I have a few slides that have a "fill-in-the-blank" question on the base layer. The user is supposed to write his/her answer in the box and hit submit, which is my own button and not the one that comes with the Player. However, on some of the slides, it skips over the answer, which is provided in a side layer, right to the next slide. I cannot figure out why it does it for some of the slides and not for others. Any suggestions?
On a quick glance on this page "1.68 - Alcohol use before or during work hours"I've noticed that the submit button doesn't have a trigger, therefore the layer will not show.
I do see you've got it when text changes. Having it set up in this way means the user has to click out of the text input field for the answer pop up to appear. Maybe changing it to trigger when the user clicks submit might fix it?
Thank you for your reply, Stephen. My dilemma is that I want users to actually have to write something in the box and not just click submit. If I understood what you meant correctly, I had to take the variable change restriction off of the text entry box. It worked, but now users weren't forced to write a response.
I know it works for some slides (e.g., 1.69 - Employment of illicit drug users), but not for others. It just doesn't make sense.
mmmmhh. What you could do is hide the submit button until the user clicks on the text entry field. Its hard to gauge how long the user will be typing for, so its either when the user click on the Text Entry field or when a user clicks out.
Even though they could click on the text field and then click submit without typing anything at least they are heading to the right place.
Another option is to delay the trigger so the submit button shows 5s after the user has clicked on the text field.
When a user clicks out of the text field then it assume you have finished thats why the pop up works when the user clicks out, there is no way of knowing once they've clicked in what the user is typing or for how long. They might stick a couple of characters in and stop for a bit so you can't really gauge when to pop up your answer. I've not look see if you can trigger it on any key press then as soon as a character is typed in the submit button will show.
If you take a look at your course, each of these slides work as you want if you do NOT utilize the submit button, just clicking outside of the text box once a value is entered. It seems that when you are hitting the undefined submit button now, the layer is appearing and it is hitting 'next' on the layer all at the same time. I think Stephen has great solutions, not workarounds.
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Hi Nicole,
On a quick glance on this page "1.68 - Alcohol use before or during work hours" I've noticed that the submit button doesn't have a trigger, therefore the layer will not show.
I do see you've got it when text changes. Having it set up in this way means the user has to click out of the text input field for the answer pop up to appear. Maybe changing it to trigger when the user clicks submit might fix it?
Thank you for your reply, Stephen. My dilemma is that I want users to actually have to write something in the box and not just click submit. If I understood what you meant correctly, I had to take the variable change restriction off of the text entry box. It worked, but now users weren't forced to write a response.
I know it works for some slides (e.g., 1.69 - Employment of illicit drug users), but not for others. It just doesn't make sense.
mmmmhh. What you could do is hide the submit button until the user clicks on the text entry field. Its hard to gauge how long the user will be typing for, so its either when the user click on the Text Entry field or when a user clicks out.
Even though they could click on the text field and then click submit without typing anything at least they are heading to the right place.
Another option is to delay the trigger so the submit button shows 5s after the user has clicked on the text field.
Oh, I like the idea with a delayed or hidden submit button. Thank you so much!
No worries :-) Locked layers until a user completes a condition is the way forward :-)
Glad that Stephen was able to assist you here Nicole :)
I'd still like to know what the actual issue is, but it is a great work around. Thanks again.
When a user clicks out of the text field then it assume you have finished thats why the pop up works when the user clicks out, there is no way of knowing once they've clicked in what the user is typing or for how long. They might stick a couple of characters in and stop for a bit so you can't really gauge when to pop up your answer. I've not look see if you can trigger it on any key press then as soon as a character is typed in the submit button will show.
That's a great idea too. Maybe I'll mess with this in my next design.
If you take a look at your course, each of these slides work as you want if you do NOT utilize the submit button, just clicking outside of the text box once a value is entered. It seems that when you are hitting the undefined submit button now, the layer is appearing and it is hitting 'next' on the layer all at the same time. I think Stephen has great solutions, not workarounds.
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