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Changing state of buttons after section is completed.
I have a menu slide with six different topics (buttons). What I would like to happen is when the user clicks on a button, it would link them to a topic and when they complete that topic it would th...
Thanks! I've done this quite a few times and here is what I did.
Rather then use the stock visited state, I added my own state to each of the menu buttons. I called the new state "Completed." I usually gave the button a checkmark to show the completion of a topic.
Then I delete the stock visited state for each button as it's no longer needed.
For each of the sections, I have True-False variables, initially false, to denote that I had completed a section. The last page of each section set its corresponding variable to true.
Be sure to set this variable to true BEFORE you leave the last page of a section, BEFORE your trigger to move to a slide or scene.
Then I added Slide Triggers for each of the buttons setting them to the "Completed" state when the Timeline started if the corresponding variable was true.
Hi Gerry. When I do this and then go in to change the state to Completed when Timeline Starts I don't see the Completed State in the drop down and I'm not able to manually add it. If you're still around after 4 years would appreciate advice.
Hi Jillian
'completed' state is a custom state that you would need to create on the object.
click the object, click the states tab, edit states and then you can duplicate the normal state and call it completed and make any changes to it you want (eg colour change or add an icon to represent it is different to other states) It will then appear in the dropdown list (in its own section) to allow you to add to a trigger.
hope that makes sense
Thanks for this Wendy - Got it! I had created the state but I was working on the incorrect Object Name - which is why I couldn't see my new state.
Thanks again. Loving Articulate!
