I am converting a presentation from PowerPoint. In my PowerPoint presentation, I used the Animation "Entrance" feature to have each portion of the slide come in.
When I convert to Articulate Storyline, this all appears on the timeline and builds automatically.
I would like to change it so that after each build, the timeline stops and users click the NEXT button to advance to the next portion of the timeline and have the next portion of the slide appear.
1. Because you have imported your course from PowerPoint the slide progress ist automatic. Goto the slide properties of each slide and set the "Slide advances" to "by User". Hint: Goto the story view of your story and select all slides by pressing CTRL+A. This has nothing to do with your problem you are writing about but it will help to set up your imported story.
The next things are:
2. Set some triggers to stop your timeline at certain points. You can set a time (in seconds) or a cue point. for each stop. When you are using cue points you have to create them first... of course.
3. Set triggers for the next button to continue the timeline when "next" is pressed.
4. Set a trigger for "next slide" when the end of your timeline is reached.
This is the "short story".
Storyline has got a very good help system with examples.
You should take a look at:
Timeline Cue points Triggers Triggers and timeline Slide properties
The Pause layer has nothing on it, except a fairly small "Continue" button, and it pauses the base layer. It hides other layers, lets the base layer show through, and if necessary prevents clicking on the base. The Continue button closes the layer and the base timeline continues.
Thanks, all. This is an old thread, I realize, but I'm wondering if there is a way to also configure the Prev button in a similar way using the cue point method. That is, can you say Jump to previous cue point if user clicks the previous button?
I don't see this as an option but am wondering if there's a workaround.
Hi Jennifer! Glad you found this thread helpful. :)
There isn't a trigger to "jump to previous cue point", but if that's something that would make your life easier, it's certainly an idea worth sharing with our product development team! Would you mind telling us more about what you'd like to see in the form of a feature request?
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Hi Jennifer,
there are some things you can do:
1. Because you have imported your course from PowerPoint the slide progress ist automatic. Goto the slide properties of each slide and set the "Slide advances" to "by User".
Hint: Goto the story view of your story and select all slides by pressing CTRL+A.
This has nothing to do with your problem you are writing about but it will help to set up your imported story.
The next things are:
2. Set some triggers to stop your timeline at certain points. You can set a time (in seconds) or a cue point. for each stop. When you are using cue points you have to create them first... of course.
3. Set triggers for the next button to continue the timeline when "next" is pressed.
4. Set a trigger for "next slide" when the end of your timeline is reached.
This is the "short story".
Storyline has got a very good help system with examples.
You should take a look at:
Timeline
Cue points
Triggers
Triggers and timeline
Slide properties
I use these triggers
The Pause layer has nothing on it, except a fairly small "Continue" button, and it pauses the base layer. It hides other layers, lets the base layer show through, and if necessary prevents clicking on the base. The Continue button closes the layer and the base timeline continues.
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Hi Jennifer! Looks like you are getting some great assistance here :)
Hi Jennifer,
I have attached an example with three cue points.
This example uses cue points and the next button (no layers and no extra continue button needed).
Thanks Jan.
Thanks, all. This is an old thread, I realize, but I'm wondering if there is a way to also configure the Prev button in a similar way using the cue point method. That is, can you say Jump to previous cue point if user clicks the previous button?
I don't see this as an option but am wondering if there's a workaround.
Thanks!
Hi Jennifer! Glad you found this thread helpful. :)
There isn't a trigger to "jump to previous cue point", but if that's something that would make your life easier, it's certainly an idea worth sharing with our product development team! Would you mind telling us more about what you'd like to see in the form of a feature request?
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