Trigger (un)happy

Hi! 

Any chance of attaching your story file--or just a story file with just this slide?  I think you need to do this with variables and conditions.  Would like to try out what I'm thinking with your actual slide.

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for your quick reply and your willingness to look at these.  I attached the two slides I'm working on.  I can't wait to hear a better way to do this.  Thanks so much,

Kathryn

Kathryn,

I'll let Gerry run with this one...but will quickly chime in on your picture.  Right now, the way it's set up, all four triggers will fire when the next button is clicked.  You're telling Storyline, "when the user clicks next, show all these layers at the same time."  So what you need to do, as Gerry has pointed out, iis to alter the functionality with a combination of triggers and conditions.  So, show layer 02 if....

I'm sure Gerry will rock it...

Another approach could be to create a simple tabs interaction where each button shows a layer.  This gets away from the next button, but may also change your schema, but I thought I'd throw it our there.

Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks!  I hadn't thought of the tab option for this, but it could work really well.  In terms of the triggers, I thought I had each one set to go to a specific layer when the next button was hit, not the next slide.  I think between your suggestion and Gerry's help I'll have two new ways to do this though--can't thank you enough!

Kathryn

Thanks, Mike!

Here's what I've come up with. I think it is what you want.  Lot of triggers and conditions.  Let me know if you understand what I did.

Actually, I'd also might do this with separate slides, making a copy of the previous slide when needed--that'd be easier for me and no monkeying around with triggers and conditions on the next button.  Then, if using the slide menu, I'd remove slides from it so a series of slides looked like one slide to the learner.

That's a great idea about the slides, too!  That sounds very clean and straightforward, which would be good for me (this is my first storyline project).  Thanks for working on these--I'll get back in touch if I have more questions.

Take care,

Kathryn

Kathryn,

You are correct in that your triggers are set to show layers instead of jumping to the next slide.  No problems there.  The catch is that you're telling Storyline to fire them all at the same time.  In Storyline, all of the triggers associated with an object (in this case the next button) will fire and be executed, in order, from top to bottom when the user clicks that object.

So in your case, you click next and all the triggers fire.  You click it again, and they all fire again.  Storyline doesn't know that you want the first layer to show, but not the second, unless the first is already visible, etc.  This is where conditions, etc. come in.  You're basically coding in the logic for storyline to know what to show when.

mike

That clears up a lot--thank you.  I wasn't thinking of them that way, but that that makes total sense.  I'm definitely not unhappy with triggers anymore thanks to you and Gerry.