Where does the layer art come from?

Hi R - for the first question you asked -  there is a slide master for the feedback slides.When you click View on the toolbar ribbon, select  Feedback Master instead of  Slide Master.

If you want to change the color of the dialog box that appears, select the first slide in the feeback slide master "Clean Slide Master" You can then select the Rectangle object and change its color, size and shape. To  change its shape click the rectangle shape on the slide and then select the Change Shape option in the Insert Shapes area on the toolbar ribbon.

You can change the size, transparency etc by  right clicking on the shape to display the Format Shape or Size and Position options.

You can change the text for the various feedback options by going to those specific feedback slides and changing the text.

You can also add any other images you want to the feedback master pages.

The only thing that you can't modify is the look of the button - not sure why.

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Thank you. Still getting used to where everything is "hidden."

Wait. So how is it that the heading, text, and button can be edited, deleted, moved, and adjusted on Try Again layer on the slide, but the background and line element can't? How does it know?

To customize or remove the background and divider line, you need to edit the top most slide master. So, from View > Feedback Master just select the top, master layout and select the individual graphics.

The text choices and button placeholder are controlled on the slide layouts while the background elements are managed at the master level. You can change that if you like and place the background graphics and separator on each slide layout if you like. We see this when users want to customize correct and incorrect layouts differently.

So, that brings me to a question I asked in another thread (can't remember which one now) that didn't get answered. I was surprised to discover that, as you say, David, the text choices and button placeholders, when repositioned on the topmost slide master, don't "cooperate" on the other masters. I understand from what you just said that sometimes users "want to customize correct and incorrect layouts differently." But what about when we don't want to do that?

I've had a couple instances where I wanted everything  in the submasters to be positioned as it is in the topmost slide master, and because they didn't all move together, I had to determine the position in the topmost master, note it down, and then change it in the "submasters." To save time, I tried copying and pasting items from, for example, the correct to incorrect masters (so I wouldn't have to manually make changes), but this just messed up the target master.

Why can't SL be set up so with options: everything that's moved on the topmost master moves on the others. To override this, just go to a specific master and make changes.

I'm probably missing something, so please do let me know!

Hi Becky - you're right that the text placeholders on the master layout will not affect the slide layouts. Objects placed on the master will copy across slides, but the text placeholders do not.

Storyline has a neat production feature that lets you copy an object from a slide and then paste that object across multiple slides. Just shift-click the slides you want to paste to and press Ctrl-V to paste. It works great.

But I still agree with you that master placeholders affecting child layouts would be a good option.

Thanks, David for the shift+click trick to copy items across multiple slides. I use that keystroke a lot in other situations, but wasn't aware of that one. Unfortunately, when I copied the correctly placed boxes from the Incorrect layer to the Correct layer (or vv) the layer with the copy didn't function properly when I exited the Feedback master view and Played the Story. Not sure why. P/h "user error." (NEVER! )

Sending in the feature request momentarily! Tx for the feedback

Hi again,

Just tried to put in a request, and am receiving prompts in both FF and IE that I should try again later. Thought perhaps it might be some square brackets I had within my content (once before a plus sign caused problems) but took those out and still can't get through. Just thought I'd send along a heads up. Will try again in a bit; if I can't get "through" may post my content here before I forget about it, and hope someone will pass it along. BTW, I sent a request in probably 15" ago from another thread with no problem.

OK. There's definitely a problem with something in this content that's preventing the request to go through. I just now put in a request from a different thread (I hope I'm not going to be though of as Feature-Request-Happy :( I HAVE asked before requesting) and it went through fine.

So here's the content for the request I'm trying to send through. Hoping one of the staff will see this and maybe send it along to support to see which character(s) is/are causing problems. Note that I really wanted to  parentheses to be square brackets. TIA

REQUEST

I would like changes in placeholder in the "Main" Master in the Feedback Master (and the regular master) to "take" in the submaster layouts (or child layouts).

As I stated in the thread referenced below:
(When using the Feedback Master) The text choices and button placeholders, when repositioned on the topmost slide master, don't "cooperate" on the other masters.

I understand from what you (David Anderson) just said that sometimes users "want to customize correct and incorrect layouts differently." But what about when we don't want to do that?

I've had a couple instances where (for the sake of consistency) I wanted everything in the submasters (layouts) to be positioned as it is in the topmost slide master, and because they didn't all move together, I had to determine the position in the topmost master, note it down, and then change it in the "submasters."