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Change the Hotspot selected area-answer indicator?
Hello Heroes,
When using the Hotspot.. I have 2 questions...
1-I have unchecked the "show hand cursor on hover" and the hand is still showing....?
And
2-Is there a way to change the selection indicator? once clicked, the selected hotspot area is marked with a swirling black and white cursor...and my client wishes to change this...
thanks!
J.
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Hello from 12 years in the future! As it turns out, we'd still really like this feature to be customizable.
There are use cases where this interaction type is preferable to what amounts to over a decade of "use a sub-optimal workaround that probably triples the work you'll need to do".
-Enhancement: Users should be able to replace it with their own image, animated .gif or video file if they want.
-Enhancement: The color of the pulsing element needs to be hex code / template colors customizable.
-Enhancement: The icon should be scalable a bit, it's pretty small as-is and I sometimes have a use case to increase its size.
-Enhancement: Only one correct answer can be selected. This is useless for interactions where there are more than one possible way to get to the correct location (use case, navigation panel screenshot). Build support for Multiple Response interactions that can handle one answer being correct even if there are two possible correct answers. This logic should be supported in all Multiple Response interactions by default.
-Defect: this selector icon activates on screen even when you click on non-hotspot areas - this shouldn't be a thing. I have UI elements on these slides that are present throughout the course. The cursor should only activate on hotspot elements.
-Defect: If you put a hotspot designated as the correct answer above/on top of another hotspot that is incorrect, it'll report as incorrect even if you click on the correct answer. This requires you make a bunch of different hotspots that surround the correct answer(s) instead of just one. Hilariously, this doesn't happen with a regular multiple choice interaction that uses hotspots.
Please make this a priority.
Please add me to the list of those many requests, spanning 11 years to provide an alternative option to the tiny and confusing (looks like it's processing) indicator.
Just wanted to continue the train asking for this feature!
Hi Andrew!
Thanks for checking in on this!
I've added you to the feature report so you can be notified as soon as we have news to share!
Have a great rest of your week!
Well, as previously stated, The Mars Rover took less time to be built and landed on Mars, than it has for the Hot Spot feature request to be implemented. Like all of us, you (Articulate) do some things really well, and others not so much. Hopefully by the 15th Anniversary of the first post, your Dev Team can have this figured out! Happy coding until then!
This feature request (actually an enhancement request since the feature exists) was already suggested more than 10 years ago and asked for by many. And it still needs to be put on the feature roadmap??? There is no doubt that the hotspot selection marker is visually totally inadequate. It is a reason for us not to use this type of question. Mind-boggling that Articulate despite it being expensive software cannot pull off such a simple enhancement (highlight the hotspot zone and you're done ) in over 10 years.
Reading you 2 after years and this is still the same situation. I would really love to know the technical reasons as to why they are so reluctant to modify these kind of things that exist in the app since very early on. It must be a terrible mess in there.
Hi, Serkan!
I appreciate you taking the time to share what you’d like to see in Storyline 360. We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice. We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap.
is there any update this problem? I also wanted to changed hot spot question selector marker color from "cyan" to other color?
Hello Rajan!
The color of a hotspot in the slide view isn't customizable. We still have this logged as a feature request and continue to update it to reflect customer impact. As of right now, we have other features that are prioritized for upcoming releases. We'll be sure to update this discussion when it makes it on the feature roadmap.
Hello Any progress ?
Year is 2021 and I'm wondering if there's any news on updating the appearance of the hotspot marker. Apologies if I've missed something.
Particularly from an accessibility standpoint, it seems odd that after 9 years of requests we are still stuck with the subtle/tiny selection marker. Even being able to easily change the color of the echo/pulse of the marker, would make it a lot easier for ALL users to see.
Why limit designers to using light backgrounds with the given marker, and/or hacking together a workaround when trying to improve the user experience? Seriously this spinner thing is SO tiny and the echo is blue. My assessment is an interactive system simulation, and the software has a dark background. Ideally, changing the echo/pulse to a bright color, wouldn't require all this extra work.
Hi J H,
Thanks for bringing this back to our attention and for sharing why this feature would be important to you and your learners.
I have taken the time to gather some of these requests so that the impact of this feature is reflected properly to our team. This conversation is attached so that you will be notified of any updates we have to share.
I also wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
Hello, re-booting this issue-- is there now some way to show/hide that spinner wheel for hotspot selection? The layers workaround doesn't work because it doesn't let us use the other default hotspot features we need for quick development. Lots of work to do here and these workarounds cost more time than we can afford or teach a whole team of newbies to do. And the spinner is confusing end-user clients, who keep thinking it means the computer has stalled, which is its most common meaning.
