Slide out menu in Storyline

Very slick indeed.  Thank you for your generosity.  :)

Good work - thanks for sharing Nejc!

Can someone tell me how to use or open the source files, which Nejc attached with his post. When I tried to download, it saves as a .zip file. I expected the zipped file to have the storyline file but it does not. How can I make use of the unzipped files to see how Nejc created the published SL.

Thank  you.

Hi, Daniel, you should get a .story file, there is no zip.

Hi Nejc, Thank you for the prompt response. I'm not sure why it continues to download as a zip. I changed the extension to .story after the download and all is well. Thanks again for sharing the sources. I also found your post on Interaction - unhide things using another object on hover very useful.

Cheers,

Hi, Daniel, thank you for your reply and sorry about the bad sound in the youtube video about unhiding objects (my equipment is much better now :)).

Thank you Matthew.

Playing with a new version of this type of menu, a bit more complex:

https://twitter.com/nejcd/status/774345163514736640

This might be the best thing I've seen for SL2.  It helps when you have minimal real estate on your screen!  Great template, I will defnintely use this in future projects.  Thank you so much!

Hi, Ryan,

you are welcome! I have two other kinds of menus in the works, will post soon.

Another version of this kind of  a menu is available here:

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/pull-down-menu

Thanks for sharing this great idea, how do you enter text for the menu. I went to the master and added text on the base layer and on the layer within and the text will not show up on the menu.

Hi Lynda

see if this quick video helps

It needed to be added onto the state, I figured it out.

Thanks,

Lynda

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I really like the concept for a slide out menu as shown in Nejc's example. Based on his example, I created an SL file with a bottom slide out menu. This example contains multiple hyperlinks to other slides within the course to more fully demonstrate its functionality.

Preview is available here; https://s3.amazonaws.com/danpreview/Slideout+Menu/story.html. If you'd like to see my solution view the attached SL file.

Cheers,

Hi, Daniel,

nice bottop-up version. Personally I would prefer to use the motion paths instead of in and out animations to get a smoother effect (as you can see, the menu twitches a bit, when it comes all the way down). Instead of using many layers for each menu item, you could create a variable to know which menu item was clicked. Something like:

Trigger to adjust the variable: "adjust variable "menu_item" to "menu item 1" when user clicks Menu item 1
Trigger to move the menu: "change state of menu to hidden (or move on motion path for exit) when user clicks Menu item 1"

I hope that was clear. :)

Hi Nejc,

Like you, I also like the smoothness of the motion path. However, I could not quite figure out an easy way to keep the menu with all its links moving together. If I'm not mistaken, your solution to this problem is to have the links appear after the menu is in place after the move. If you have a sample file with working links, I would love to see it.

Thanks for the tips on using variables as an alternative to multiple layers.

hello Nejc Žorga Dulmin great menu but sorry for sounding silly but i cant seem to add text to the menu can you point me in the right direction please thank you 

You have to go into the Master slide and open the menu layer. Then you can add the text to it (I would probably make it appear when animation of the menu is complete, which means you would use extra text boxes for the text navigation).

Hello

Thank you very much for your quick reply that's great I will try it that way

Thank you

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Thank you for sharing Nejc! Beautiful work

Hi guys, don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but when I download the file and view it in Storyline I can't see any triggers or motion paths and there are no objects on the timeline. Could someone please tell me what I'm meant to see when I open the file?

Nothing wrong, Sophie, you just need to go under View and click Slide Master. That's where all the magic happens. :)

Well that makes a lot more sense now! Thanks :)