Trigger won't save for variable change

Nov 02, 2015

hi again Heroes!

This time, I have hidden the Next and Previous buttons and want them to appear when 4 slides are visited.

I set up 4 variables that are false, but triggered to turn to true when each slide is visited. However, when I go to the "home" page and try to create the trigger, the OK button won't activate, indicating I'm doing something illegal, I think.

Screenshot attached.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

21 Replies
Victoria Sublette

Hi Matthew.

Thank you for that; I had it on Automatically Decide, but when I changed it to Reset to Initial State, it indeed worked. However, now I have a NEW problem, as the reset makes the initial instructions play every time and I don't want that.

Could I have the Next button appear and somehow NOT reset the home page?

The big picture is that I want to have the learner visit 3 different SLIDES before they see the next button without going through the initial instructions every time. Any suggestions for doing this elegantly?

Thanks!

Wendy Farmer

Hi Victoria

Create three  T/F variables - one for each of those slides

Slide 1 - add trigger 'adjust variable xx to true when timeline starts on slide 1' - repeat for slides 2 and 3

On the Home slide where they come back to have the next button set to hidden or disabled when the timeline starts then add another trigger:

Change state of Next button to normal when timeline starts on home slide on condition that variables (slide1=true AND slide2=true AND slide3=true)

If the instructions are text, add another trigger to change state of Text box to hidden when timeline starts on homeslide on condition that variables (slide1=true AND slide2=true AND slide3=true).

If the instructions are audio, add trigger, stop media 'audio' when timeline starts on homeslide on condition that variables (slide1=true AND slide2=true AND slide3=true).

Hope that helps

Victoria Sublette

Hey Wendy!

That is a brilliant idea, and I had done all of the above except for the last instruction. And because they keep going to the home page, I tried using "slide1=true OR slide2=true OR slide3=true" because once they have left the page I want the character and caption hidden. It's not working, though.

What am I doing wrong? Maybe it doesn't work on captions and characters?

Victoria Sublette

Home slide - 4 buttons that go to 4 different slides

Home button on each slide, when they go home they can choose another slide

Character and caption give instruction, so should only come up on initial visit.

So,

  • Home - instructions
  • Go to Slide 1
  • Go Home - NO instructions
  • Go to slide 2
  • Go Home -NO instructions
  • Go to Slide 3
  • Go Home - NO instructions
  • Go to Slide 4
  • Go Home - see next and previous buttons
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Victoria,

Which animations weren't working? I am not sure I'm seeing the same thing - as I saw black text (no pink or white) and the elements that were set to be animated did? I may be missing something as this thread got longer - but if you'd like us to take a look at something specific, let me know and I can dig a bit deeper. 

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