Drag and Drop RESET option

Hi Kimberly,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you would like to accomplish within your course.

Having the slide properties set to 'Reset to Initial State', any time you return to this slide will display the slide in its original state as you mentioned. 

I'd love to see any ideas from the community on how they accomplished a similar requirement.

Hi Claudia sorry I am a bit unclear, do you want the correctly dropped items to remain on their targets when you select try again for the second attempt? If this is the case all you need to do is add an 'if' condition to the drag objects see image.

That will teach me to read to the end of a thread! I kept thinking - "that sounds right" - and going off and changing my quiz triggers, only to realise it wasn't working. Then I came back here and read a bit more...then a bit more...

Finally got the variable solution working, then I read Gerry's elegant solution.

Big thanks to everyone - I learned a lot about variables working through this... 

I wish there was a step by step guide on how to use this program, it seems like everytime I have an issue I have to search and spend valuable time sorting through forums... or watching and rewatching videos hoping I find an answer.  I need a storyline 360 for dummies manual

I was able to make this work by duplicating the slide, then having the "Try Again" buttons on both slides set to take them to the other slide. And then I set each slide to "Reset to Initial State" upon revisiting. It's working perfectly for me now. Also, I set both slides to Unlimited attempts.

Another method that seems to be working for me (and is super simple!) is simply to put a new trigger on the 'try again' button to reset the base layer timeline back to any point in time that makes sense for your slide (e.g. when all loading animations have completed).

Things to note:

• This resets all drag & drop positions, but may not reset some other things (e.g. permanent changes in state, you could add further triggers on the Try Again button to reset these too)
• It allows you to have the layer set as 'Resume saved state' so that when the user gets the answer correct, whenever they revisit the slide it will have remembered their answer
• Having a set number of attempts works correctly without having to manually track it with a variable.

I did it a different way. I created a empty slide and placed it in front  of the slide with the drag and drop interaction. Add trigger to RESET button to have it jump to the empty slide. Then program empty slide to jump to the screen with drag and drop as soon as the timeline starts. It looks pretty seamless. :) I will, of course, have to hide the blank page so it doesn't show up in the menu.

Here is a sample that contains lots of nifty options for custom DnD, including resetting to default state or not. The concept is that it depends on what the submit trigger does. It uses the Submit trigger to either submit a pick One interaction on the same slide, or on a separate slide. On the separate slide, the Try Again button returns to the original slide, which is set to return to Original state on Revisit, which resets all the Drag objects. If you evaluate the results on the same slide, the Try Again layer just hides itself, and the objects remain in their dropped positions. You can see it in action on the Simple Graphic example at:

 https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/drag-and-drop-solution-sample-with-multiple-correct-targets-with-drag-off-and-return-plus-a-lot-more

Simple solution - create a trigger on the try again layer that resets the timeline on the base layer to zero when user clicks Try Again button. 

Hi Gerry-

I love your solution. Simple. Effective. It works great when you have 1 drag item per target.

I'm running into a wrinkle though. I have a drag and drop interaction where there are 10 drag items and only 1 drop target. 6 of the drag items are correct, and the others are just distractors.

The incorrect drag items reset as expected, but when you click and drag an item on your second attempt, everything that you dragged on the first attempt moves back to the target.

I'm working through trying to resolve this, but thought I'd throw it out there in case you (or anyone else) had any thoughts.

Thanks!