Slides are auto advancing without requiring the next button
Jun 14, 2013
This is my first project using Storyline and when I preview the scene I built, one it gets to the end of the timeline for each slide it auto advances to the next slide. I checked the player triggers and deleted the tirgger to move to the next slide once the timeline ends but it still advances when I preview it. I wasn't prepared to load the file yet to my LMS for testing. Any suggestions on settings I might be missing?
Is this just how preview works and it will translate fine into my LMS?
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Awesome Sylvia and thanks for the update! Glad you were able to figure it all out and it was an easy fix.
Thank you for this post!! Very helpful for me :)
Hello All - I am having this same issue. I have read though not only this string of replies but the others as well and I have found no solution. My imported PowerPoint is plain with no animations and my slide properties have all been set to "By User" (although I did not figure out how to set all slides at once) but in preview it still races through. This is my first one in Storyline but I have about 60 others ready to go. Any assistance would be great. I have opened a ticket and attached the file. Ticket 00783846
This trigger on the Master may be the culprit:
You Walt - Are my new best friend!!! That was exactly the problem and it works nicely now!!! After hours of frustration you hit the nail on the head. THANK YOU!!!!
Glad Walt got you situated here Bill! I'll let Victor know so that he can close your case.
I imported a file from PPT and made sure all slides are set to "advance by user." Regardless, all the slides that were originally in PPT are advancing automatically. Any help greatly appreciated.
Go to Story View and select By User in the Slide Advances pane:
The neat thing about Story view is that you can select multiple slides and change them all at once.
Hi Walt. Thanks for the suggestion. I did that and still no luck. It seems like Storyline is holding on to the "auto advance" setting from the original PPT file, even though I have made sure the slides are all set to "Advance by user". Very frustrating :-(
I don't want to be disagreeable, but the picture is from the file you posted. and when I changed it for the first scene, they quit advancing. Be sure you select all the slides before changing them.
I should have been clearer. After your first post I went in and fixed the couple of slides I had missed. The buttons now sort of work. The Next button will work once the slide has reached the end of the timeline, and the Prev button doesn't seem to want to work at all.
Those are symptoms of locked navigation.
Go to Player -> Menu, and you can change it:
This tutorial will help explain the options:
https://community.articulate.com/series/4/articles/customizing-the-menu-in-articulate-storyline-2#navigation
Hi everyone,
I know this discussion is a bit old but I'm having the same issue. Is it possible to remove the auto advancing feature in Articulate Presenter, I don't have the Storyline.
Thanks,
Omar
Hello Omar and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
You can control this from the Slide Properties window.
By default, slides in Presenter courses advance automatically upon completion, but you can change it so learners control when slides advance. To change this behavior for an individual slide, do either of the following:
You can find our full documentation here.
Thanks a lot Leslie!
This was really helpful.
Omar
Glad that's what you needed Omar :) Good luck with your project and thanks for letting me know!
Thank you so much!! This helped me today!
That's great news Nadia! Thanks for chiming in to share.
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
Thank you, Christine! I have been trying to figure out why my triggers weren't working. This was very helpful!
I'm glad that this conversation was able to help you as well, Tricia. I appreciate you chiming in to share and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊