Hello- I have been successful in disabling the player next button in drag and drop situations and in counter situations but I cannot figure out how to disable the next button until the user has entered text in several text boxes on the slide. Thanks in advance!

My inclination would be not to disable the "Next" button, but rather to attach a conditions. If you select your text entry box in the editor, you'll see (in the triggers list) that by default it dumps the student's entry into a text variable. So one trigger would be: Jump to slidenext slidewhen User clicksNext button[show conditions]TextEntry1 Not equal to [default] AND TextEntry2 Not equal to [default]AND TextEntry3 Not equal to [default] This gets at the heart of what you REALLY want: The text entry variables must be populated with something other than their default values. If the user has not typed something into each box, the Next button won't take them to the next page. Then you'll want a trigger to display an error message if the user HASN'T filled in all the boxes. Make a new layer and call it "Error Message". Put a big friendly text box into it that says, "You must enter all the text fields to continue". Also add a button that says "Okay!" and has a "Hide this layer when user clicks this button" trigger. Now you need this error layer to come up at the appropriate time. Copy that first trigger on the "Next" button, and in the conditions, change the "ANDs" to "ORs" and the "Not equal tos" to "Equal tos". Also change the trigger so it shows the message: Show LayerError Messagewhen User clicksNext button[show conditions]TextEntry1 Equal to [default]OR TextEntry2 Equal to [default]OR TextEntry3 Equal to [default]I don't know for sure whether Storyline can handle empty space for the [default] variable value, so you'll have to play around a little.

Hi Sarah can you see that each of the text entry fields are validating correctly? Might be easier if you upload the slide for someone to help if they can work with your setup Update: I did a sample based on your image with triggers and its working for me unless I misunderstand what you are doing

You could set up triggers with conditions that only enable the Next button when none of the textentry boxes is blank.

Margaret, check the conditions on the second trigger on your Next button. It's showing for me that the fourth condition is "OR TextEntry4 != Not equal to (blank)". I believe it should be "OrTextEntry4 == Equal to (blank)", like the other three conditions.

Hi Marcella, Again, variables are going to help you. Set up a variable, e.g., clickInBox of Number type. Set up a trigger on your text box. so that when the learner clicks into the textbox, have the variable update. On the next button, change the state to hidden add a trigger so that it changes states when the variable changes to a certain number (a add a condition) so that is runs when the variable reaches a certain number. There may need to be some error captures but it should work.

Disable next button until user enters text into all text entry fields on slide

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SarahBurgart
Community Member
9 years ago
thanks for you help! Looking at it with fresh eyes today, what had happened was the text entry variable defaults were Text Entry 1: set TextEntry8 to equal to the typed value with the control loses focus

all of them were set to trigger a different variable than the one I was typing in.
SarahBurgart
Community Member
9 years ago
Related question though, is there a way to set it so the cursor for entering answers progresses to the next text entry box when the user hits *tab*?
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
9 years ago
Hi Sarah,

Glad you were able to figure out a portion of it! As for the tab key, it should progress through them as they are in order on the timeline but you could also customize the tab order as described here.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
8 years ago
Woo hoo 🎉 Glad to hear this helped you out Jim and thanks for popping in to share.
HowardVillar381
Community Member
3 years ago
Hello,

May I ask for some support please?

I'm basically trying to do exactly what the title says, "Disable next button until user enters text into "ALL" text entry fields on slide"

I have been trying to implement all your suggestion. I must be doing something wrong.

I would really appreciate it if someone can take a look at my file that I have attached and help me add that necessary variable for this please?
example.story3.6 MB
- MichaelHinze
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to do, but this seems pretty straightforward. See attached a quick example.
  example_MH.story3.5 MB
  - HowardVillar381
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Thank you so much Michael!!!!
JohnMorgan-c50c
Former Staff
3 years ago
Hi Howard,

I'm sorry you're having an issue with disabling your next button! I have opened up a support case on your behalf. You should be hearing from our support engineers soon to help you with your file.

Thanks for reaching out!

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Disable next button until user enters text into all text entry fields on slide

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