User cannot advance to next slide until Audio completes AND all objects have been selected

This type of trigger has tripped me up more than once. There are two issues with your setup:

1. If the media completes before the user has selected the shapes it will never change the state of the next button. If you read your triggers like a story you'll see why. 
2. The "selected" state is a temporary state. I suggest you create a new, unique state for your shapes and call it something like "completed" and trigger that state when the user clicks it (assuming you're showing a layer after click). 

Without seeing your file or understanding your goals I couldn't give you a clear solution, but I hope this helps you get closer. 

Hi Michael,

Thank you so much for your help. Your suggestions helped me fix one of the problems.  I changed the state of "selected" to "visited" and now as long as I select all three objects before the timeline ends the next button will appear once the audio completes.

However, if I let the audio complete and then select all three objects, the "next" button does not appear.

I just want to ensure the user listens to all of the audio as well as selects all three objects before they can advance to the next slide. 

Do you have any suggestions for how to make the next button appear if they wait until the audio completes to select each object?

I attached the slide incase that helps. Thanks again!

One way to solve the problem of the audio completing before the user clicks all three objects:

Set Variable audioCompleted to True when audio completes

Then each object gets an additional trigger:

Change state of Next to Normal when user clicks ADC

   if audioCompleted = True

   AND GDC = visited

   AND RDC = visited

Keep your trigger to make Next visible when audio completes.

Hey Vanessa. Walt's suggestion solves this issue well. You'll have to do this for all of your buttons. Another way, although I wouldn't necessarily use it for this project due to the length of the audio, is to keep the buttons inactive until the audio completes. Then you're only using a trigger for the button interactions. 

Side note: you could have decreased your level of complexity by using slide layers instead of button states for your interaction. But there's more than 20 ways to do something in Storyline ;)

Hi Walt,

I'm sorry, I'm such a beginner with Articulate. What do you mean "set Variable audioCompleted to True when audio completes"? You mean create a new true/false variable? Can you walk me through this please?

Oh wait I figured it out! Thanks so much for your help, I couldn't do it without you!

Awesome! Glad that Walt was able to pop in to assist you here Vanessa and thanks for the update.

I'm sorry, I think I spoke too soon.  The help that Walt gave me did fix the problem of the "Next" Button appearing after the audio finishes AND the user has selected all three buttons. 

However, now if the user clicks all three buttons before the audio finishes, the next button appears and allows them to go to the next slide, even if the audio has not finished. I don't want them to be able to do this. I want the audio to finish as well as all three buttons selected before the next button appears. Do I still have the triggers wrong?

Thank you!

Vanessa,

Two things. First, set the default value of the variable complete to False, then add this trigger: