Is there a way to find out which slides are using a master/layout (also feedback)? In my project I have an old and a new masterslide. Although I have converted all slides to the new master, there is still an indication at some old layouts that they are used by one ore more slides.
I changed the color of the feedback layouts but I cannot find these changes on the slides.
In ppt there is an indication which slides are using a layout, but in SL I can only see how many slides are using a particular layout
I do what Phil does and it works OK as long as you don't have too many slides. It gets pretty tedious if you have many quiz slides with multiple feedback layers as well.
I agree, it is tedious, you need to go through each feedback layer of each question. I have projects where I just gave up because I couldn't find the instance where the slide master was saying it was in use.
BTW, I just put in a feature request for this and encourage you to do so too.
I'd agree with the recommendations of Phil and Brett here, especially in regards to the feature request as from the slide master view there is not an option to see which slides are using that master.
Not sure what it is, but there is something wrong here. On the other hand, if there is a simple method of showing the slide background on layer, I could use it.
When I look which feedback layout is used there is no feedback layer selected.
All layers use the feedback master, not just feedback layers.
When I add a 'real' feedback layout to the layer the number of Master layouts decreases.
I just did the shape as Phil suggested 4 years ago. Worked well on my relatively short course (only 100 slides and not all have layers), but too bad this hasn't received any attention. What a tedious way to go through and get your layouts in order!
Def. would be a great addition...I can imagine something similar to the Use Count column in the variables dialog box, w/ a link to show the specific slide names.
Google slides has a great way of showing this where you can still see the slide thumbnails in the master view and when you view a layout, it will highlight which slides use it.
The fact that this has been a five year long feature request gives me no confidence that it will ever be fixed -- it's a huge customer issue, specifically when importing your modules as individual powerpoint files (that is how they are arranged in my in-person training that we're now converting to an LMS). I had 8 different layouts that were effectively copies of each other, each created from a module import from ppt.
As of December 2020, if you are in slide master view and hover over a slide master thumbnail, there's a little tag that pops up and lists the slides using that slide master page. Somehow it was only after finding this thread that I discovered this, thanks all!
Just used Chris Dorna's Notepad++ steps from "over 5 years ago" to locate a master slide that was being used by 5 layers - not the base layer of course, that would have been too easy - of the same slide. The master slide in question had a distinctly-colored giant shape on it that I was able to see in the background. With around 200 slides in this course I've taken on from someone no longer with our organization, those steps saved me a ton of time. Thanks Chris! (P.S. It would DEFINITELY be nice if Storyline had an easy way to do this for us.)
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Hope there is an answer to this question. I am in exactly same boat...
By right clicking on the slide you need to select the layout (Which you want to select from Master Slide or Feedback slide).
Hi Kalyani,
I am looking for the other way: I am in the master/feedbackmaster view and want to find out which slides use a particular layout.
Chris
The simplest way I have found is to add a big shape (normally red) on the layout and then you can see when you return to slide view
I do what Phil does and it works OK as long as you don't have too many slides. It gets pretty tedious if you have many quiz slides with multiple feedback layers as well.
I think this would make an excellent feature request.
I already marked the masters but they didn't show up in the slide view.
I just found some of the 'ghost' layouts in unused layers on question slides.
I agree, it is tedious, you need to go through each feedback layer of each question. I have projects where I just gave up because I couldn't find the instance where the slide master was saying it was in use.
BTW, I just put in a feature request for this and encourage you to do so too.
I'd agree with the recommendations of Phil and Brett here, especially in regards to the feature request as from the slide master view there is not an option to see which slides are using that master.
Although three years old, this discussion is still current. Seems the feature request wasn't important.
I found out something strange (for nerds and technicians from Articulate only):
Nothing new so far ...
The Slide layout is visible on one of the layers!
Not sure what it is, but there is something wrong here. On the other hand, if there is a simple method of showing the slide background on layer, I could use it.
When I look which feedback layout is used there is no feedback layer selected.
All layers use the feedback master, not just feedback layers.
When I add a 'real' feedback layout to the layer the number of Master layouts decreases.
Curiouser and curiouser!!
I just did the shape as Phil suggested 4 years ago. Worked well on my relatively short course (only 100 slides and not all have layers), but too bad this hasn't received any attention. What a tedious way to go through and get your layouts in order!
I'm glad this conversation was able to help you out as well, Lindsay. Thanks for chiming in to share.
We do have a feature request that we are tracking for the ability to identify which Slide Masters are in use and where they are in the project.
I've attached this conversation to the report as we track user impact and so that we can share any updates with you here.
I find that if I have a slide open and I go to Slide Master, it opens on the layout used for that particular slide.
Great tip, Nicole. Thanks for popping in to share.
Ha, the shape-workaround worked for me as well. Thanks.
Still, it would be great to have a "reverse search" for used masters.
Ta.
Felix
Def. would be a great addition...I can imagine something similar to the Use Count column in the variables dialog box, w/ a link to show the specific slide names.
Google slides has a great way of showing this where you can still see the slide thumbnails in the master view and when you view a layout, it will highlight which slides use it.
The fact that this has been a five year long feature request gives me no confidence that it will ever be fixed -- it's a huge customer issue, specifically when importing your modules as individual powerpoint files (that is how they are arranged in my in-person training that we're now converting to an LMS). I had 8 different layouts that were effectively copies of each other, each created from a module import from ppt.
As of December 2020, if you are in slide master view and hover over a slide master thumbnail, there's a little tag that pops up and lists the slides using that slide master page. Somehow it was only after finding this thread that I discovered this, thanks all!
good catch
I only see the number of slides that is using the master
Just used Chris Dorna's Notepad++ steps from "over 5 years ago" to locate a master slide that was being used by 5 layers - not the base layer of course, that would have been too easy - of the same slide. The master slide in question had a distinctly-colored giant shape on it that I was able to see in the background. With around 200 slides in this course I've taken on from someone no longer with our organization, those steps saved me a ton of time. Thanks Chris! (P.S. It would DEFINITELY be nice if Storyline had an easy way to do this for us.)
Hi Greg,
Great to read that my 'historic' post helped you! That's where forums like this are for.
Articulate does not seem in a hurry to fix small changes like this (low hanging fruits) and the only way seems to be feature requests.