Glossary Question

Do you have any updates for Storyline 2? Thanks

Hi Indrani,

No updates are planned for Storyline 2 at this time.  The majority of feature updates will only be delivered to Articulate 360 (Storyline 360) as our first priority. The vast majority of our customers are using Articulate 360, so that’s where we’re putting our focus. We know some folks are unable to switch to subscription plans or cloud apps, and if there’s anything we can do to help you make the case for Articulate 360, let us know. We’re happy to help. 

We’re continuing to support Storyline 3 with bug fixes, but we aren’t adding any major new features to Storyline 3 or sharing a release schedule. 

Thanks, Ashley.  I appreciate your response.  We are unable to switch owing to budgetary constraints.  Thanks for responding. Best

Indrani

Hello. Responding to receive updates on the linking to glossary term enhancement.

Guess what? You can create a more responsive glossary. It takes a little more work, but it's certainly doable.

Just put your terms on a slide, and add an tab in the Player that lightboxes that slide. (Refer to Articulate's tutorials if you don't know how to do that.)

Lots of options for how to design a glossary. For example, for a large glossary, create separate layers for words that begin with each letter. Then create a button for each letter on the base layer, and have each button show the corresponding layer. On a given layer, put the terms in a table within a scrolling field.

You could also add a trigger to any term/object on a slide that would lightbox the glossary slide. Doing that, you could even use a variable so the glossary would show a given layer. (No way to display a given word, unless you put the words on different layers.)

Here's a simple one that I shared years ago:  https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-2-glossary-slide. It's only programmed for a set number of terms, so you'd have to add or delete buttons based on your needs. It could be used for any number of terms, but, frankly, that would get unwieldy. It's best for smaller glossaries.

Caveats: Part of the extra work is that you have to put the words in the proper order. Also, a custom glossary slide would be quite difficult to work with if the course needs to be translated. Words would have to be re-sorted manually. And some other languages use completely different characters, so having buttons for A, B, C, etc. would be meaningless.

Joining conversation to receive updates on glossary enhancement. Thanks.

Interested in this feature

Interested in this feature

Also interested in this feature. Hope you will add it soon. 

Also interested in this feature addition for Storyline.