How do I keep the learner from advancing to the next slide, until they have looked at all the layers on the slide?

Hi Ruth

you could add a trigger to disable the next button when the timeline starts (very first trigger in the list)

and then create another trigger to change the state of the next button to normal when the state of all your buttons are visited or completed (depends what states your buttons have).

You could also use variables - let me know if the above will work for you, if not and you want to upload your story file we can show you how to do it.

Hi Ruth!

I've been working on a project where this same requirement is included, and my solution is very much like Wendy's: I've set the next button's initial state to invisible and added a trigger to change its state to normal once X, Y, and Z (your layer's buttons or whatever you're using) have all been visited. Works like a charm!

Jackie,

Thanks! I went another way by creating conditions for the Next button, but a really appreciate your response.

Ruth-

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I did something similar to Jackie. 

I set the Continue (AKA next) button to have an initial state of Hidden and change to Normal when the timeline ends. 

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/elizabethdennis.cv.eld.example.insurance.2015/story.index.html 

I suggest changing the state of the NEXT button to Disabled -- not to Hidden. Why? When NEXT is hidden, the PREV button moves into its place. If a learners is holding the mouse over that position and clicking without paying attention (as we all know some of them do), they'll go to the previous slide and likely be confused about what happened.

Actually that doesn't happen for me, but probably because I'm using all of my own custom buttons. :)

This is definitely another advantage to making your own!

That's great, Ruth! What's nice is that there are so many ways to get the result you want. :)

Hidden vs. disabled button states is a question that comes up frequently in our workshops. 

I think you can go with either disabled or hidden buttons as long as you're consistent. What I see happen a lot is designers will make one tabs slide optional and then the next conditional. Same design for both, only they hid the next button on the conditional slide.

My design preference is to disable persistent objects that are normally available like the submit and next buttons. The user already knows where to find those objects, but sees the objects are acting different on conditional slides.

Using a small tooltip on rollover also helps to explain why an element is inactive.

Just re-posting a short tutorial on how to set up conditional buttons that allow a user to continue to the next slide only after all on-slide elements have been visited:

https://community.articulate.com/articles/require-learners-to-click-all-objects-before-continuing

Thanks David. I appreciate the help.

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