Can I have multiple correct drag object/drop target combinations?

Hi Jacquelyn,

As Ashley said, default Drag and Drops are relatively restrictive. Perhaps a Pick One simulating a drag and drop will meet your needs. I created an instructional video a while back: Drag Drop - Multiple Drags with Multiple Targets. Here's the description:

Articulate Storyline users sometimes feel constrained by the default Freeform Drag & Drop quiz, which limits us to 1 drop target per drag item. In this tutorial, I describe how to overcome this drawback using a Freeform Pick One Quiz.

Danilo,

Check this sample. If any two of the yes answers are dropped on any of the small circles, it is correct.

There is at least a slight possibility you might be able to make this work if you are absolutely certain the learner will solve it using a certain order of steps. At the beginning, make visible only the "10" that will be used first and after it is dropped, make the next one visible. All in all, that sounds pretty iffy to me, but you might make it work.

If it doesn't, here is a sample that allows multiple objects to be dropped on multiple targets. It is set to allow only one object per target.

Hi Jacquelyn,

Have you seen this tutorials on working with drag and drops? Specifically:

Here are some things to bear in mind as you select drag items and drop targets:

• Each drag item can be matched to only one drop target.
• However, each drop target can be assigned to more than one drag item (i.e., you can drop multiple items into the same target).

There may be some community workarounds that you could implement, so I hope someone in the community is able to share here with you! 

Two things:

I couldn't get it to drop right because the items only drop on correct drop spots. Maybe you want it that way, but if you don't you need to make the incorrect targets potential targets. If you create a regular drag and drop, you can identify which objects are potential drop targets. The only way you can do that using another kind of slide is to identify potential drop targets in a trigger. So I copied the triggers and changed them "Change state to Drop Incorrect" if person is dropped on wrong target. That way the person can be dropped on any target.

The other thing is that you were dropping them on groups. I used a group in SL once, and it worked the way I wanted. I think it was in 19...  No, wait. I'm thinking of another program, Maybe ...  Well, it doesn't matter; the point is that groups don't work in SL. Pretty much you can use groups, or you can have triggers and states that work, but not both. In the attached sample, I changed two of the groups to rectangles with words on them, and two of them to text boxes with a color fill. I would suggest that you can't tell by looking at them which is which, and you can't tell by looking which slide has the groups, and which has the rectangles and text boxes. You can tell them apart when you preview them; the one without the groups is the one that works.

I'm pretty sure if you set the initial state of the Incorrect button to selected, you won't need this trigger, as long as you have made the Correct and Incorrect buttons a button set

Try changing this trigger to check the Drop Correct state of the drag items, instead of the targets

Hi, Danae.

I'm so happy Walt was able to help you with your drag-and-drop interaction! 

If you select all the items, right-click, and choose Drag and drop, you can unselect Drag return. This should allow users to move the items to the incorrect targets.

Let me know if this works!

Thanks Rebecca for an elegant workaround. I also had the same issue as Danae, where the dropped items would only stay in their position if they were dropped on the correct position. Thanks Maria for the simple fix to that.

Oh, I also initially couldn't get the C button to be selected with my SUBMIT trigger. I checked, double-checked and triple-checked the programming and it was all correct. In the end I got it to work after I rebuilt it (I had 8 conditions). Maybe this might help someone else who finds themselves in a similar situation.

My only objection with all of this is that it is a lot of extra work for something that could be so easily achieved in the Storyline interface. It would be SUPER helpful if we were provided with tickboxes next to the objects that show when you are selecting the Drop Target items in the Form View. This would easily allow us to be able to select more than one drop target, saving all of the extra workaround steps!

Thanks, Ashley. I had read that but I really was hoping it wasn't strictly true & there would be a way around it as it seems so very restrictive.

Hopefully Rebecca's solution will work for me though.

Thanks, Rebecca!!!

Please shout out with any questions, Jacquelyn. If I don't seem them, someone will be sure to jump in.