I've seen this brought up in a number of previous discussions but have not come across a resolution. I need the learner to be able to enter a specific text string, e.g. 1234, and then I want to trigger a new layer or slide. They should not have to press Enter or Tab or cause the field (hotspot) they're on to lose focus. Also, I don't want it to advance when they hit 4 if the entire string isn't correct. This is a simulation of how a private software works and I need to recreate it exactly.
I've seen a number of postings from others dealing with the same situation, but I haven't spotted a resolution.
Thanks for taking the time to share your goal with us.
To submit a text-entry response, it needs to lose focus either with a key press or by navigating outside of the text-entry field. This gives Storyline an indication that a learner is done typing their response.
JavaScript is likely perfect for this design. I'll open the floor to the coders in the community who may have set this up!
Thanks for your feedback, Katie. Given that others have had trouble with this, I do hope new features for triggers based on text entries are on the SL team's radar for future updates. Besides this particular situation, there have been several times when I could have really used it!
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Hi there, Joanne!
Thanks for taking the time to share your goal with us.
To submit a text-entry response, it needs to lose focus either with a key press or by navigating outside of the text-entry field. This gives Storyline an indication that a learner is done typing their response.
JavaScript is likely perfect for this design. I'll open the floor to the coders in the community who may have set this up!
Thanks for your feedback, Katie. Given that others have had trouble with this, I do hope new features for triggers based on text entries are on the SL team's radar for future updates. Besides this particular situation, there have been several times when I could have really used it!
This behaviour seems to be getting more common in modern software and web-based forms, so I would love to see this trigger as well!
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