FREEBIE: Interactive glossary for Storyline

This is a great (and blindingly obvious) solution to the basic glossary implementation in Storyline, so thank you very much for sharing. I plan to adapt this to our own corporate template this week.

It's also worth noting that this glossary solution allows for a much more feature rich glossary that can include images, audio or video.

A great idea and thanks again for sharing!

Articulate, take note for a forthcoming update!

Glad you found this helpful Rob.

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Just thought I'd add that I took your template a step further, Jeff, and fixed a problem I encountered.

The glossary we use in my company is quite a large one and I was very quickly coming up against a problem with the "Select a Term" area. When the number of terms overflowed the space given, I used the scrolling text function but then this rendered the hotspots useless as they wouldn't scroll with the text.

The blindingly obvious solution, after racking my brains for an hour or two, was to use the hyperlink function on the text of each term. This way, I can put as many terms in that area, using the scrolling function where necessary, and then simply highlight each term, right click and select 'Hyperlink...' and then change the trigger action from 'Jump to URL' to 'Show Layer'.

Works a treat!

I also added a marker on each slide to show which letter is currently selected.

Once I've got the project finished, I'll try and post an unbranded version for you to try.

Thanks again for the excellent source material and inspiration :-)

Thanks for this Jeff, I just downloaded to adapt and use in one of my projects, you saved me a lot of work!

Cool! It's awesome to see this 'old thing' is still so very popular. Would love to see the result Veronica!

the link on your blog doesn't work...

Hi Mhairi,

This thread is a bit dated, but I took a peek at Jeff's blog post and it seems everything is working as expected.

If it's the demo, be sure to try a different browser as he's sharing the HTML5 output directly. Otherwise, download the file to preview :)

Hope that helps and you are certainly welcome to reach out to the user directly via the 'Contact Me' option on the user profile if needed.

Would LOVE to use this glossary for a training that is including over 100 abbreviations... I just can't access the file/blog due to firewall at work. Any chance it can be posted here?

Welcome, Kelsey!

I'm happy to lend a hand there and have attached the .story file below. Thanks again to Jeff for sharing this great demo! 🌟

Thank you! still very useful. It is crazy...this subject is so old and Storyline still does not offer in build glossary search......