Variables

If you post the .story slide, I'll take a look at it.

How do I do that?

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Thanks. I haven't  done this before.

I have attached the file with just that slide in it.  I have not finished formatting the slide.  I was just working on getting the variables to work first.

I added a slide that makes it work.  I wonder if it can be simpler?

I had to add two triggers EACH for variables changing: PacksPerDay and PricePerPack

The first trigger copies the value to variable CostPerDay

The second trigger multiples CostPerDay by the other variable.  e.g., CostPerDay = PacksPerDay * PricePerPack

Variables MonthlyCost and AnnualCost EACH have two triggers:

The first trigger copies CostPerDay to MonthlyCost (and AnnualCost)

The second trigger multiples MonthlyCost by 30, AnnualCost by 365

Some cleanup could be done to ensure that cents "$nn.00" are always shown, or not.

Thanks so much.  How would I ensure the cents are not shown?

Thanks for your help.  I have another question.  When my answers are shown, they includ the decimal point.  Is there a way to round them to the nearest dollar?

Carolyn,

I've been thinking of this problem, and without a mechanism in Storyline to specify digits in numeric fields, we've painted our way into a corner.

The only way out that I can see is to resort to text fields which compounds the solution quite a lot.  Using text fields to display the result, we could add logic to round numbers to whole values.

Does anyone see a simpler solution?

Sam