Help with Triggers!

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: 

• https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/tip-create-a-custom-menu-slide/1030699 
• https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/tip-controlling-the-next-button-101/873348