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Enabling Custom and Player Next Buttons
Hey Everyone-
This is the second time I am coming for advice and expertise on Storyline 360 next button functionality (though, this time it is a different issue). I think we are quickly becoming foes 🤜💥🤛
I have set a custom next button and the next arrow on the player toolbar to be disabled until all the buttons have been selected on the slide. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but even after all the buttons have been visited, both buttons remain disabled.
I've attached the slide in question for review.
Thank you in advance!-
Susan
You don't need a trigger to change the custom Next button to Hidden when the timeline starts. Just set its Initial State to Hidden.
The reason the Next buttons never change to Normal is because the 4 other buttons are never all Visited.
- A button with a Visited state automatically changes to Visited when it is clicked.
- However, you have triggers on the layers that change the buttons to Disabled and then back to Normal.
- That's why the enable-Next triggers don't run.
This would have been noticeable to you if the button states looked different. But since your buttons look the same in all states, you couldn't see the problem.
Easy solution:
- Delete all the triggers on the layers that change button states to Disabled and back to Normal.
- On each layer, show semi-transparent shapes over the buttons when the timeline starts. Those should indicate the buttons are disabled.
- On each layer, hide those semi-transparent shapes when the timeline ends.
Alternately, you could set the Slide Layer Properties to prevent users from clicking on the base. If you do that, you'd need to add a button to close the layer. But since there should still be a visual indication that the buttons can't be clicked, I suggest you just use the solution described above.
Hey Judy-
Thanks for the consist help on the discussion boards! You are always a huge help.
Yeah, I can't change the format of the button states for some reason, or I would have made them visibly different.
When you say, "on each layer, hide those semi-transparent shapes when the timeline ends", am I just removing the "show until end" feature for each semi-transparent shape and leaving a bit of space between the end of the timeline and the shapes?
