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Help with Triggers
Hi,
I am relatively novice with storyline 360 and just need an interactive slide. I am familiar with layers, etc. Attached is a picture of the slide I'm working on. Basically I want someone to cli...
Hello,
Thank you! I have attached a file if anyone has a few spare minutes to look at it.
1. I would like people to click on the circle and have the text appear, and then the example appear in the light blue bar.
2. I have created layers for each example
3. The circles (aside from the first one) correctly display the text when clicked upon, however only the first layer opens.
Any assistance on navigating what key piece i'm missing in the background is greatly appreciated.
Your slide is way more complicated than it needs to be. The attached file has an edited version. Here's a summary of what I did:
- I adjusted the Selected state of each circle-button to make it more visually different from the Normal state. I also gave them a Visited state.
- I deleted the Selected and Visited states from the associated text boxes on the base. Those have an Initial State of Hidden. They only need a Normal state to be shown.
- On the layers, I deleted everything except the text box with the example.
- Your layers had copies of the objects from the base. That's unnecessary--and it makes it virtually impossible to properly control what's showing.
- FYI: On the Master Blank Feedback Layout, I formatted its background to No Fill. This allows the objects on the base to show through.
- I renamed buttons to start with "b[#]" so they appear in order in the Trigger panel. (I also renamed the text boxes and the layers with matching numbers. This just makes it easier to program and troubleshoot.
- For the text boxes on the layers, I adjusted the margins and also left-aligned the text. (It's harder for folks to parse text that's centered.)
Oh my gosh, you are a wizard. Thank you so much - I am so thankful to learn so much from this!! I appreciate it more than you know.
I'm glad my edited version is helpful.
FYI: Here's the User Guide info about layers and states:
- https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-work-with-slide-layers
- https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-add-and-edit-states
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