Conditional Variables Help!

Hi Jenna,
The bottom line is both of these issues can be handled with Storyline. Whether I can do each one justice by describing it is another matter. Giving it a go as follows:

1. Create a meaningful project variable name for each room item. I'm just going to go with a phone. So, name the variable something like "phoneClicked" and make the default value "false."
2. When the item is clicked, create a trigger that changes "phoneClicked" to "true." It sounds like you may want the item to disappear at this moment too? If so, add a trigger that makes the item hidden when clicked.
3. On your inventory slide: create a two-state phone icon using the States tab. Set the initial state of the phone icon as hidden.
4. Add a trigger to the inventory slide that changes the state of the phone icon to normal when the timeline starts on this slide, IF the variable "phoneClicked" equals "true."
   If participants are going to return multiple times to this slide, you probably want to set the slide to "reset to initial state."

That should do it from a directional standpoint. Your mileage may vary!

For your second issue. There are two ways that may solve reappearing image. One is to set the slide to "resume saved state." That is the simplest approach but can have unforeseen consequences.

The other is to set the slide to "reset to initial state" and include slide triggers that work like the four-step process described above --using variables to determine if an object is shown or hidden.

There are numerous details that will be inherent to your design that may support or hinder these steps, but I hope this helps!

Bob