Triggers and States

Hi Nerina,

You're thinking in the right direction so give yourself a pat on the back. I looked at your file and it seems you can solve this with a slight change to your design. 

Layers typically only reveal one at a time, but you can set the Layer Properties to NOT hide other layers. In your current setup that setting won't help us.

The one thing I noticed that I'm not sure is by design or an oversight, but on the "Firm Structure_Practice Areas" slide, if you click on any of the buttons under the photos you jump to another slide...except Lucinda Smith's photo. 

Lucinda Smith's photo is from what I understand launches to menu of buttons to access to content on the all the layers of that slide. So, if that's the correct I'd suggest building out the same "click-n-reveal" setup with Lucinda's button jumping to her own slide and then show the Corporate Buttons on the left.

I see it's slightly different but with your left side buttons on the main slide, each clicked then shows a Layer. Yet, on the main slide with the five photos only Lucinda's show a Layer that has the left side buttons and *then* each button shows a new Layer.

You have a nice clean layout and you've learned a LOT on your own! Kudos! Just step back away from Storyline (the tool) and look at your design. Even if you have to draw it out and map it our with pencil and paper, I'll promise that sketch will reveal everything you need to know before jumping right into development.

Hope this helps! 

Hello Kevin,  thank you so very much for your advice.  This section of my project is now working how I envisioned it in my minds eye.  Yes, I agree mapping the project out initially would have been the better option rather delve right in! Promise to map out part B.  I also seem to have a few technical glitches. I find SL performs extremely slowly on occasions and triggers don't function properly.  I'm constantly shutting down Articulate and re-opening it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Our Tech team can't help. I'm the only one who uses the application.  Are there settings I need to adjust on my PC to support Articulate to allow it to function at it's optimum?

Thank you once again.

Nerina

Hello Nerina!

Welcome to the community and I am glad Kevin was able to assist with your design.

You will want to make sure you work with your files from a local source, see here for more information. If you continue to have issues with slowness you may want to follow the steps here.

@Nerina,

The resources Emily provided are usually the main 'pain points' when things slow down or Storyline doesn't behave optimally. 

Aside from the above, take a close look at all your media (audio, video, images).

• Video: .MOV are larger file sizes than .MP4
• Audio: .WAV are larger file sizes than .MP3
• Images: Typical iPhone photo is 2.4 MB at 3264 x 2448. Resizing the image down to 720 x 540 (Storyline default Story Size) doesn't reduce its files size - it's still 2.4 MB.
  • Even re-sizing down to thumbnail or cropping images, the still retain their original parameters.
  • If you have several of these images/photos on a slide including layers, that slide will perform poorly compared to others in your project.  Ex: 6 images scaled down to thumbnail size and act as buttons to show a layer. 6 layers have a larger image of the thumbnail button with related content. Regardless of the size you "see", there's now 28.8 MB of images on that slide. May not sound like a lot, but over the course of a project with lots of media it will add up fast.

I realize not everyone has the ability to upgrade, but more RAM is the cheapest and easiest to upgrade if you can.

Thanks for sharing Kevin!

Thank you Emily and Kevin. I will investigate all options provided and see how I go. Very much appreciate everyone's advice whilst I'm on this amazing learning curve :-)

Nerina,

Just post back here if you have any other questions as you go. The community is always here to help :)