Triggers

Mar 03, 2016

Hi all,

this may be a little long winded?

I want to create a menu system for a particular project. I have got the majority of it working. It is on the masters where needed and the mouse hovers and basic links work well.

What I want to do though, I can't get my head around at the moment.

For the basics, you move through slide by slide. So on the menu the previous button has a trigger jump to previous slide. That works easy enough, no problem.

However, there are some slides that use layers to show additional content. Using jump to previous slide is annoying as it goes back too far. I want it to close the slide layer and stay on the slide so they can click on other elements on the screen.

I wondered if there was some form of checking I could get a trigger to do? So clicking on previous (my button for it on the menu) would take you back to the slide you came from, either to the previous slide or the base slide.

Hope that makes some sense, if not please ask for any additional information

5 Replies

Doug Finner

8 years ago03/03/16 at 12:06 pm (UTC)

Perhaps you could use this trick to use a variable to hide the layer(s)/element(s) you want to display only one time.

https://community.articulate.com/articles/limiting-quiz-attempts

Christie Pollick

8 years ago03/03/16 at 6:41 pm (UTC)

Hi, Glenn -- Many thanks for reaching out with your question and welcome to the community!

You may find that others are in a better position to help if you are able to share your file. Please use the ADD ATTACHMENT button in the bottom left of the reply box and you will be able to upload from there. :)

Walt Hamilton
Hero

8 years ago03/04/16 at 6:08 am (UTC)

Create a T/F variable. I named mine LayerOpen.

Put these triggers on the slide:

Put this trigger on the layer:

This will only work if you only have one layer open at a time. If you have two or more open at the same time, you will have to add a step or two.

Glenn Harris
Author

8 years ago03/04/16 at 9:47 am (UTC)

A little clarification.

In the player triggers, it needs a name for the layer to hide if done the way Walt suggests.

I wanted to create a single menu at the top of the project. The back button would either go back a slide or close the current layer. It can't be named as there are on some slides with at least 5 layers.

I am working on market sensitive information so will not be showing my files and do not have the time to knock up an example file with the same complexity.

On the slide master is the menu. It has 4 buttons, prev, next, home and exit. They work as far as moving around slides. However, I want the back button to behave differently when showing a layer on the slide. Instead of going back a slide I want it to hide the layer. I don't want to name every layer as I want to use this for 42 training modules and each layer will have different names.

What I want is some way to close current active layer, or to go back a slide if no layer is open.

This way I can build a template that others can use and everything is automatically set as far as the menu system is concerned.

Hope that helps

Glenn