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Can't drag in a Drag & Drop
I have a freeform drag-and-drop slide (attached) that has an odd problem: when I preview the slide, I can't drag any of the drag items. I checked that they're all drag items (not drop items), and I checked the "drag return" setting on all the drag items. I have the latest version of Storyline 2. What's happening here, and how do I fix it?
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- DavidCharney1Community Member
Hi,
I am not sure if this is a bug, but it is because you have two text boxes grouped. One text box is fine but two breaks the drag and drop. If you added an invisible box to the group above the text boxes, it should work.
- StatEaseAdminCommunity Member
That definitely sounds like a bug. They aren't even really text boxes - they're rectangles with text, and I did that specifically to avoid this problem! Adding the extra rectangle doesn't work, either.
- DavidCharney1Community Member
Oh that doesn't work? I had it working. Let me upload mine.
- DavidCharney1Community Member
Here is the file. The first one (A) works. It is important to make sure the invisible rectangle is above the boxes of text.
Hope this helps!
- StatEaseAdminCommunity Member
When I did the exact same thing you did, it still wouldn't work. I'll try reinstalling Storyline, that's supposed to fix problems.
- DavidCharney1Community Member
Very strange! I certainly could see the drag and drop not working before I made the change.
Hi StatEase,
David's works for me as he mentioned for A only - I know that grouping objects and than trying to use in a drag and drop can have some odd behavior, so if you're able to set everything up as David did and still having difficulty - could you look at creating that entire element as one object instead?
- StatEaseAdminCommunity Member
That's what I ended up doing. It doesn't look as nice, and I may try going back to redo it, since I have a couple of weeks before this needs to go live.
Please feel free to keep us posted if you continue to work on it.
- MattPainter-212Community Member
Hi guys, just weighing in here. I have also experienced frustration with a drag and drop interaction in SL360 just now. I had made use of the great new icons from the Content Library, but found that some of them were too 'thin' for users to click on them easily. I added 'page-colour' rectangles behind the icons, then grouped them, and killed the interaction - now only random items will drag. I view this as a bug and hope that it can be fixed. Thank you.