Drag and Drop RESET option

It appears to make a difference how you have the snap option set.
I had it set to "Tile", but changing it to "Free" seemed to resolve the issue reported above.

Of course, doing that posed it's own problem, so now I'm working it in a slightly different manner: changing state to hidden when dropped and then back to normal on Retry, etc.

It can be done in a simple way without using variables. I made a duplicate slide and set 2 attempts for the original one and one attempt for the second. Additionally, I Changed the navigation for 'Try Again' button.  On clicking the 'try again' button, the page navigates to the duplicate page where we have only one attempt, which will result either right or wrong answer.

Hi, Judy.

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I believe that when using their suggestion, the second attempt will be the duplicated slide:

First slide (First attempt) > Try Again (Jumps to Duplicated slide > Second slide (Second attempt).

I hope this helps!

Hi,

I'm trying to do something similar with a drag and drop interaction.

The user has unlimited attempts so there's a try again layer. I've added a button called 'more info' that is hidden until the Try Again button is visited. The more info button shows a layer with hints to the right answer. This info layer has a button that hides it when clicked so the user has the base layer visible again to try again.

The base layer is set to reset to initial state.

I've tried adding a trigger to the try again button so clicking it jumps to the current slide. The problem I have here is that the 'try again' button's state is reset to an unvisited state, so the more info button's state doesn't change to normal.

Is there any way I can get the drag and drop objects to reset but still have the try again button on the try again layer retain its visited state?

I've attached a mock up version of the slide in question. I can't upload the real thing due to confidentiality, but I think you'll get the idea.

Thank you

Karen

So glad to hear my colleague Maria was able to assist you, Dipu! 

Have a great weekend and happy developing! ✨

Thank you Luciana... have a great weekend!

Is there any way I can get the drag and drop objects to reset but still have the try again button on the try again layer retain its visited state?

 I think a more precise question is "How can I make the More Info button show if the Try Again layer has been visited?" Jumping to this slide, or to 0 sec on the timeline of this slide resets the state of the objects, so you can't use the state of the Try Again button. I think that is for the best, because states can be finicky.

Nevertheless, if you are enamored of the concept, There are two slides in the sample that use it.

The Least Preferred slide jumps to 0.01 sec, which maintains the state of the Try Again Button.

The Less Preferred slide jumps to the beginning of the timeline, but doesn't maintain the state of the Try Again button.

I should warn you that neither of these method restarts the slide completely,, so the dropped locations are retained. On the second attempt, if you drag an object over a previously dropped incorrect objects, that object jumps to its former drop spot. That is one reason I prefer the last method.

The only really reliable way to do this is to write a note to tell the system that Try Again has been visited, and the More Info button should be changed to its Normal state. Programmer-type people call that note a variable. I used one on the Most Preferred slide, along with a Jump to this slide trigger. The jump resets the state of the objects on the slide, but doesn't change the variable, so it can be used reliably to set the state of More Info.

All the changes I made were made on the Try Again layer, where you can see the variable in action. I created some triggers to show the More Info button if Try Again has already been visited. I disabled others that aren't needed.

Then on the Changing Hints slide, I added an additional variable that allows you to track the number of attempts, and give additional hints on succeeding attempts.

FYI, you don't normally need triggers of this type:

New layers are created with a default setting to hide other layers, so showing Review will Hide this layer.

Hello Mr. Karen and Mr. Walt,

For unlimited attempts, we can manage with a single slide itself.

A visited state is created for "Try Again" button.

You can set the number of attempts to "Unlimited" in the settings.

A couple of triggers to be added to the "Try Again" layer.

At first I added, "Jump to slide - This Slide - When the user clicks Try Again".

Next I created a true/False variable "TryAgain_Visit.

On the top of other triggers, I added a new trigger, "Set TryAgain_Visit value True - When the user clicks Try Again(Button)"

At the end, a slide trigger is also added. "Set state of Try Again - "Try Again" to visited, when the timeline starts on this layer.

Condition: if TryAgain_visit = value True".

I have uploaded a sample file for reference.

Regards,

Dipu Viswam

Hello,

Thanks to David Anderson for explaining a method in YouTube, with the help of motion path.

I made a try with minor changes and is working fine.

I am uploading the sample file. We can change the number of attempts.

Regards,

Dipu Viswam

Hi Dipu,

Thank you for sharing your file with this thread! I'm glad to hear that David's explanation was helpful! to you. If you run into any trouble, just let us know!