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Hidden Developer Notes
Hi JeanMarrapodi-c! In my Storyline projects, I create a separate scene for design and branding notes, which I hide from the menu to ensure it's not visible in the course. Alternatively, you can place a text box "off stage" (outside the slide area) for developer notes on specific slides. Just remember to hide the text box in the accessibility settings.
A simple internal method would be to create an additional slide in the project, maybe in its own scene, and not link it to anything. Then, create whatever note-type information you want on that slide. When finished, select the Show/Hide All icon in the top left of the timeline for that slide.
Hidden content does not get published. If you examine the web-published output for a project, you will find the slide contents listed under \html5\data\js. IN that folder, there will be a list of files named [some random text].js, one for each side. The random text is the slide ID (SL variable Slide.Id). Comparing one of these files between two published versions, one with visible content and one with hidden content (timeline hidden, not hidden states) will show that the hidden content is missing from the slide.
Nathan_Hilliard : I did some testing and discovered that even hidden text on a wouldn't-be-published slide is included when Exporting for Translations. (See attached files.)
I'm going to submit this as a case to the staff, because that just doesn't seem right...
I suppose the reason for that is that the developer may need to unhide content in the future, so all available content in the project is translated. Upon publishing, the hidden content should presumably still be absent. I haven't verified that however.
It does seem that the hidden slide content is still absent, even after translation. It's likely a convenience to translate everything at once.
Never experienced this aspect of Storyline before. Thanks for the prompt.
