I am wanting to force the user to click on/open a pdf file before they can advance to the next slide. Is it possible to use a True/False Variable to do this or is there a better way?
Hi Kelly - If you're linking to an external document, you could use basic trigger conditions to evaluate when the learner has clicked the link to open the external PDF.
I attached a simple example.
There's no way to force learners to view the PDF but you could try asking one or more specific questions about the content in the PDF before allowing the learner to continue.
Yep, fairly simple. Have the next button disabled by a trigger to start then once the user clicks the PDF to launch it, have the variable change to true, and then just set another trigger to change the state of the next button to normal when the PDF variable is equal to true.
Thank you both for you help! Now i have a slide that has 5 different pdf's that need to be clicked on before the user can proceed to the next slide. How do I set up my triggers so that the next button changes to normal after all five pdf's have been clicked on? Attached is the tigger that I have set up. It does not change the state of the button to normal.
So you don't want to change it when the variable changes, change that to when timeline starts. Because of how this works sometimes with mobile sometimes, I will set up 2 triggers, one like this with it changing to normal when timeline starts if the conditions are met, and then I will also give the pdf buttons a visited state and then create a trigger that changes the next button to normal when the states of those pdfs are visited. Does that make sense?
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Hi Kelly - If you're linking to an external document, you could use basic trigger conditions to evaluate when the learner has clicked the link to open the external PDF.
I attached a simple example.
There's no way to force learners to view the PDF but you could try asking one or more specific questions about the content in the PDF before allowing the learner to continue.
Yep, fairly simple. Have the next button disabled by a trigger to start then once the user clicks the PDF to launch it, have the variable change to true, and then just set another trigger to change the state of the next button to normal when the PDF variable is equal to true.
Thank you both for you help! Now i have a slide that has 5 different pdf's that need to be clicked on before the user can proceed to the next slide. How do I set up my triggers so that the next button changes to normal after all five pdf's have been clicked on? Attached is the tigger that I have set up. It does not change the state of the button to normal.
So you don't want to change it when the variable changes, change that to when timeline starts. Because of how this works sometimes with mobile sometimes, I will set up 2 triggers, one like this with it changing to normal when timeline starts if the conditions are met, and then I will also give the pdf buttons a visited state and then create a trigger that changes the next button to normal when the states of those pdfs are visited. Does that make sense?
That worked! Thanks for all your help.
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