Show number of slides viewed

Agreed, it would be nice to have access to some basic global variables.  Have you submitted a feature request for this yet?  http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature

I did over a year ago... I suppose I should submit another request.

Hi Bill and Brian,

Our team had a recent discussion on different system variables and accessibility to users. As such we've updated our documentation here and included below:

We want every feature in our software to work well. With that goal in mind, we've decided not to document Articulate Storyline system variables that could be accessed via JavaScript triggers at this time.

Storyline isn't currently designed to expose system variables for user interaction. As a result, JavaScript triggers that reference them could interfere with course playback.

We value your feedback and want to better understand your needs, so we can build even better software. Help us plan for the future. Send us your feature requests with specific system variables you'd like to see and examples of how they could be used.

Hope that helps clarify - and definitely sending the feature requests will be helpful. 

I submitted a second request for this feature. Knowing the number of slides, and which slides, have been visited is very powerful in creating custom menu interaction. I have solved this by creating a Boolean variable for every slide along with a counting variable, but that is a lot of work. 

Thanks Bill for sending along the request and if you're able to share a copy of what you've set up so far, that may be helpful for others here in the forums and always appreciated to have more examples. 

Hello

I second this request, asmy company is trying to build a custom menu for our courses. in the HTML5 player it is possible to retrieve the slide status for each slide, all at once with javascript. Unfortunately this is not possible on the flash player.

Hi Walter,

If you'd like you can also submit your feature requests here and those go to our product development team. You may also want to reach out to Bill using the "contact me" button on his profile to see if he's able to offer some ideas or suggestions on what he was able to set up. 

Thanks for the quick response! I'll go ahead and do it :)

I have built a custom javascript solution to do this. You need a variable (I called it viewed) to store the slides viewed, and a variable to store the number of slides viewed. The script will do the rest. 

var player = GetPlayer();
var id = document.getElementsByClassName("slide-transition-container")[0].getAttribute("data-reactid");
var viewed = player.GetVar("viewed");
if (viewed == "") {
  viewed = [];
};
  if (viewed.indexOf(id) == -1){
  viewed.push(id);
};
result = viewed.length;
player.SetVar("numberViewed", numberViewed);
player.SetVar("viewed", viewed);

The script gets the unique slide ID from the html, and stores it in an array, then gets the length of the array.

Hi,

I just want to share how I did in showing a number of slides viewed. (No Javascript Needed)