Trigger not behaving as expected: any suggestions?

Jun 09, 2014

Laura Heilman
By Laura Heilman

I am building an interaction based on the wonderful Travel Trivia Game [http://community.articulate.com/downloads/p/241165.aspx]

Everything is working beautifully, except the finish layer trigger to complete the slide (the equivalent to the Thanks for Playing screen).  

I created another interaction using the same model that works perfectly, so I am a bit stymied.  I figure I am overlooking something that I currently do not have the experience to spot.

All the markers have covers that go from hidden to normal as each layer is visited and the user clicks continue. When all covers are in the normal state, the finish slide layer should be viewed. All the trigger info looks correct - it just doesn't work.

Edited: I have attached the file.

Thanks!

Laura

3 Replies
Kevin Thorn
almost 10 years ago06/09/14 at 10:18 am (UTC)

Hi Laura,

I think I figured out what's going on.

Couple things:

  • All of your layers have two contradicting triggers. One to change the state of "Q1" to Completed. And one to change the state of "Q1" to Normal. Since both the Normal and Completed states are the same color, visually you're not seeing the difference. Also, in terms of how triggers fire, the first one to change to Completed is being overwritten by the next trigger to change it to Normal.
  • The above behavior is preventing the trigger to show the Finish layer because all the shapes are showing Normal.
  • Yet, your trigger to show the Finish layer when all shapes are Normal may work, it's pointing to all the "Cover shapes" and not the map point shapes. Meaning, the cover shapes are never changing a state so that trigger isn't reading anything.

Possible solution:

  1. Only have one trigger on each layer to change the state of a map point to the Completed state.
  2. Set the trigger to show the Finish layer based on evaluating all of the map point's completed states.
  3. The cover shapes are just for clickable regions and really don't need to be used to evaluate.

Hope this helps.

Laura Heilman
almost 10 years ago06/09/14 at 10:36 am (UTC)

Kevin,

You really are a superhero. 

I checked the layers again, and actually the first and last photo layers were set so the cover changed. When I reviewed all the photo layers I was checking for "complete" and "normal" and normal states.  I doubt I ever would have noticed the repetition of Q2, etc instead of being QX and QX-cover on the layers.

Thank you for your keen eye and quick response. I will implement your suggested solution #2 - makes more sense to me than having the covers be the completion condition.

Best!

Laura

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