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Enabling Next Button Upon Revisiting a Slide
Hey all!
I have a lot of Paused Timeline interactions in my slides, and don't want my users to skip a slide, so I have manually set the triggers to have my Next button's state as Disabled when the...
Hi!
I am having the same issue with the disabled next button. I followed the instructions with the variables on this thread, but it still isn't showing up correctly when revisiting the slide.
Could you check these two slides to see what the "user error" is?
Thank you so much!
Best,
Nia
Hi, Nia,
Walt is correct (as usual).
FYI: Depending on the length of your course and the number of interactive slides, you might want to set the overall navigation to Restricted. When that's done in the Player, Storyline will automatically disable the Next button until the timeline ends. And it will keep it enabled after that. No triggers are needed.
To ensure users complete interactions, you would add triggers using unique variables, as discussed in this thread. Those triggers would override the built-in restriction function, so the Next would only enable when your triggers tell it to.
This post provides more details and a demo file for both ways of controling the Next button:
