I have 7 buttons on a slide that branch off to 7 different slides. I have a slide trigger set to jump to slide 1.15 when the states of all 7 buttons are "visited". Regardless of the order that I click the buttons, when I click the last button I go to slide 1.15 instead of the branching slide. Do I need to use a variable instead?
I tried a different approach using variables - removed my trigger based on states = visited. Created a variable "alldone" set to 0 initially. "Alldone" adds 1 each time the timeline ends for one of the branching slides, up to at least 7. Then I set trigger on original slide to go to slide 1.15 when "alldone" is >= to 7. Now all 7 branching slides are being opened, but the trigger to go to slide 1.15 is not occurring.
Hello Michele - Sounds like it could be trigger order or when you have these variables set to adjust. Would you be able to share the .story file so that we can take a look?
Hey Michele - Looks like you were super close to the result you were looking for. I think adding a simple action item to jump to your slide 1.15 would assist. As in updating this trigger to jump to slide when user clicks textbox if alldone = 7 vs just having it set for when the variable changed - as that happened on a different slide. I also switched (for ease of testing and to be sure the slide 'counted') the alldone to increment when the slide started vs finishing. Your updated file is attached.
Thanks, Leslie. Your solution does work. But there's nothing on the slide for the user to know to click on the textbox. So I added a button "continue" that's normally hidden state, but when variable "alldone" >= 7, the button should appear, and there's trigger on the Continue button to take them to slide 1.15. I've run preview a few times, but the Continue button never changes state to normal, even though I can see the variable is >= 7.
Hello Michele - Did you visit each of the sections? Your trigger is dependent on the user visiting all sections and the variable being greater than 6 from what I'm seeing. It works for me, the Continue button displayed, and I moved to slide 1.15 as you mentioned. This was from preview. Were you having an issue in a different environment?
I visited each section, and saw the variable increasing. It also started to act odd for me, after 3 or 4 buttons, when I clicked the Previous button instead of going back to slide 1.4, it showed a blank grey screen. I was previewing the full project. I checked that all the slides had the Previous button triggered to go to 1.4 so not sure what's occurring.
Aha, I had to extend the timeline for slide 1.4. I think the time was done by the time I was getting to all the 7 buttons. Now I'm seeing the Continue button.
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I tried a different approach using variables - removed my trigger based on states = visited. Created a variable "alldone" set to 0 initially. "Alldone" adds 1 each time the timeline ends for one of the branching slides, up to at least 7. Then I set trigger on original slide to go to slide 1.15 when "alldone" is >= to 7. Now all 7 branching slides are being opened, but the trigger to go to slide 1.15 is not occurring.
Hello Michele - Sounds like it could be trigger order or when you have these variables set to adjust. Would you be able to share the .story file so that we can take a look?
Yes. The branching slide is 1.4.
Thanks for sharing Michele - downloading to take a look now.
Hey Michele - Looks like you were super close to the result you were looking for. I think adding a simple action item to jump to your slide 1.15 would assist. As in updating this trigger to jump to slide when user clicks textbox if alldone = 7 vs just having it set for when the variable changed - as that happened on a different slide. I also switched (for ease of testing and to be sure the slide 'counted') the alldone to increment when the slide started vs finishing. Your updated file is attached.
Thanks, Leslie. Your solution does work. But there's nothing on the slide for the user to know to click on the textbox. So I added a button "continue" that's normally hidden state, but when variable "alldone" >= 7, the button should appear, and there's trigger on the Continue button to take them to slide 1.15. I've run preview a few times, but the Continue button never changes state to normal, even though I can see the variable is >= 7.
Did you want to share your updated file for me to take a look Michele?
Added it to my previous post.
Hello Michele - Did you visit each of the sections? Your trigger is dependent on the user visiting all sections and the variable being greater than 6 from what I'm seeing. It works for me, the Continue button displayed, and I moved to slide 1.15 as you mentioned. This was from preview. Were you having an issue in a different environment?
I visited each section, and saw the variable increasing. It also started to act odd for me, after 3 or 4 buttons, when I clicked the Previous button instead of going back to slide 1.4, it showed a blank grey screen. I was previewing the full project. I checked that all the slides had the Previous button triggered to go to 1.4 so not sure what's occurring.
Aha, I had to extend the timeline for slide 1.4. I think the time was done by the time I was getting to all the 7 buttons. Now I'm seeing the Continue button.
Very good Michele :) Glad that it's working for you as well now.
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