Using Button to advance slides

Jul 17, 2018

Rob Hutchings
By Rob Hutchings

New to Storyline and trying to figure it out. I want my video to stop in particular places, have a button appear, and require that my viewers click on the button for the video to continue. I've created the buttons...but I can't figure out how to set up the mechanism to stop the video until the viewer clicks on the button. Thank you.

1 Reply
Alyssa Gomez
almost 6 years ago07/18/18 at 8:52 pm (UTC)

Hi there Rob! Happy to help.

The easiest way to accomplish this would be to use a layer. Try these steps:

  • On the slide with the video, create a new layer called "Pause Video"
  • On the Pause Video layer, add a custom "Play" button.
  • Add a trigger to the Play button to "hide layer this layer when the user clicks the Play button."
  • On the base layer, add a trigger to "Show layer Pause Video when the timeline reaches [x] seconds."

With that setup, the video will pause when the layer is opened, and it won't play again until the user clicks the Play button. Hope that helps!

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