Adding Developer Comments for Triggers and Other SL Elements

Hi, Dan,

I agree that it would be useful to have a developer-comment area in the Trigger Wizard and in the list of variables. Or, at least, as a separate panel (e.g., like Notes except the text wouldn't be exported for translations, etc.).

You can request features here (but don't get your hopes up...). 

https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request 

In the meantime, if you're not using Notes for on-screen notes, and you won't be exporting a course for translation, consider adding developer comments in Notes. 

FYI: I've sometimes added off-screen text boxes to explain how a complicated interaction works. One could even create a never-accessed-by-the-user scene, and then add explanations there. For example, paste a screenshot of triggers on a slide, and then add callouts with explanations. (Again, it gets complicated if the course will be translated, since all the explanatory text would get exported. If that's an issue, another option is to put all the instructions into a Word or PPT file that's shared with the .story file.)