Using variables with an effect on another slide | SL360
Apr 30, 2018
Hi, i am really desperate by the use of variables. I have a slide with topics, behind the topics the learner can find the lections. What i want is that when the learner is at the end of the lection and push the button "back to topics", that on the topic slide the section become a check-mark (with a check-image).
What i did: I set at the "back to topics" button a trigger with change the variables 1 from false to true. On the topic slide I add a new state on an object with the check-image and called the state "check". Now i define a trigger on this topic slide to change the state from the object to "check" after the variable is change. But if the leaner hit the "back to topic" button, on the topic slide the state won't change.
For clarification i add an example. Maybe you can find my mistake. :/
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Sadly I am not able to open your example, as I am using SL 3 and not SL 360, but this is how we do this.
On the last page of the topic:
On the page with the topic overview:
For more complicated courses, our variables start with a number that indicates the scene where the checkmark is to be found.
The checkmarks have the initial state of hidden and are changed to normal with the second trigger. No need to create any additional state.
Yes, that works! I guess my problem was the "when" condition. I use "if user click" (the back button). But with "timeline starts" the check image on the topic slide shows up. Thank you very much! :)
One additinal thing that we tend to do: most of the time we have a quiz slide at the end of each topic, which allows us to put the trigger that changes the variable on the "correct" layer of this quiz.
Thanks for the help here, Knut. One note for ya - Storyline 3 can open Storyline 360 files!
When we introduce a new feature to Storyline 360, you may not be able to open project files with that new feature in Storyline 3 until we release an update for Storyline 3 that restores compatibility. This article has all the latest compatibility info.
Marcel,
You should know what the original problem was. A trigger can sense "When variable changes..." only on the same slide that changes it. The value of a variable (what it changes to) persists from slide to slide, but only the changing slide can know WHEN it changes.
thank you for this comment! It helped me figure my issue! changed the WHEN 'variable changes' to WHEN the 'timeline starts' on 'this slide', it's now working like a charm :) thank you thank you!