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Help with Triggers!
I have tried every variation of the triggers and states but now I am stumped. The attached slide has the most logical (to me) variables and triggers.
I have a slide that has three buttons. I have layers that corespond to the buttons. Each button moves to a layer that, when the learner clicks the button on that layer, a lightbox slide with markers appears. Once the learner has visited all the layers, clicked the button on each layer, then the hidden forward button should change from hidden to normal.
The problem I am having is, either the forward button shows when all the buttons on the start layer have been visited (not the button on the layer) and the forward button shows before the last layer button has been visited or, the forward button never goes into the normal state.
I am not sure if I have communicated this very well, it makes more sense when you view the slide. I would appreciate any help with this.
You're doing more work than needed.
You don't need triggers to change the state of an object on the slide to Hidden or Disabled when the timeline starts. Instead, adjust its Initial State. For example:
- IMHO, any object in the Disabled state should look different than Normal. Your "X" buttons don't.
You also don't need triggers to change an object to Visited when clicked.
- Any object with a Visited state will automatically change to that state when clicked. Here's more info about built-in functionality: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/primer-take-advantage-of-built-in-states/777134
You want to enable return/exit buttons after the user click all the markers. That can be done with a simple trigger that checks the states:
Showing the extra slides in lightboxes is an issue. When you do that, you lose the ability to use "when timeline starts" triggers on the main slide, because the user never really leaves that slide.
Since your course isn't using the player anyway, I suggest you just jump to the extra slides. (Add extra identifying text to them as needed.)
See what I mean in the attached file. I didn't clean up all the triggers, but I hope this gets you going in the right direction.
FYI: You might also find these posts helpful:
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You're doing more work than needed.
You don't need triggers to change the state of an object on the slide to Hidden or Disabled when the timeline starts. Instead, adjust its Initial State. For example:
- IMHO, any object in the Disabled state should look different than Normal. Your "X" buttons don't.
You also don't need triggers to change an object to Visited when clicked.
- Any object with a Visited state will automatically change to that state when clicked. Here's more info about built-in functionality: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/primer-take-advantage-of-built-in-states/777134
You want to enable return/exit buttons after the user click all the markers. That can be done with a simple trigger that checks the states:
Showing the extra slides in lightboxes is an issue. When you do that, you lose the ability to use "when timeline starts" triggers on the main slide, because the user never really leaves that slide.
Since your course isn't using the player anyway, I suggest you just jump to the extra slides. (Add extra identifying text to them as needed.)
See what I mean in the attached file. I didn't clean up all the triggers, but I hope this gets you going in the right direction.
FYI: You might also find these posts helpful:
Thank you so much for the feedback. Since this is not usually my task and it's been a few years, I am definitly not on my game yet. Your help was invaluable and I was able to complete the module and everything worked as it should. Thank you again,
You're welcome. Pay it forward when you can! 😀
