Trigger and Variables do not reveal last slide

Apr 20, 2020

Hi Community! Hope you are all well!

I have a project with a slide that serves to navigate to other slides using triggers. The learner clicks on an object and two things happen, the object they selected changes state to visited and you are navigated to the corresponding slide. At the end of the timeline of the new slide, the learner clicks another object to return to the original slide and selects another object and so on until the 5 required slides have been visited and you are returned to the original slide.

I added a true/false variable for each of the 5 slides. Then I added a trigger on the original slide that says jump to a completion slide when all the objects have been visited and all the slides have been played shown via the variables.

The problem comes when returning to the original slides after the other 5 slides have been visited. It doesn't jump to the completion slide until I click again on the screen.

I added references to the original screen and all the variables changed to true, and all the objects are in a visited state. What am I missing?

Sincerely,

Ruth

4 Replies

Len Hackenbroch

almost 4 years ago04/20/20 at 10:46 pm (UTC)

Hi Ruth,

Can you not set a trigger that says if all 5 T/F variables are True when timeline starts jump to slide X?

You shouldn't need to include the visited states in that trigger, those visited states can just be so the learner knows what they have and haven't seen so far.

Hope that helps?

Len

Walt Hamilton
Hero

almost 4 years ago04/21/20 at 1:23 am (UTC)

Note that to be sure the timeline starts when you visit the main slide, it has to be set to Reset to initial state on revisit. Of course, if that happens,objects lose their Visited state.

The way around that is to change the states when the timeline starts, depending on the variables, which you already have and know how to use.

But that raises another problem - if you create a trigger to set an object to a built-in state, like Visited, then you create a new problem. The built-in slides have triggers already built-in, and if you create triggers to do the same thing, you run a very real risk of serious conflict. The way around that is to use a custom state (I call it Completed), and when the slide timeline starts, a trigger sets each of them to Completed if the variable says they have been visited.

You are on the right track, and only a step or two away.