Seek Control Replay

Does it have to have audio or video on the slide in order for it to replay?

Hi Mike!

The behavior of the Rewind button is determined by the “When revisiting” property for each slide. There are three options for this property:

• Automatically decide: This is the default choice, and it means Storyline will decide automatically whether to rewind the slide or not. Here's the logic: If the slide contains just simple objects and/or audio but no interactivity, Storyline will rewind the slide to the beginning of the slide’s timeline. However, if the slide contains any interactive elements, such as buttons or any other object that includes a visited or selected state, Storyline will not rewind the slide.
• Resume saved state: This option will always prevent the slide from rewinding.
• Reset to initial state: This option will always force the slide to rewind.

To change the “When revisiting” property for slides in your story, take a look at this tutorial.

If you'd prefer to simply remove the Rewind button, you can do that, too. Bear in mind that removing theRewind button will also remove the Seekbar. Here’s how:

To remove the Seekbar / Rewind button from a single slide (or series of slides), uncheck the Seekbar box in the slide properties.

To remove the Seekbar / Rewind button from the entire course, uncheck the Seekbar box in Player > Features.

thank you!

No problem Mike!

Hi Lesly,

 you are perfectly right.

 This is what is expected by Articulate. But not sure it is by users :-)

 So, if it is not possible to Rewind, why the Replay bouton is always visible ? Anybody wants to click on it and says "it doesn't work, it's a bug" ! 

 First point I am to make a feature request to disable this button when it is not possible to use it (ie to rewind).  

 Second point, I am to make a feature request to allow the rewind even if "Resume saved state" or other equivalent state. Clearly we can go back to the begigning of the slide using the seekbar, but I (and a lot of people on the forum) don't understand why it is not possible to simply do that clicking on rewind.    

 I know that Articulate Team has given some reasons to that but it is not so logical and from my point of view it is very confusing and gives some limitations. 

I understand Eric and thanks for sharing those thoughts in a feature request :)

Have another quick seek control question. We have flash on our slides in the form of swf files, however they do not react to pausing and jumping within the seek control. In other words, the swf file does not stop when I hit pause on the seek bar.

Hi Mike!

Here's how to add interactive Flash (SWF) files in Storyline.

Follow up, if I insert all the swf files as videos how will that alter my file size of the SL? 

Thanks,

Mike

And will it change my resolution/quality?

Hi Mike!

I cannot speak to the size as this will be dependent on your file. As far as quality, some compression will occur. The goal is to preserve high quality at the lowest file size. Check out this post.