Avoid the hotspot copy/paste land mine

I discovered an issue with Storyline that only occurs if you do something in a specific way. Here’s how to avoid a big headache with hotspots:

When adding hotspots, make sure to create a unique hotspot each time. DO NOT copy/paste a hotspot and rename it/resize it/place it.

Why not? It turns out that each one must have some kind of unique identifier behind the scenes, so if you copy/paste it and tell SL to pause the timeline when the timeline starts on hotspot 1, if you copy/pasted hotspot 2 and hotspot 3 as a clone of hotspot 1, it will seem to ignore the triggers set for any cloned hotspots because the user already triggered that unique item, so the software is like “already done on that one”.

Hope this is helpful!