It is easy to change the order and numbering of slides within a scene. Go to Story View. Click and Drag your slide to the place where you want it... wait for the little blue arrow to appear before you drop it. When you drop the slide, it will be renumbered.
The reason that you are having difficulty drag/dropping to renumber your slides is that they are already connected with next-button triggers. It appears that those triggers are over-riding the drag/drop.
I was able to renumber all of your slides in scene 5 by deleting the Jump to Slide triggers. Then the slides renumbered nicely by dragging and dropping.
I'm not sure why renumbering the slides is important. You can arrange the slides any way you want in the menu.
You can turn off the numbering in the Menu. In the Player, choose Menu, then the Gear icon. Uncheck the option to number the items.
Oh, please keep your next button triggers! What I was saying is that if you remove them (temporarily) you can renumber your slides by dragging in Story View. Then you could reinsert the triggers.. But, the only reason to need the renumbering is a desire for order in the project. The learner will never know the number if you turn it off in the Player.
I have a similar issue in that I've moved slides around successfully, but when I print the Word version (my Storyboard), they print in the numbered order...not in the usage (story view) order. My Next triggers are all correctly linked, and they all appear correctly in story view...but the numbers are still off...so it prints out of order. Is breaking all the existing links and then relinking everything in the project the only way to resolve this?
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Mark can you upload the story file here so we can see what your talking about?
Hi Kevin,
Not sure where to upload it.
Mark
click the paperclip icon and browse to the story file. once you do it it does not appear but it is there.
Mark,
It is easy to change the order and numbering of slides within a scene. Go to Story View. Click and Drag your slide to the place where you want it... wait for the little blue arrow to appear before you drop it. When you drop the slide, it will be renumbered.
Hi Meryem,
I've attached the storyline file of the course. I tried moving the slides but they are not cooperating.
Thank you,
Mark
Mark,
The reason that you are having difficulty drag/dropping to renumber your slides is that they are already connected with next-button triggers. It appears that those triggers are over-riding the drag/drop.
I was able to renumber all of your slides in scene 5 by deleting the Jump to Slide triggers. Then the slides renumbered nicely by dragging and dropping.
I'm not sure why renumbering the slides is important. You can arrange the slides any way you want in the menu.
The problem was that the slides were showing up in the menu numbered in the wrong order.
So is best practice not to use next-button triggers and just use player navigation?
You can turn off the numbering in the Menu. In the Player, choose Menu, then the Gear icon. Uncheck the option to number the items.
Oh, please keep your next button triggers! What I was saying is that if you remove them (temporarily) you can renumber your slides by dragging in Story View. Then you could reinsert the triggers.. But, the only reason to need the renumbering is a desire for order in the project. The learner will never know the number if you turn it off in the Player.
Ok, I think I have it now. Thank you very much.
Great to hear Mark. You can also edit the menu items to appear however you want within the Player window.
I have a similar issue in that I've moved slides around successfully, but when I print the Word version (my Storyboard), they print in the numbered order...not in the usage (story view) order. My Next triggers are all correctly linked, and they all appear correctly in story view...but the numbers are still off...so it prints out of order. Is breaking all the existing links and then relinking everything in the project the only way to resolve this?
Hi Heather!
Have you tried the reset story option?
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