I am having an issue with an object that won't change to "Visited" and it remains "Selected". Can someone help me? This seems to always happen on the last object that they select before leaving the slide. Is there a trigger I need to put in?
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Thanks in advance! You've all been lifesavers for me this week!
My guess is that it is because you are using a group as the button. I never have luck with that as it always does something weird with states. What I would do is just have the individual shape as the button. You can then edit the shape state and add in the number and text. Then it is one shape that is being clicked, not a combination of 3 different layers.
The object changes to visited for me if I click on another object. If the tabs are in a button set and one is selected it will remain selected until another tab in the set is selected.
Also, you could put the audio on the slide layers and not have to use all those triggers to turn audio on and off.
@Tom-If I put the audio on the layers, isn't there something where they will play over each other if the user clicks one tab and then moves on to the next tab w/o it playing out? I feel like I've done this in the past and it's a problem?
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My guess is that it is because you are using a group as the button. I never have luck with that as it always does something weird with states. What I would do is just have the individual shape as the button. You can then edit the shape state and add in the number and text. Then it is one shape that is being clicked, not a combination of 3 different layers.
The object changes to visited for me if I click on another object. If the tabs are in a button set and one is selected it will remain selected until another tab in the set is selected.
Also, you could put the audio on the slide layers and not have to use all those triggers to turn audio on and off.
@Tom-If I put the audio on the layers, isn't there something where they will play over each other if the user clicks one tab and then moves on to the next tab w/o it playing out? I feel like I've done this in the past and it's a problem?
@Randy--that worked! Thank you. I didn't think of doing it that way! Appreciate it!
By default layers are set to hide one another this will ensure the audio will not overlay
To follow on with Phil's comment: if you have audio on the base slide (like an introduction) you can set the layer properties to pause the base layer.
Some people let the audio play completely and then allow clicking the tabs. This way you don't need to hear the intro audio again.
Another option is to put the intro audio on a later that loads when the timeline starts.
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