Strange Menu behaviour

Hi Lee

is there perhaps an entrance animation on the 'offending' buttons?

Hi There is an animation on the button when the Menu slide loads but the last 3 buttons are duplicates of the first 3 buttons and no entrance animations on them. If I change the order of the buttons on the timeline this affects which buttons it happens to.

It may be todo with preloading as Storyline only loads two slides ahead and may not have loaded that section hence the delay.

Not sure about the state changes may be related to animations or could be triggers you are using

Might be easier for someone to help you if they can see your setup - can you upload the story file?

Would agree with Wendy here

The Menu is the last slide in that scene then it jumps to one of the 6 scenes. There are no animations or triggers (other than Jump to). To get the second 3 buttons I simply copied the first 3 and change the "jump to" destination so cant see what additional triggers/animations they have picked up

OK never done this so will upload it in a minute

I am uploading the story file

Uploading story file

Did it upload OK?

I don't think there is anything wrong with the way it is built it could be a preloading issue, looks like the slide is resetting before jumping which is odd.

so you think this is how articulate works and nothing I can do? its not a showstopper but it just looks a bit odd

I haven't seen it before, and Wendy may spot something.

Yes, it does look odd, may be worth raising a support case.

ok will raise a support case and let you know what happens. Thanks for looking at it. Much appreciated all of you :)

Lee can you explain why you used 'text' variables instead of T/F - wondering if there is something funky there.

Doing a quick rebuild to see if it still has same behaviour - I may be way off base but doesn't hurt to give it a go.

Sure no worries. I used a text variable as I had more than 2 states ie normal state (first time), visited state and completed state

Hi Lee

trying to upload the story file but having trouble...stay tuned

Hi Lee

see attached - not sure if I've made it harder or easier for you ;-)

I removed your variables and set triggers to change the state of each menu item to started when the user clicks on the topic in the menu.

I created 7 T/F variables (T1_end-T7_end) all default False

Then I added in (for testing) a final slide to each topic. I created a trigger to adjust a T/F variable to True when timeline starts on final slide of the topic.

Then a trigger on main menu to change the state of topic item to Completed when timeline starts on the main menu on condition that T1_end = true.

I haven't taken into consideration your Topic 1.1 etc.

Hope this helps or gives you an idea.

Thanks Wendy. I will take a look but I am really trying to understand why I am getting this behaviour. Is it something I have done or is it articulate

Hi Wendy. I have taken a look. I can see the problem is no longer there which is good. However in my project I am using 3 states ie normal at the start, visited once they have been into the topic and completed once they have reached the end. Since your 2 state works does this mean it relates to variables? Again I am confused as to why it works for the first 3 buttons

I think I have fixed it. It may be as simple as setting the revisiting property on that slide to "reset to initial state". Why that should make a difference I am not sure

Hi Lee!

Looks like you are working with Victor in support (00838265) and he is currently testing your file.

I will follow along as well.

Just had a reply from support. It does appear to be a bug as they can replicate the issue on new files. They are going to work on a fix.

I will post when I get a further update but again thank you to all who looked at it and for your workarounds/suggestions.

Thanks for popping in and providing an update Lee.