Can't restart a layers timeline

Hi Glenda,

To you answer your question, if you click the gear icon on the base layer, you'll see that you can dictate the behavior of the slide when the learner is returned to the slide.   

However, in your case, the learner isn't moving away from the slide, rather, by clicking oval 1, they're simply triggering a layer to show on the current slide.  Hence, the slide (or base layer) isn't restarting (since you're still there).  As a result, your triggers to change the state of oval 2 to normal won't work because they're saying to do it when the timeline starts.  Given that the timeline already started, these triggers won't fire.

Solution:

Alter your trigger on the base layer to say:

Change state of oval 2 to normal when displayWindow changes if displayWindow is equal to True.

This will then tell Storyline to constantly be on the look out for that variable changing versus just checking in at the timeline start.  

With that Said:

In your current example, if the goal is to simply have those ovals appear one after the other as the learner sequentially moves through them, then you don't need to use a variable.  You can accomplish the same outcome by evaluating and triggering state changes.  I've attached an example of this using your file. 

I hope this helps!

Mike