I'd like to create a software demo/simulation so that the comment, with the clue saying "Click here..." will appear before the person clicks. This is a great way to teach people to use a software by guiding them through for hands-on experience---not just for knowledge checks. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do this with Storyline. Am I missing something, or can the parameters be set up before recording? And/or can they be changed globally, after recording, to have the timing of the comment come in before the click/trigger. It's very labor-intensive to make this change for every trigger. Any ideas?
Funny you should mention this. I was working on a project yesterday where I wanted to display the Hint Caption after X number of tries. And I was thinking on creating a Screenr for my solution. In the meantime, here are steps for a solution for you and for what I did.
To start the hint caption immediately
Double-click on the Show Layer Hint Caption in the triggers panel
Change it so the layer shows when the timeline starts
Display the Hint Caption after "X" number of tries
Create a number variable for the number of attempts
On the Try Again layer, add a Trigger to the Try Again button that adds 1 to each attempt
Add another Trigger that shows the Hint Caption layer when the attempts is greater than or equal to X number of tries (I used 3). The reason you need greater than is that even after the "last" attempt, the Learner may not get it right.
I also needed to add a trigger to the base layer of each slide to set the Attempt count back to 0 when the timeline started
Hi Kristin! Unfortunately no. You may be able to accomplish this from Storyview though (still individually though), which keeps you from having to pull up each individual slide (might save you a few clicks).
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Hi Carla,
Funny you should mention this. I was working on a project yesterday where I wanted to display the Hint Caption after X number of tries. And I was thinking on creating a Screenr for my solution. In the meantime, here are steps for a solution for you and for what I did.
To start the hint caption immediately
Display the Hint Caption after "X" number of tries
Thank you! This information will be very helpful.
Carla
i have been trying to do this as well. I began to do this, but I have 200+ slides. Is there a way to change all at once or set a default?
Hi Kristin! Unfortunately no. You may be able to accomplish this from Storyview though (still individually though), which keeps you from having to pull up each individual slide (might save you a few clicks).
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