Slide not generating in preview

Oct 20, 2022

Kim Baker
By Kim Baker

Hi All,  I have a problem with a slide.  I used a template kindly provided by the e learning heroes but played around with it.  I want to be able to have the right and left buttons disappear when you reach the end of the stepped animation.  I  thought I could use an "ïnterects" command.  I inserted a small red circle into the centre of the screen with the command that when the last picture in the group interests with the circle the button on the left is hidden.  The problem is that when this trigger is implemented the whole slide wont preview.  It comes up as a white screen.  If I remove the trigger, the screen will preview fine.

I would appreciate any advice?

 

Cheers

Kim

9 Replies
Jose Tansengco
over 1 year ago10/21/22 at 11:23 am (UTC)

Hi Kim,

Looks like you shared the project file without the problematic trigger, since I was able to preview and publish it on my end without any issues. Here's the published output of the course. 

The red dot is visible, but it has no trigger associated with it. Can you share which trigger should be associated with the red oval in order to properly observe the issue? 

Jürgen Schoenemeyer
over 1 year ago10/21/22 at 6:17 pm (UTC)

I see the problem, if you use an element of a group for the intersect test, the result is a complete white slide

result:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b6038f81-709e-49ae-989f-d4d6c20097fc/review

if I change the trigger to check intersect with the group

result
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/a07288a9-e5be-4431-9997-835ff4a5cc5e/review

open a support case

https://articulate.com/support/contact/360-teams

and send them my renamed version (-> Attachment) - it's better to debug and understand the error

and a link to this post

Walt Hamilton
over 1 year ago10/22/22 at 4:14 am (UTC)

Jürgen is right, the groups are the source of your problems.

There is an old saying in the theater: "Anyone who puts kids or animals on the stage deserves what happens to them." That means that no matter how well-behaved, or well-trained you think they are, at some time they are going to revert to their true nature, and you can only hope it doesn't happen during a performance.  The SL correlation is: "Anyone who uses groups deserves what happens to them." That means that no matter how well-behaved or how well-trained you hope they are, groups don't play nicely with anything, and especially not states, clicking on, and triggers. Sooner or later, you are likely to have problems with them.
 
Groups don't work in SL.  Take it from someone with lots of negative experiences, you can have groups, or you can have triggers and states that work, but not both.
Check the Without Group slide in the attached sample. If you like the way it works, here are the changes I made:
I selected the group of pictures, right-clicked, and exported them as an image.
I deleted the group, and inserted the picture from a file.
I ungrouped the next and prev images, and deleted the symbol. I clicked the rectangle, and typed the < and > symbols, resizing them to get what I wanted. (Selecting a shape and typing places that text on the shape, but as part of it, not as an additional object.)
Then I wrote a little note to tell the system where it was in the list of pictures. Programmer-type people call those notes variables.
You can read the triggers to see how I used the note to keep track of when to stop moving, and you already know how to create the motion paths.
Any questions, ask.
Kim Baker
over 1 year ago10/22/22 at 11:20 pm (UTC)

Wow thank you so much!  I will now sit down an go through how you have set it up and learn how to do this myself.  Sometimes using the templates causes me more grief than when I build stuff from scratch but I love getting the ideas from them.  You will probably get a question or two I am sure!

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