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 then link them back to the menu page, change the state of that button to visited. I have created a true/false variable and set it to false and then have placed a trigger on the last page of the section to change it to true. I then created a trigger on the menu page to change the button from Normal to Visited when the variable is changed to True. However, when I preview it, the button changes to Visited state when I click on it, prior to going to the section and is back to Normal state when returned to the Menu. Any thoughts? Thanks

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 Joe, sorry not got time to look at your file today, here is a demo I did a while ago, you need to make sure it is a slide level trigger that changes the state to completed. Also you need to ensure your varibale change trigger is before the jump to trigger or else it never fires here is a screenr I did as well

Visited always fire when pressed, so like Gerry I always use a completed state, and use T/F variables to track this. I believe this is best as it is the best way to check slides have been viewed instead of using a visited state. I believe the visited state is best to use only within a slide. My rule of thumb is, if you are tracking on a slide use the visited state, if you are leaving and returning to a slide use a variable, and a custom state. This is a lot more flexible and I believe a more elegant design than using the visited state. In short, what Gerry said

Phil, you da man! Your attachment was a big help. The problem was that I had the "When" setting of the trigger set to "Variable Changes" instead of "Timeline starts." Screenshot below shows the trigger setup that did the trick. Thanks again for the help.

Hi Lu your variables aren't firing - when is the variable supposed to change to True? The button is changing to visited because that is the correct behaviour of the built in state when the user clicks the button.

Changing state of buttons after section is completed.

MichaelHinze
Community Member
7 years ago
On the masterslide, edit the Change state trigger to change state of textbox (select the correct textbox) to Complete, WHEN TIMELINE STARTS if Wristcomplete=true. Also, set the slide properties to Reset to Initial State.
EmmaBailey
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi Michael thanks for the quick response - It now works!
JasonFerguson-6
Community Member
6 years ago
This thread is still helping! Thank you Phil, Joe, Gerry, and everyone else for the help and great ideas!
PatriciaLacerte
Community Member
4 years ago
Hello everyone,
First of all, thanks everyone for your tips, they were very helpful and now the state of my buttons are reflecting that the user complete some defined sections.

However, I am experiencing issue with the Next button. I want that it change to Normal state only when all my 12 buttons had been visited. However, following the completion of 2 of them, the next button is available and the user can reach the conclusion slide... I also had the opposite problem, even if all the sections were completed, the button still disabled.

I use the trigger "Change state of Next Button to Normal when the timeline starts on this slide If "all the 12 variables" = True" (I also tried with "State of all rectangles is Completed and I obtained the same result).

Can you help me please? I was pretty pleased with I finally succeed the complete button state after at least one hour of try and retry, but this tiny problem causes me headaches...

Thanks a lot!
WaltHamilton
Super Hero
4 years ago
It would help a lot if you could attach at least the slide with the problem buttons here.

If it is a large file, start a new project, and import one or two sections from your project into the new one, and attach it here.
- PatriciaLacerte
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Hello,
  
  Actually, I had finally succed!! I used variable data to add 1 each time the user click on a button and once the value upper or equal to 12 is reach, then the button next become available. It was a little bit hard but it worked!
JennyNewman
Community Member
2 years ago
I just want to tell you how very thankful I am to have found this thread! It saved me countless hours of pulling out my hair, and reiterates the power of community! Thank you for keeping this thread active!