Worng action imported from PowerPoint

Aug 18, 2016

I have set up an action on PowerPoint to advance to the previous slide WITHOUT the mouse. Storyline imported it as "object drag over" instead of "on mouse over" trigger. Looking at the .story file, you will see that the trigger is OnHover instead of OnMouseHover.

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Crystal Horn

Hi there, Mario!  I didn't see your .story file.  Could you try again with the Add Attachment button?

I'm not entirely clear on what happened during the import.  Did you have your slide set to advance automatically in PowerPoint after a certain number of seconds?  Normally, that would cause the Storyline import to interpret that into a trigger of "jump to the next slide when timeline ends."

It sounds like there is an element over which the mouse hovers that triggers the slide movement, so seeing the file will probably make it clearer!  Thanks.

Mario Fonseca

Here you have my PowerPoint and the related Storyline. Note that the trigger in Storyline is Jump to next (previous) slide when user drags an object over the text. It is wrong should be "On mouse hovered over".

If you open de .story file as a zip file you will see the trigger OnHover instead of OnMouseOver. That is clearly a bug. I do not need a workaround. I just edited the slide inside .story file but I believe that it is a bug and as such must be corrected. Thanks

Crystal Horn

Hi Mario- We did some testing.  I couldn't open your .story file, but I was able to import your PowerPoint file into a new Storyline project and saw the same behavior.  I tested a new PowerPoint file with the same settings, and it also occurred when I imported that into Storyline.

I misunderstood your reference to the Action feature in PowerPoint.  You created an Action linking to certain slides when the mouse hovered over a shape in PowerPoint.  When that PowerPoint file was imported into Storyline, Storyline created a trigger.  But the trigger was when you drag the shape over an "unassigned object", NOT when the mouse hovers over the shape.

I agree that it makes sense for the trigger to be when the mouse hovers over the shape (same behavior as in PowerPoint).  Yes, it's easy enough to change in your trigger panel, but that could become tedious if you have many of those triggers.  So I'm going to file a report with our QA team for them to investigate how that Action should be imported into Storyline.

Thanks for pointing that out!  And I learned some new tricks in PowerPoint today, too.  :)  We'll be sure to update you if anything changes on this behavior.

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