 when I try to scroll the image in the slide view it won't scroll the image it simply moves the image position... and the position of anything I've placed on top. After that I can't scroll anymore as the scroll handle has nowhere to go anymore.
It will preview fine if I don't try to scroll in slide view. If I move it in slide view then the preview won't scroll either..
It's hard to explain so I've attached the same project created in 2 and 360
Hi Brian, thanks for including those files here! I opened both of them, and I'm not seeing an issue with the scrolling panel in Slide View of the SL360 version. Here's a Peek recording of what I saw on my end.
On January 26, we released an update for SL360 that included this fix: Fixed issue where the scroll bar in a scrolling panel would sometimes disappear while scrolling in the Storyline editor. Can you confirm that you're on the latest update for Storyline 360?
That was indeed the problem... I must have missed the update notice so I was still running an older version. Did the update and it's all working fine now
Yikes! We never want you to spend hours trying to wrestle with a Storyline feature. We're here to help!
Are you still having trouble placing your images? If so, please share the slide with us, and we'll lend a hand! Also, be sure to let us know what version of Storyline you're working with. 😊
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Just had a successful moment - I'd been trying to align the drop object to the middle or the left border of the scrolling panel. This time, since the scroll bar is on the right, I aligned the right edge of the object with the left edge of the scroll bar. It worked. This time.
Hey Pete,
Sorry that you've run into such difficulty with this. You mentioned aligning dropped objects and I wasn't clear if you were looking to include a drag and drop within a scrolling panel or just dropping the items into the scrolling panel (call it post holiday fog still!). I haven't run into any difficulty this AM trying to recreate the behavior of dropping an object within the scrolling panel in general. I can see the alignment line to the left or right to match up with the outside of the scrolling panel and I could also use the options within the Format tab for the shape to "Align" it.
If you're able to capture a little screen recording of the behavior, that would be really helpful so that I could look at recreating it!
I've also used scrolling panels in Storyline 2 and had great success. The project I've been doing is taking jpg's of pages from a paper workbook (all 8.5x11) and dropping them into a scrolling panel that's sized the same as the project slides. I size the image to the width of the panel so the user has to scroll to the bottom of the page.
I sometimes add other images or text boxes on top of the original jpg and these will move with the image when scrolling.
All of this works without issue in Storyline 2
In 360 when I try to scroll the image in the slide view it won't scroll the image it simply moves the image position... and the position of anything I've placed on top. After that I can't scroll anymore as the scroll handle has nowhere to go anymore.
It will preview fine if I don't try to scroll in slide view. If I move it in slide view then the preview won't scroll either..
It's hard to explain so I've attached the same project created in 2 and 360
Hi Brian, thanks for including those files here! I opened both of them, and I'm not seeing an issue with the scrolling panel in Slide View of the SL360 version. Here's a Peek recording of what I saw on my end.
On January 26, we released an update for SL360 that included this fix: Fixed issue where the scroll bar in a scrolling panel would sometimes disappear while scrolling in the Storyline editor. Can you confirm that you're on the latest update for Storyline 360?
Hi Alyssa
That was indeed the problem... I must have missed the update notice so I was still running an older version. Did the update and it's all working fine now
Thanks for the quick reply
Great to hear! Thanks for the update, Brian!
The nightmare continues . . . i am spending hours trying to just move images in and out of scrolling panels.
Yikes! We never want you to spend hours trying to wrestle with a Storyline feature. We're here to help!
Are you still having trouble placing your images? If so, please share the slide with us, and we'll lend a hand! Also, be sure to let us know what version of Storyline you're working with. 😊
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