I have a scene with 3 slides, the first 2 have variables that if a user re-visits the slide, they don't have to click through all buttons to get the next button to appear.
I'm having a hard time with the 1st slide; it will not show the next button on a re-visit! Do I need to include ALL variables within that scene to get the next button to work?
You'll be able to attach the file here using the paperclip icon and there is around a 20 mb limit for file uploads in the forums. So you may need to strip it down to just those slides by doing a "save as" and deleting the other slides or importing them into a new project.
Thanks for sharing your file here. I took a look, and noticed that there was a trigger to adjust the state of the "next" button when the timeline starts - so no matter what that was always accessible. I removed that trigger, and changed the revisiting properties to "reset to initial state" and adding a blank slide after your second slide. Everything seems to work as expected now, in that I need to click on the three buttons for each layer, and once I do that, I see the next button and can proceed. If I return to the slide - the next button is hidden again and I need to revisit the layers.
Thanks Ashley! I think I confused you; when the learner returns to the slide, if the buttons were visited the first time through, I want the next button to appear so the learner doesn't have to click through every button again.
The problem comes up because I have 2 slides in the scene that have variables like this; my question was that do I need a trigger on the first slide that contains all of the variables after that slide for it to be true?
Ah, Katie - yes I was confused by your description and then the triggers I saw.
So when testing your course - I didn't see any variables that were being adjusted, just the state of the buttons. If you're going to have the user return to a slide that looks like this one (essentially a copy), with the same buttons - but want to keep the state as they saw it on the first slide then yes, you'd need to set up some type of variable - something as similar as a T/F variable that is adjusted when they view the layer - and when visiting the "copy" slide, the state of the buttons is adjusted to "visited" if the variable equals True.
You could also direct the user to this same slide again using the "jump to slide slide 1.2 dealer benefits" as a trigger on a particular slide. If after visiting it a second time you wanted the user to go to a particular point in the course - you could also use a variable for that.
So maybe that still isn't super clear - but want to let us know which way would work, and then we can provide more direction?
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Hi Katie,
Could you perhaps upload the slides in that scene? I think it would be easier for the community to troubleshoot.
Hi Katie,
I'd agree with Rebecca it would be easier to see how the triggers and variables are set up. In the meantime you may want to review the information here on how to set this up to disable the next button and some additional information about the order in which triggers are executed.
You'll be able to attach the file here using the paperclip icon and there is around a 20 mb limit for file uploads in the forums. So you may need to strip it down to just those slides by doing a "save as" and deleting the other slides or importing them into a new project.
Here's the slide I'm having issues with; I have it resume to saved state but would like to have it set to initial state.
Hi Katie,
Thanks for sharing your file here. I took a look, and noticed that there was a trigger to adjust the state of the "next" button when the timeline starts - so no matter what that was always accessible. I removed that trigger, and changed the revisiting properties to "reset to initial state" and adding a blank slide after your second slide. Everything seems to work as expected now, in that I need to click on the three buttons for each layer, and once I do that, I see the next button and can proceed. If I return to the slide - the next button is hidden again and I need to revisit the layers.
Thanks Ashley! I think I confused you; when the learner returns to the slide, if the buttons were visited the first time through, I want the next button to appear so the learner doesn't have to click through every button again.
The problem comes up because I have 2 slides in the scene that have variables like this; my question was that do I need a trigger on the first slide that contains all of the variables after that slide for it to be true?
Ah, Katie - yes I was confused by your description and then the triggers I saw.
So when testing your course - I didn't see any variables that were being adjusted, just the state of the buttons. If you're going to have the user return to a slide that looks like this one (essentially a copy), with the same buttons - but want to keep the state as they saw it on the first slide then yes, you'd need to set up some type of variable - something as similar as a T/F variable that is adjusted when they view the layer - and when visiting the "copy" slide, the state of the buttons is adjusted to "visited" if the variable equals True.
You could also direct the user to this same slide again using the "jump to slide slide 1.2 dealer benefits" as a trigger on a particular slide. If after visiting it a second time you wanted the user to go to a particular point in the course - you could also use a variable for that.
So maybe that still isn't super clear - but want to let us know which way would work, and then we can provide more direction?
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