Slides navigating in the wrong order

Hi Beth!

Is the previous button triggered to jump to a particular slide, or is it triggered to jump to the "previous slide?"

If the button is triggered to jump to the "previous" slide, it'll go to the last slide you visited. This is similar behavior to a web browser's "back" button.

However, it sounds like you're stuck in a loop between two slides, and that definitely shouldn't happen. 

To get a better idea of what you're seeing, I'd love to take a closer look at your file. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.

It's just set to the previous slide and yes, it's going to the last slide visited. If I want it to be linear so that the back arrow goes to the previous slide in the list, not the last visited, I have to manually set every trigger?

Hi Beth,

Yes - you'll need to designate the trigger to Jump to slide X when the learner clicks. Otherwise, as Alyssa mentioned the previous button acts similar to your browsers' back button bringing the learner back to what they saw before. 

Hi All,
I have noticed exactly the same problem with my module, but not on every slide, only between slide 2 and 3 (during the first slide visit (2) player previous button works fine, when I navigated to the slide 3 and back to slide 2, the previous button navigated to the slide 3 instead 2). I have about 50 slides and only problem was on slide 2. So, the question is why only this particular slide? Have used the slide number instead and working fine.

Thanks for confirmation that this is a common problem/issue.

PB

Hi there, PB.  It's hard to say why only slides 2 and 3 were behaving this way without seeing your file.  Would you be able to share the original version of your project?  If so, you can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here.  I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting. 

I'm glad that using the trigger to jump to slide X is working the way you'd like, in the meantime!

Hi Crystal, thank you your quick respond.

On your request have uploaded my source file + link to the video simulation.

Thanks for your help.

Peter

Hi again, Peter!  I emailed you back specifically about your file.  I was seeing a couple of slides that identified specific slides for the Previous button, and a couple of slides that used the "previous slide" default.  The looping was happening because of that setup.

Feel free to reply to my email with specific questions!

Hi Crystal,

Thank you for your quick respond. 

In my understanding the previous button will only back us to the previous slide if we have slides put in order: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 etc.

If we will broken the above order by using one of our slide like a full size pop-up (with extra exit button), then we can experience the above problem.

Thank you so much for clarifying this for me. After years I know finally why I had a problem with the previous buttons placed on the master slide (fixed by using specific slide number: back to X, Y, Z)

KR,

Piotr

Hi Piotr.  Almost.  ☺️

The previous button using "jump to previous slide" will work as long as all of the slides are set up this way.  Because some slides were using "jump to slide X," like slide 1.6 in your project, it lost the history of the previous slides.  

In your project, you can either always use the default "jump to previous slide," or always change all of the triggers to "jump to slide X."  

Thank you so much for clarification.

PB