Story View Question

Sep 19, 2012

I am doing a assessment test at the end of a module. All the questions are multiple choice simple, no response just jump to the next question when you hit submit. My question is this. for some reason in the story view, after slide 5 it does not keep going down (the story view window). There is no arrow under it the slides just keep going horizontal across the top. It is weird because all the slides look a like as far as end of slide jump. Any thoughts as to why this is doing it? Even though it functions properly, it is just a pain to view and try to jump between editing slides. Thanks.

10 Replies

Peter Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago09/20/12 at 10:00 am (UTC)

Hey Randy,

Are you able to attach your .story file so we can take a closer look?

Anne-Marie Sutch-Stabio

11 years ago01/24/13 at 1:56 pm (UTC)

I am having the same issue. Was there a resolution to Randy's problem?

Randy Hill
Author

11 years ago01/24/13 at 2:04 pm (UTC)

I was not able to attach a Story file I was just to busy, I just ended up putting a trigger in to jump to the next slide when next is pushed.

Mark Blessington

over 10 years ago08/14/13 at 7:59 am (UTC)

I'm having this problem too. All of a sudden my scene is divided into two columns. The same division repeats in slide view. Hard to keep track of my slides with two columns.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 10 years ago08/14/13 at 12:42 pm (UTC)

Hi Mark,

Do you mean like this image? I was only able to get it to sit side by side by removing the trigger on slide one to jump to the next slide. Once I added that trigger back, they appeared one on top of the other as expected.

Mary Gill

over 5 years ago10/31/18 at 2:33 pm (UTC)

same issue - is there a solution?

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 5 years ago10/31/18 at 3:38 pm (UTC)

Hey Mary,

This thread is quite a bit dated, but it looks like Ashley explained what may be happening above.

If you need us to take a look at your .story file, feel free to share.

Erin Sadler

over 5 years ago10/31/18 at 4:04 pm (UTC)

Flipping heck this is an old one! Mary, further to that - if your first slide has no means of progression to the 'next' slide (i.e. no trigger telling it that IS the next slide), the next slide will not sit beneath it - it will jump up to the side, to indicate that it is no longer in the flow. Same as how scenes are displayed in Story view - if there is no link between them, they sit side by side. If one links to the other after it is complete, they will sit vertically. It sort of helps with branching (though it can be a real pain to see what's going on sometimes if you don't have straightforward linear navigation!).

Check the last slide in the left column has a trigger - the 'next' button by default has a 'jump to next slide on click', or you might want to tell it to do that when the timeline ends, or when you click something else if you've disabled the next button.

Currently it just doesn't know that you want it to go to the slide in the right column next - you need to tell it :)

over 5 years ago10/31/18 at 8:42 pm (UTC)

Ha, I know it’s old! I am new to SL and was thinking ‘no one has an answer to this!’ I did figure it out and added the needed trigger! Thanks so much for your help!

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