Normal 0 false false false oNotPromoteQF /> EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I found a way to round numbers in Storyline without using Javascript. The challenge was to show whole percentage numbers from calculated decimal numbers (i.e. 33% for 1/3 and 67% for 2/3). Searching through the forums, all I could find was Javascript solutions and suggestions to submit a feature request. Not happy with either of these answers, I continued to play around. I found that Storyline only holds 7 digits past the decimal place, and the 7th digit is rounded. So to get a rounded decimal (percentage) as a whole number, divide by 100,000, and then multiply by 10,000,000. For example: 2 / 3 = 0.6666667 (rounded at the 7th position by Storyline) 0.6666667 / 100,000 = .000006666667 (which is rounded to 0.0000067) 0.0000067 * 10,000,000 = 67 Now we have our rounded 67% from 2/3 You should be able to apply this to any number you want to round. Divide and then multiply by a multiple of 10 that is large enough to push the number you want to round to the 7th position past the decimal (i.e. 13,567 / 10,000,000,000 * 10,000,000,000 = 14,000)

Thanks for the tip. I needed to have rounded off percentages for my project. This really should be an option that can be set in the quiz options. I posted a feature request. I am including a zipped up sample of the Articulate Storyline file here for others to see how this was set up. There is also a "Instructions" PDF file included with some screenshots of variables setup. My quiz here uses a number of question banks so the questions are randomized. To sum up what happens is per previous instructions by Terri and others I have created a few triggers that divide and then multiply the quiz results Percentage score by 10000000. It does this to push the score percentage past the Seven digits limit decimal place.

Since this does not work in Storyline 360, I found a very easy way to implement a floor flunction in Storyline 360 without using Javascript. EDIT: Corrected for edge cases and much simplified! Also attached an updated screenshot. Corrected Steps: Create one variable, floorScore, and initialize to 0 Results Slide triggers: Set floorScore equal to 100 when the timeline starts Subtract 1 from floorScore when floorScore changes if floorScore is greater than Results.ScorePercent And that is it! -------------------------------------------- Old (incorrect) version below. Edit 4/17/2019: I have removed the incorrect version to avoid confusion.

Divide by 10.000,000 and then multiply by the same. For those who want the math logic behind this answer, 42.85 / 10,000,000 = 0.0000043 in articulate (dividing by 10,000,000 moves the decimal place 7 places to the left and the 7th decimal position gets rounded) 0.0000043 * 10,000,000 = 43.0 (multiplying by 10,000,000 moves the decimal 7 places to the right resulting in a whole number)

I ran into a similar issue and I didn't want to spend the time to make this edit since I only had a 3 question quiz so I found a really good alternative! All I did was change the question scores from the defaulted 10pts (2 to 33pts and 1 to 34pts) and then changed the results display from %Results.ScorePercent% to %Results.ScorePoints%. That resulted in making the results rounded in less than a minute!

A colleague shared this very helpful tip that finally solved the issue for me! I created a Storyline number variable called RoundedScore, which I set equal to the Results.ScorePercent as the results slide timeline begins. Then I execute this Javascript: var player = GetPlayer();var score = player.GetVar("RoundedScore");player.SetVar("RoundedScore", Math.round(score)); Finally, I changed the "%Results'ScorePercent%%" text on the results slide to "%RoundedScore%%", and it works in Storyline 3! I hope this helps others who want to round the percentage in Storyline 3.

A Solution to rounding in Storyline – without using Javascript

NancyWoinoski
Super Hero
12 years ago
Nice Terry. Thanks for this I am going to add it to my arsenal of tricks.
SYu
Community Member
12 years ago
Thanks for this Terry! I've included a screenshot in case anyone needs a tip on how to execute this in the slide itself.

Updated 5/14/15 to say: Whoops, my math was wrong on this one! Sorry about that! See other responses for the correct math.
BrendaHeilman
Community Member
12 years ago
Seriously cool, Terry! Thanks bunches for posting!
CraigBellingham
Community Member
12 years ago

I'm pretty new to Storyline - only one course produced so far but loving it - and I have been asked by my client if I can get the final score to always be a whole number. I used the trick above to create the variable 'RoundedScore' and it works great, but I don't know how I then get that variable to be the score passed back to the LMS when my 'submit score' button is clicked.

Is this possible?
TerryMcDonald
Community Member
12 years ago

Craig,

I haven't done much with the LMS side of Storyline, so I am not sure about passing the rounded score back to the LMS. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for you.
BrettRockwood
Community Member
11 years ago

Let me start by saying math isn't my strong suit but I can't seem to get this to work properly with the standard variable Results.ScorePercent. For example my score is 42.85% as reported by the Results.ScorePercent variable. I created a new variable called NonRoundScore as S. Yu suggested and set it to equal Results.ScorePercent. I then set triggers to divide it by 100,000 and then multiply it by 10,000,000. But the result of my NonRoundScore variable = 4285%. What I want it to show is 43%. I'm guessing that it is the numbers that I'm multiplying and dividing by but I can't seem to discover what the right combination is to get me to my magic 43%.

Anyone out there who can lend a hand...?
OwenHolt
Super Hero
11 years ago

Divide by 10.000,000 and then multiply by the same.

For those who want the math logic behind this answer,

42.85 / 10,000,000 = 0.0000043 in articulate (dividing by 10,000,000 moves the decimal place 7 places to the left and the 7th decimal position gets rounded)

0.0000043 * 10,000,000 = 43.0 (multiplying by 10,000,000 moves the decimal 7 places to the right resulting in a whole number)
- GauravMittal
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Thanks Owen......
BrettRockwood
Community Member
11 years ago
Owen, thanks very much. I was just playing around with this and literally stumbled upon the 10,000,000 number making it work. It really is quite a clever workaround and works beautifully. Thanks again to everyone.
ShayRiggs
Community Member
11 years ago

Just a quick note to say thank and report success using this technique!! I wanted a rounded percentage, so divided by 10000000 then multiplied by the same number did the job.

Craig Bellingham said:

I'm pretty new to Storyline - only one course produced so far but loving it - and I have been asked by my client if I can get the final score to always be a whole number. I used the trick above to create the variable 'RoundedScore' and it works great, but I don't know how I then get that variable to be the score passed back to the LMS when my 'submit score' button is clicked.

Is this possible?

Not sure of how to go about this, but I would suggest storing the actual score, and then customising the score display web page to do the number rounding job – doing this means you are not storing bogus data in your LMS database.
JenniferBarn063
Community Member
11 years ago

I ran into a similar issue and I didn't want to spend the time to make this edit since I only had a 3 question quiz so I found a really good alternative!

All I did was change the question scores from the defaulted 10pts (2 to 33pts and 1 to 34pts) and then changed the results display from %Results.ScorePercent% to %Results.ScorePoints%. That resulted in making the results rounded in less than a minute!