Working with Freeform Hotspots

Dec 03, 2015

Hi there.

I'm trying to make a slide where the user has to click on multiple hotspots in a paragraph. Once they've found all 10, they can advance. If they miss some, they should get a warning to try again. I've attached the slide below. For some reason, even when they find all 10, they get a warning that they've done it wrong. Can anyone help me and tell me what I'm doing wrong?

10 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hi Jon!

I am seeing the same result as you and my first hypothesis does not seem to be correct :)

For the sake of your time, I'm going to advise that you submit your file to our support team here so that they can dig a bit deeper and see what may be going on.

I will be happy to follow along as well, so just let me know when that is submitted. 

Kevin Thorn

Hi Jon,

Took a quick look and my assumption is converting to a multiple selection using hotspots is the throwing the error.

Meaning, multiple selection is based on check boxes with Selected states. Since hotspots don't have states, the interaction doesn't know it's been clicked (selected).

I added 10 checkboxes off to the side of the slide. Then added triggers to force those checkboxes into their selected states based on the corresponding click of the hotspot.

Then updated the quiz template to those checkboxes instead of hotspots. 

Works fine now. May need to adjust the hotspots on the story a bit though.

Hope this helps.

Jon Merifield

Thanks everyone for your help. It turns out, the answer was a combination of your advice with the advice of Miker Ang from support. Apparently hotspots don't work with the Freeform quiz, so I had to change all of them to shapes. Then, using Kevin's advice, I made each shape have a 'selected' state. Doing that solved the problem.

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