Hello! I'm trying to find a way to change the "next" button in Articulate Storyline 2 to an "end" button at the end of the presentation that would take the users out of the story...does anyone know if this is possible, and if it is, how you might go about doing it? Thanks!

You can actually change this text by using the following JavaScript. All you would need to do is assign a trigger, execute JavaScript when the timeline ends. Replace "REPLACE-ME" with your own text. I can validate that it works in SL3. NEXT BUTTONvar button_next = $('.slide-control-button-next .text').text()$('.slide-control-button-next .text').text("REPLACE-ME")$('.slide-control-button-next').click(function(){$('.slide-control-button-next .text').text(button_next)})PREVIOUS BUTTONvar button_prev = $('.slide-control-button-previous .text').text()$('.slide-control-button-previous .text').text("REPLACE-ME")$('.slide-control-button-previous').click(function(){$('.slide-control-button-previous .text').text(button_prev)})

Hi Sara, you can change the text labels on the buttons by going to Player clicking on Text labels and then changing the custom text for the button. The only problem with this is that it changes every instance of the name so you can't have it say next on one slide and then end on another slide - but there is a trick you can do provided you are not using the submit button in your course. If you are not using the submit button, you can change its name to say end and then change the trigger to exit course when the user clicks the button. If you do this make sure you hide the next button on the slide.

Hi Sara! Looks like you are getting some great assistance here, just let us know if you need anything further.

Hi Sara! Are you using the built-in player with prev/next buttons? If so, I'd simply remove the next button on the last slide. Then, create your own button that says 'Exit' and assign the trigger 'Exit Course' to the button. I hope this helps! Keepin' the joy,Patti

Looks like Nancy has you covered here Sara. We have a tutorial here as well if you'd like to take a look.

Does anyone know of a way to change the "next" button to an "end" button at the end of a story?

LaurelSchulert
Community Member
10 years ago
You can also make a trigger to exit the course when the user hits the "Next" button on the last slide.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
10 years ago
Correct Laurel - but you can't change the text on just that one slide from next to exit - so that'll be something to keep in mind. Also the exit trigger may behave inconsistently based on where it's hosted.
ParashuramVhava
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi Nancy,

Your trick is really helpful, but my course has both next and submit buttons used on other slides of the course. For now I am hiding next button on end slide and created Exit button right after the menu in the top right corner. But it would be great if I could use Exit button in place of Next button. Any possibilities?

Thanks
- NancyWoinoski
  Super Hero
  10 years ago
  Hi Parashuram, I'm afraid you can't use the Exit button in place of the Next button on the last slide unless you are not using the Next button anywhere else in the course.
  
  In your case, you have 3 options;
  
  You can create a custom Exit button and place it someplace on your last slide.
  
  You can create a custom tab called Exit and have the tab trigger the exit - keep in mind that if you do this the tab will appear on every slide.
  
  You can create a custom Submit button for you quiz questions and place it on your quiz slides and then reserve the player Submit button for the Exit like I described above. This is the option I would use because I don't like the positioning of the Submit button on the player because it is too easy to click the Next or Prev buttons instead of Submit when they are displayed.
ChristiePollick
Community Member
10 years ago
Excellent info, Nancy! Thanks for assisting Parashuram here! :)
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
7 years ago
Glad this was helpful to you as well Saymara and I appreciate you chiming in.

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes by the way :)
TomFarrow-e137d
Community Member
6 years ago
I can confirm 1 yr and a bit later it still works your example, just used myself.

Thanks Bryan.
- BryanMendelson-
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  Tom, thanks for the update. Always good to know that examples still work. :)
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
6 years ago
So glad that you were able to find what you needed as well, Tom.

Thanks for chiming in to share and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
BryanMendelson-
Community Member
6 years ago
I guess you could disable (slide properties) the next button on the last slide then try adding a custom exit button or include exit as a part of a player tab. I've not had the need for it, but i'll do some research.
- MultiversityDev
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  I want to enable or highlight next button when slide timeline ends. I want to apply this in all slide in modules. So please help me to integrate JavaScript. I saw your reference and I need to do that same in articulate 360.
MultiversityDev
Community Member
6 years ago
I have done this in storyline 360 using JavaScript.
JordanBest
Community Member
4 years ago
I tried using the information in this thread to change the text of the Next button in SL360 using the Modern Player, but so far have had no luck. Does anyone have any insight into what (if anything) needs to change in the code to get it to work? I could be doing something completely wrong too -- any help would be appreciated!