Trigger Not Working
Nov 04, 2013
By
Evan Laube
I am having a trigger on five of my slide layers not responding. What should happen is if the user does not select a certain box, they will lose 5 points (and if they select an incorrect response, they lose 5 points as well).
The incorrect response triggers work fine (meaning, if the user selects a wrong answer, points are lost), but the correct response triggers are not. It may be a little difficult to understand while reading this, but the attached should explain it more (see Question 3 for the error).
Let me know if this makes sense.
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It is definitely a confusing question. I'm not quite sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish. It seems to me that the correct answers are working as intended though. If I click on any of the SG1 boxes, no points are not subtracted.
A couple things that are confusing to me:
Josh-
I'm thinking it would help if I shared my entire presentation. After discussing this issue I'm having with another co-worker, he believes there is a faulty trigger and I may have to find which one it is in order to fix this problem. Here is the attached .story.
Thanks for the response.
After doing a quick test, I know its something to do with the correct triggers. If the user clicks "Submit" on Question 3, the layer "Incorrect" appears like it should, but the Score does not change (it should drop by 25). Any reason behind that?
I'm still not completely understanding what you are trying to accomplish with question 3. You have it setup to subtract 5 points any time the learner selects a box other than one labeled "SG1". Is this not what is intended? Or did you want a maximum of 5 points subtracted for each cabinet?
As it is you could lose up to 90 points on this one question alone. That seems a bit extreme for one question. If you click more than 3 incorrect boxes, then you will fall below the required 85% and the quiz will be failed.
The one thing I see that is not working is that leaving SG1 unchecked has no penalty. No points are subtracted if you fail to check any boxes. This is because your triggers that subtract 5 points for not selecting the SG1 box are dependent on clicking the SG1 box .
(they are triggered "When the user clicks").
Another thing about your SG1 triggers: If you click an SG1 box repeatedly, it will subtract 5 points each time it is unchecked. Again, this is because the trigger to subtract points is dependent on clicking the SG1 buttons, and there is nothing preventing the user from clicking it repeatedly.
Hi Evan! Looks like Josh is taking care of you here
Thanks Josh!
Thanks for the help Josh, but I still can't get it to work.
You said it may be "extreme" to get three incorrect responses, and then must start over. But this is forcing the user to correctly determine the right answer. Plus, with the surveys we've had with the end users, they wanted more scenario based testing, which will force them to read and understand the material before taking the quiz.
Back to the project itself. So I understand that I would need to create another trigger to say "The user loses 5 points if the box remains unchecked and not clicked on." If this is correct, what would the trigger be?
I am still fairly new with Storyline (only been playing with it for two weeks), so I'm still getting the hang of the functionality of the program.
Assuming the following:
Here is what I would do: (these are just suggestions, but I feel it results in a much cleaner version of question 3.)
Take a look at the attached story file with the cleaned up question 3. I think you will agree it is much easier to understand and track. Hope it makes sense and does what you need it to.
Josh, from what I can tell, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!!!
Thank you for your guidance and patience on this question. Its pretty difficult to describe what you want from behind a keyboard, but you were able to build exactly what I needed. Kudos to you and thanks for all of you help!!
Evan
Awesome Evan, love that enthusiasm Glad that Josh was able to assist you here.
Thanks Josh!!
Good to hear Evan. Next time I expect an easier question to answer
Well played Josh
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