Can someone please point me to a support article or a tutorial on creating a lightbox?
(I often feel like I'm hunting for my car keys or my smart phone when I am looking for information on the Forums - it's likely right in front of me, but, for the life of me, I can't find it.)
The best thing about this forum is like standing in your kitchen and saying, "Keys? Keys, where are you?" And then all of a sudden they just appear as if they were right here all along.
Simply put there really isn't much to a Lightbox slide other than simple trigger setting.
1. Create a slide you wish to be your Lightbox slide
2. On the slide(s) you want to point to that lightbox add a trigger to the button you want to point to it:
- Action: Lightbox Slide
- Slide: [slide number]
- When: User clicks
- Object: [whatever button you use]
If this Lightbox will be accessible from various slides in the course, I often create a separate Scene just to hold Lightbox slides. I can point to them from anywhere and they stay nice a neat in one spot.
Donna - thank you. One of the links contained what I needed; three words: common, trigger, lightrbox.
Kevin - thank you, too, for also getting me where I needed to go. I so miss having access to an online index. Often, just looking at the search results for keys can jog my memory - in the bowl on the hall table! (When you are only 1 month in to Storyline, you don't necessarily know that the right path is trigger > lightbox, so, you search and search and search on lightbox and get really frustrated; if you're me, that is.)
The lightbox slide will behave just like any slide. Assuming you have inserted your object "screenrecording" on the slide itself that you set as a lightbox, it should work.
1. Insert your screenrecording in one slide
2. Create a button that will trigger to lightbox the slide that contains the screenrecording.
What Peter said. Think of lightbox slides as just a different visual presentation of the content. You still have all the same access and features just like any normal slide.
@Kelly, while searching this forum might be limited don't forget the "Add to Favorites" feature. This is one way to have quick access to threads that you find useful and you may need to reference again.
Another option what I do often (and know a few others here do as well) is use Diigo or any other bookmarking tool. For instance if you wanted to save this thread, copy the link and then in your bookmarking took you can add additional keywords such as "lightbox."
Going forward you can just save specific threads and add keywords. Then when you need to reference any threads that you've assigned the keyword, "lightbox" to they'll all be listed neatly.
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Hello Kelly,
There are several tutorials that I found really helpful.
Check these out:
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=eo6tt2t3rzqk
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=o8zjc2801s7v
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=nfml9wacp671
Hi Kelly,
The best thing about this forum is like standing in your kitchen and saying, "Keys? Keys, where are you?" And then all of a sudden they just appear as if they were right here all along.
Simply put there really isn't much to a Lightbox slide other than simple trigger setting.
1. Create a slide you wish to be your Lightbox slide
2. On the slide(s) you want to point to that lightbox add a trigger to the button you want to point to it:
- Action: Lightbox Slide
- Slide: [slide number]
- When: User clicks
- Object: [whatever button you use]
If this Lightbox will be accessible from various slides in the course, I often create a separate Scene just to hold Lightbox slides. I can point to them from anywhere and they stay nice a neat in one spot.
Hope that helps.
kevin,
do you know if it is possible to play an entire screen recording in a lightbox slide?
Hello Peter,
I have tried this and you can.
Donna - thank you. One of the links contained what I needed; three words: common, trigger, lightrbox.
Kevin - thank you, too, for also getting me where I needed to go. I so miss having access to an online index. Often, just looking at the search results for keys can jog my memory - in the bowl on the hall table! (When you are only 1 month in to Storyline, you don't necessarily know that the right path is trigger > lightbox, so, you search and search and search on lightbox and get really frustrated; if you're me, that is.)
@ Donna; Can you explain how?
Hello Peter,
The lightbox slide will behave just like any slide. Assuming you have inserted your object "screenrecording" on the slide itself that you set as a lightbox, it should work.
1. Insert your screenrecording in one slide
2. Create a button that will trigger to lightbox the slide that contains the screenrecording.
See attached.
Hope this helps.
Donna
What Peter said. Think of lightbox slides as just a different visual presentation of the content. You still have all the same access and features just like any normal slide.
@Kelly, while searching this forum might be limited don't forget the "Add to Favorites" feature. This is one way to have quick access to threads that you find useful and you may need to reference again.
Another option what I do often (and know a few others here do as well) is use Diigo or any other bookmarking tool. For instance if you wanted to save this thread, copy the link and then in your bookmarking took you can add additional keywords such as "lightbox."
Going forward you can just save specific threads and add keywords. Then when you need to reference any threads that you've assigned the keyword, "lightbox" to they'll all be listed neatly.
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