Trigger Help Needed!

Mar 29, 2022

SNS HR
By SNS HR

Hello, 

I have a course with triggers that aren't working correctly and I could use some extra eyes to help troubleshoot! 

Slide 2.8 what I want it to do is change the 2 long rectangles from "disabled" to normal when audio completes. Then, when the user clicks each rectangle, I want the state to become "visited". After each is visited, I want the continue button to return to normal. However, after my users branch to each scenario when it comes back to the 2.8 slide, the visited state is no longer active. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

The problem is if I don't start the 2 rectangles as "disabled" users can click the rectangles at any time, and then when the branching scenario brings them back to 2.8 my audio picks up where it left off mid-audio.

I haven't been able to find any solutions yet, so any help would be great!

9 Replies
Helen Dudley
2 years ago03/29/22 at 8:04 pm (UTC)

Have you thought about using variables. A true/false one might work here.

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SNS HR
2 years ago03/29/22 at 8:30 pm (UTC)

Okay, so I changed some of the triggers around and I have the rectangles & continue button figured out. But I'm still having the audio problem. If my learner clicked either of the green rectangles before audio completes, when they are returned to that slide to complete the next part of the branch, the audio picks up where it left off. 

Tom Kuhlmann
2 years ago03/29/22 at 9:12 pm (UTC)

If the buttons are disabled until audio is complete, how can they click and come back and pick up where the audio left off, if it's complete.

I'd set the slide this way:

  • Disable the buttons as initial state. Make sure the buttons have a visited state.
  • Disable the continue button as initial state
  • Change the state of the buttons to normal after audio completes
  • This allows them to click out. When they click the button is automatically goes to a visited state.
  • When they come back, the audio should not be playing.
  • Change the state of the continue button to normal when slide starts if the state of the two buttons are visited. You could also set the buttons with t/f variables rather than evaluate the states. I prefer variables when I leave a slide and come back because it gives more control.
Tom Kuhlmann
2 years ago03/29/22 at 9:40 pm (UTC)

It's possible that when you leave the slide and come back in a resumed slide state that the audio complete trigger changes the button from visited back to normal which would never trigger the state change of the continue button. If that's the case, I'd use a variable or something other than the audio completion as a trigger.

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