Two "Disabled" states for one check box

Jun 26, 2017

Hi everybody,

does somebody know if there is a way to have to "Disabled"-states for one check box?

I want to give learners feedback to questions they have already answered, so I am setting text boxes to either right or wrong depending on the answer given by the learner. Questions which aren't answered yet, shouldn't be allowed to be cklicked on and the mouse pointer shouldn't indicate by changing that one could click the check box. Despite I wand these check boxes to look as they are greyed out. I am already using the built in state "disabled" for the question which is currently viewed and this shouldn't look as if it's faded, so it is not an option to use that state again.

Can somebody help me please?

Thanks,
Jessica

13 Replies

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

almost 7 years ago06/26/17 at 6:16 pm (UTC)

Hi there Jessica! Could you use a custom state like "Finished" or "Done"? You'll also need a trigger to change the state to "Done" once the learner answers the question.

Do you have a file started already? Share it here, and we'll help you set it up!

Jessica Koehler
Author

almost 7 years ago06/26/17 at 7:33 pm (UTC)

Hi Alyssa,

I haven't found out how to make the custom state behave like the built in state "Disabled". In this state the mouse pointer doesn't switch to a hand while hovering over the check box. This is the behaviour I want for my custom state.

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

almost 7 years ago06/26/17 at 9:50 pm (UTC)

Hm, I see. Do you have a sample file you could share? That would really help!

Jessica Koehler
Author

almost 7 years ago06/28/17 at 11:49 am (UTC)

I am not allowed to show the original file. But I put a rough example together. Not beautiful but it should give you an impression.

2DisabledStates.story

almost 7 years ago06/28/17 at 12:04 pm (UTC)

Hi Jessica

if I understand the user will never be clicking those checkboxes, you are controlling them. See attached I placed a transparent shape over the top of the checkboxes so they can't be clicked - then you can create whatever format for the states you want.

Hope that helps

2DisabledStates-SL360-WF.story

Jessica Koehler
Author

almost 7 years ago06/28/17 at 1:58 pm (UTC)

Hi Wendy,

Thanks for your answer!
You're right, the user won't click the check boxes.
I already had the solution you suggest in a former version of my file. But after a Storyline update it didn't work anymore. So I don't really trust this solution.

Jessica

almost 7 years ago06/28/17 at 5:40 pm (UTC)

Hey there, Jessica. If you have a moment, can you describe what behaviors you saw after the update? We'd want to make sure nothing buggy was introduced.

Are you unable to use a transparent shape? Does it interfere with the state change?

Thanks!

Jessica Koehler
Author

almost 7 years ago06/29/17 at 7:30 am (UTC)

Hi Crystal,

the transparent shape was there and lay over the whole lot of the check boxes and it worked. Then suddenly it didn't work anymore, it was there but it didn't prevent me from clicking at the boxes and change them e.g. from unselected to selected.

Maybe it now works again, but I want to be sure it'll work still when my customer will be given the project.
Thus the reason I ask how I could duplicate the behaviour of the diabled state.