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Having Trouble Dropping an Object Into a Scrolling Panel
I have a presentation with a few scrolling panels, and up until about a week ago, I had no problems adding new objects into my scrolling panels. Lately, however, I can't get anything to stick in the panel. I am trying to add a new image to the panel by dragging the object with my cursor over the panel and letting go. When I then try to scroll, the object is just in front of the panel not in it.
Help?
I was having this issue too but closing Storyline and reopening the project fixed it.
Thanks for sharing your tip, Jack!
Just as tip here! When adding items/shapes etc to the scrolling panel you need to drag the items onto the grey area or desktop of Storyline out of the slide and then place them into the scrolling panel.
I am adding this as a reminder to myself as always forget to do this.
I'm having the same issue: I can't get anything to go inside of the scrolling panel. Can I just say, and I know I'm not alone here, I HATE scrolling panels!
Hello Andrea,
I want to confirm that you are working locally with the files as described here. Also, you may want to import the files into a new file and see if this helps.
If you continue to have issues, you may want to look at the article here.
Thank you David! Dragging the item to the desktop and then into the scrolling panel was exactly what I needed to know! Much appreciated!
I know this is an old topic, but I just ran into a possible solution.
If you are working with nested grouped objects (group within a group), it doesn't work correctly. After un-grouping everything, then making into a single group, drag/drop worked fine.
I've used this method twice now and it has worked great.
Thanks for sharing this with the E-Learning Heroes community, Matthew!
One thing that can help is to be sure your cursor is well within the panel before dropping the object. Sometimes I’ve been successful dragging the object onto the panel on the timeline.
It just speaks to the poor design of the feature that there are so many believed solutions to this issue, but none of them are reliable, and there's always someone else with their own possible solution/recommendation...
I appreciate the tip, Walt, but I am positive my cursor was well within the panel before dropping the object. There must have been something wrong with just the one panel because I have since moved on to other slides with new scrolling panels in them and they behave as expected. Just yet another bug in StoryLine, I suppose.
Hi Wendy,
I'm sorry to hear that you've been experiencing this issue. If it occurs again, I'd like to connect you with one of our Support Engineers so we can take a closer look at what's going on.
