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Countdown timer for Storyline 360 - not in results slide
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I spent most of all day and a significant portion of this morning trying to create a backwards counting timer, not in a result slide, for a build I am working on. I searched the forums and couldn't find a way to do this. So, on the shoulders of the following people whose posts and work gave me pieces of the puzzle, I was able to build my countdown timer. Thanks to: @RobbieCollett, #eswiftlearning, @GodwinVinnyCarole, @JeffreyRiley, @PaulAlders and @MichaelHinze.
If you are interested, here it is. I have 3 slides where the timer is sitting on slides and 3 slides that access it from the Slide Master that I created. Feel free to use this is you need a backwards counting timer. It's complex and I won't detail all of the intricacies, but here it is and I am pretty proud of it.
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This is great! I used it to create a hidden timer for a Try It interaction (Recorded Screen, set to Try it, and show Hint Caption layer when hovered) - but I also want the Hint Caption to show up if the end-user had trouble hovering in the right spot. I didn't want the Hint Caption to show all the time, but to delay appearing after X-number of seconds after the instructions finished playing.
I put all the assets on the base layer (shape - motion path - and %seconds% text box) just out of sight (outside the slide area). And then modified the initial Move trigger to move my shape (Timer) along the motion path when the timeline on the slide ended, while keeping the looping trigger intact (move Timer along Motion Path when animation ends on Timer) . Finally, I add a 2nd show Hint Caption layer trigger to make it appear after %seconds% reached 0 (the %seconds% was set to 8, and Matt's trigger to subtract 1 each time the animation completes would count it down to 0 eventually. And I can set %seconds% to whatever seconds I want by changing the variable value).
This way the "timer" doesn't start counting until the instructions end, and the Hint Caption appears even if they don't roll over the right place.
Thanks, Matt (and all the ELH's that have helped along the way)!
Wow! That's awesome! Sounds like you took it to the next level and beyond!!
