Text Entry on Slide with Seekbar navigation

Dec 20, 2018

Darlene Green
By Darlene Green

Hi all, hope you can help me again.  I need to create a slide that starts by playing a video, then the video pauses and a text box and text entry box come up. The student should enter text into the text entry box, click a continue button that I placed on the slide, and the text and text entry should disappear and the video should resume.

I've currently got this set up with the text box, text entry box, and continue button on a layer. The layer appears automatically at a cue point, with a setting to pause the base layer (and then it automatically resumes when the layer closes).  

However, when I start the slide, I can initially use the seekbar to move forward on the slide, but once it gets to the layer, and I close the layer, any attempt to drag the seekbar takes me back to the layer with the text and text box on it.  In effect, the student is not able to seek to anything past the layer. I really need students to be able to navigate around on the slide, so how can I program this slide so that I can get the functionality I need?

Thanks!

2 Replies
Alyssa Gomez
over 5 years ago12/20/18 at 3:51 pm (UTC)

Hi Darlene,

It sounds like the layer is opening anytime you click on the seekbar somewhere past the cue point. We've seen the same behavior in Storyline, and we've logged it as a bug. I'm sorry it's affecting your project!

The good news is, there may be a way to get around this bug! Do you want the learner to visit the layer only one time? If so, try these steps:

  • Open the variables window, and create a True/False variable called Layer. Set the default value to False.
  • On the text entry layer, add this trigger: Adjust variable [Layer] to the value of True when the timeline starts on this layer.
  • On the base layer, add a condition to the "show layer" trigger: Show layer when the timeline reaches the cue point on the condition that the [Layer] variable is False.

These triggers will ensure that the layer is only opened once. If the learner goes back to the base layer and clicks on the seekbar, the layer will not open again. Let me know if that will work for you!

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