Help - why aren't my triggers working

Apr 14, 2019

Hiya - looking for some help - I'm new to this and I have got a problem that I can't seem to resolve.  From the screen shot you will see that I have triggers for my previous and next buttons which were copied from other screens that did work.  But no matter what I do when I run it in publish the buttons do not work.  I'm presuming I've done something wrong but can't work out what.  Any help would be muchly appreciated.

 

Cheers

Sally

2 Replies
Judy Nollet

Hi, Sally.

In general, triggers that are copied and pasted will work, though they may need some editing, since they can only control objects on the given slide (or variables, which are global).

FYI: I was surprised to see you trying to use the PREV and NEXT buttons to go through layers on one slide. Typically, those buttons go from one slide to another, and custom on-screen buttons are used to move through layers.

In the photo, it looks like you even managed to paste PREV and NEXT triggers on a layer. That's really surprising, since those are Player Triggers. I can't even re-create that in Storyline 3; if I try to paste or create a do-this-when-user-clicks-Next trigger on a layer, it automatically goes to the Base of the slide.

It would help if you'd share the Storyline file, so people on the forum could compare the slide you say works with the slide that doesn't. If necessary to maintain proprietary content, just make a copy and then change the text to "ipsum lorem" (i.e., nonsense text).

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