Changing numbering in story view

Hi Articulate Staff,

I wanted to jump in here as I was looking for the ability to reorganize the specific scene numbers as well because this impacts how handouts publish (when selecting to publish to a Word document.) I have a selection of scenes that were reordered in the menu and I would like to have my handouts reflect the new organization of the menu items (scenes). Unfortunately I have to manually move every element within the word document to meet this reorganization. Reorganizing the Menu order in the player did not affect Publish > Word. 

This might be helpful to add as evidence to the Feature Request Andrew (above) submitted. 

Hey Joel,

I can certainly see where you're coming from. If the Publish to Word slide order matched the slide order in Story View, that would save you a lot of time and effort! I'll be sure to include your feedback in our feature request. Thanks for reaching out!

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you would like to see as well as the current process involved.

I've submitted this feature request on your behalf.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.

Hi all

I would like to add to this discussion that there is an option where the end-user will see the numbers for sure.

We are investigating he option to switch on the Menu-functionality so that the end-user has kind of an index available to browse through the content by this structure too (and also can see which pages have been visited in this Index). Since we cannot change the numbers, the index will be built up incorrectly because the building-sequence during design is not the final order in which we would like to present the content.

If someone has an additional remark on this, please let me know. All above mentioned options did not result in changed scene-numbers (as it is possible with individual slides within a scene).

Best Regards
Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,

Are you able to share a copy of your .story file here with folks in the community? Based on what you're describing I'd be curious to see how the menu option to Reset from story (described here as to how it'll apply the changes) would work for your content. 

If you need to share privately, please feel free to send along to our Support Team.

The following movie, under the link below, was pretty helpful (even though I use Storyline 3).

https://articulate.com/support/article/customizing-the-course-menu-sl2

I also figured out that the automatic numbering (which is autogenerated based upon the order in which you design your slides) is not used in the build-up of the menu. Within the Player Properties-Menu-tab you can change the names of the slides (as well as it can be changed on the label of the slides themselves). Just adding the preffered numbers to the slide-titles is kind of a work-around but does the job as well.

@Ashley; so thanks for the offer to review my training, but I guess the problem is solved and it is "case closed" from my side.

I would also ask that the automatic numbering be editable within the story view and the slide views.

I am building a lesson that will not use the Storyline Player at all, just the buttons on the slide for navigation. Trying to figure out where to point the buttons too when the numbering of slides is so out of what because I have moved things around (which as said always happens!) is a real PITA!

PLEASE get this changed asap! All you would have to have is the number being editable when you rename the slide.

Hi Kelly,

This discussion is a bit older, but it would help to know what version of Storyline you're using. Within Storyline 360, if I move the slides around in the story view or the scene panel, the numbers are updating automatically:

And, within the menu itself I can see the numbers while I'm editing but the player only shows the slide title unless I choose to number them automatically (which will be based on the order they're displayed in the menu: 

Those titles and numbers continued to match what I saw in the slide triggers panel as well. 

Hi Ashley,

We are using Storyline 3 as we can't use Cloud software here.

So while I can do what you have shown in your first graphic, the slide renaming when moved about it all goes out the window when I have used branching and also added slides after the structure was complete.

The picture below is a screenshot from a lesson I am working on at the moment:

Now I would expect it to actually be that the 4 branches start at 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 & 1.7 and then progressing down each branch you would have 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.5.1, 1.5.2 etc. But the numbering is all over the place and when I add a new slide mid branch say it comes in at like 1.8 or something. As I said not sensible and very confusing when trying to link the slide together with buttons. For this lesson I can not use the player, but understand you can use this to rearange things for the end user. But something needs to be done for the Author!

Hi Kelly!

Thanks for including that image. Have you looked into the automatic numbering settings?

To automatically number scenes and slides in your menu (as they appear in Story View), do this:

1. Click the Additional Options button (the gear icon) below the menu.
2. Mark the box to Number entries in the menu automatically.
3. Click OK.

Keep us posted!