Are light boxes still a thing?

Lightbox triggers link to slides that overlay the current slide.

Try it out. Create two slides. On one slide add a button with a trigger to lightbox the other slide. You'll see how it works.

They're good to use when you don't want the person to leave the current slide, but want to make content available from a different slide.

Great, thanks. I was struggling to find any information about how to add them. I didn't realize they were integrated into the trigger list!. Should the second slide be a slide or a layer or does it matter?

Hi Judy

the trigger would be to a slide - see this tutorial and here and here are  youtube videos that might help explain it as well.

Wow! Thank you.

After creating what you suggested, I can't get the lightbox to pop up. I set a trigger (by timeline time and by cue)  on the timeline. Then I tried setting one on a button.  No go. Ideas?

Can you share the file or a screen shot of the trigger?

Also, if you preview the slide, you'll not get the lightbox to work. You need to preview the scene or everything so that the lightbox slide is also rendered.

Hi Judy

is the lightbox slide in the same scene? If not you'll need to preview the entire project.

We recently hosted a weekly challenge on lightbox slides. Check it out: https://community.articulate.com/articles/lightbox-slides-in-elearning/

Thanks.