Sequence of triggers

Hi Julia,

You can do this through use of the Restricted function of the menu, even if you are not using the menu. From the Player button, go to Menu, and then choose the gear icon at the bottom, then choose Restricted for the menu. The effect is that the Next button will be disabled until the end of the timeline for all slides.

Hi David, thanks for the tip! It works now! :-)

Hi David, I have the same problem, but I do not have the option you mentioned. When I click the gear button then have an option to select 'slide advances: by user'. But even with this set up slide jumps to the next one automatically.

I do this on a slide by slide basis by setting the state of the Next button to Disabled at the start of the timeline and then setting it back to Normal at the end of the timeline. I then adjust the timeline to be roughly what a fast reader would want. For slower readers, the button is there when they finish. I create the two triggers once then just copy/paste to the slides I really want them to spend time on.

Agata,

The gear icon I mentioned is actually under the Player Properties/Menu. If your slides are advancing automatically, I would guess either that they are not set to advance by user (and you can select them all from the Story view and change that under Slide Properties); or you've got a slide trigger to go to the next slide at the end of the slide timeline.

Thank you both! I went with Steve's solution - for some reason changing it in properties was not working.
It works now with new triggers for the 'next' button.

Thank you!

I forgot to mention - I use Disabled instead of Hidden so that the Previous and Next buttons are still in their proper places. Hiding the Next button will result with users clicking the Previous button and then claiming that "the course is broken!".

100% agree. As a user it's annoying to have the buttons move around. Plus, I've noticed in the recent updates that there is no lag in disabling the Next button as there used to be.