The text for some buttons is sqewed whenever I set animation to Fly, and By Paragraph. It does not happen if there isn't animation, or if animation is treated "as one object." Is this a bug?
Thanks for sharing the file here. When I took a look I could see what you were talking about, and it looked like the individual text boxes were being animated a second time and some of those were not lining up. What I ended up doing on the "Product lines" layer was to hide the "text box" for each item - and then everything previewed normally.
Using the "eye" icon within the timeline allows for the text boxes to be hidden on the slide - I didn't want to mess with your file too much, but it looked like they were duplicating and therefore a text box laying over some other text - so you may be able to find those and remove them. (Image below is SL1 - but in SL2 they look similar, just more of a symbol instead of an actual eye.)
Thanks for sharing that here. The "sub" item is created when you apply the animation by first level paragraph or paragraph - you'd see something similar if you were to just place a bulleted list of text by itself and animate it - they'd all become their own items in the timeline so that you could move and determine when they actually appear.
Glad we were able to get this one working for you!
I using the trial version of SL2. For some reason after I create a text box with a bulleted list and change the box to sequence by paragraph the arrow to the left of "eye" does not appear. This worked perfectly in SL1
Am I missing something? Is this feature turned off in the trial version?
I just popped in to check this and still see the same behavior as was in SL1. Be sure that you have set your animation type and then set the effect to by paragraph.
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Hi Chadi,
Thanks for sharing the file here. When I took a look I could see what you were talking about, and it looked like the individual text boxes were being animated a second time and some of those were not lining up. What I ended up doing on the "Product lines" layer was to hide the "text box" for each item - and then everything previewed normally.
Thanks Ashley, I see that your fix resolves the issue. What do you mean by "hiding the text box?"
Hi Chadi,
Using the "eye" icon within the timeline allows for the text boxes to be hidden on the slide - I didn't want to mess with your file too much, but it looked like they were duplicating and therefore a text box laying over some other text - so you may be able to find those and remove them. (Image below is SL1 - but in SL2 they look similar, just more of a symbol instead of an actual eye.)
Okay now I understand. I only inserted a shape, not a shape and a text box grouped together, which is why I was initially confused.
Here's how to re-create the issue:
1. add shape
2. Type in text into shape
3. With shape highlighed, select Animation in the ribbon and choose an Enterance Animaiton
NOTE: Up to this point the timeline only lists one object, with no sub-listing
4. Under Effect Options, choose Sequence: By Paragraph
- As soon as this is selected, Storyline 2 creates a sub-item on the timeline. As a result, the ONE object is now treated as TWO.
To resolve issue: Navigate to Timeline, select shape, hit dropdown arrow to the left of "eye" symbol, and hide the second layer item
Thank you for the workaround Ashley.
For what purpose is SL2 creating a sub layer for the object on the Timeline?
Hi Chadi,
Thanks for sharing that here. The "sub" item is created when you apply the animation by first level paragraph or paragraph - you'd see something similar if you were to just place a bulleted list of text by itself and animate it - they'd all become their own items in the timeline so that you could move and determine when they actually appear.
Glad we were able to get this one working for you!
Hi Ashley,
I using the trial version of SL2. For some reason after I create a text box with a bulleted list and change the box to sequence by paragraph the arrow to the left of "eye" does not appear. This worked perfectly in SL1
Am I missing something? Is this feature turned off in the trial version?
Thank you.
Hi Bill!
I just popped in to check this and still see the same behavior as was in SL1. Be sure that you have set your animation type and then set the effect to by paragraph.
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