I'm trying to set one of my elearning slides so that the Next button (on the player) doesn't appear until four objects on the slide have been visited. Any help would be appreciated. ThanksMichelle

Change the trigger that sets Next to normal. I know when you use the wizard that "State of..." is one of the options for the When part of the trigger, but it doesn't work. There is nothing to make it happen. States do not initiate triggers. They are very useful in conditions. Write your trigger to change Next to Normal when the timeline starts if all those objects are in their desired state. FWIW: You do not need to write a trigger to set the state to Visited, the built-in visited state does that for you. That said, "Visited" state is not always stable, especially if you visit other slides, and especially if they have branching on them. I prefer to use a custom state, like "Completed". If you do that, then you will need a trigger to set it.

Added triggers for each box "Change state of [box #] to Selected when user clicks." Don't. All objects that have a selected state have built-in magic that changes their state to Selected when you click it, and back to Normal when you click again. The same goes for Hover, and the other built-in states. Creating your own triggers to do the same thing will only confuse SL, and a confused SL will often create some incredible, unbelievable, but seldom useful results. I know when you use the wizard that "State of..." is one of the options for the When part of the trigger, but it doesn't work. There is nothing to make it happen. States do not initiate triggers. They are very useful in conditions. This is a known bug that doesn't work if there are more than five triggers on a slide. The trigger you need is "Change state of Next to Normal When user clicks Box1 on condition state of Box2 is Selected, AND state of Box3 is Selected AND ... etc. " You need one of these for each box.

Hey Adam! I'm happy to lend a hand! No need to pull any more hair out. 😁 I made a few changes in your file, and now the next button is disabled until all three layers have been viewed. Here's a summary of what I did: Add this trigger: Change state of Next button to Disabled when timeline starts. Add a "Done" state to each graph on the base layer. Add a trigger on each graph: Change state of graph to Done when the mouse hovers over. Add a trigger: Change state of Next button to Normal when state of all 3 graphs are "Done." Check out those changes in your file, and let me know what you think!

Regarding usability and best practice, it would be better to disable the Next/Prev buttons rather than hide them altogether.

Hi Michelle Set the initial state of the Next button to hidden Create a trigger on the slide - change state of Next button to normal when state of 'all of xxx are visited'

Hide Next button until objects have been visited

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BrianSamonek-67
Community Member
5 years ago
Hey Leslie,

Like everybody else, I am having the exact same problem. I want next button to be disabled until a series of 6 shapes are visited. I think I set mine up just like yours. However, the next button never starts as disabled! (and as you can guess, I want it to start as disabled). I hope you are still working at Articulate and can help me! Brian
Next_Button.story5 MB
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
5 years ago
Hello Brian and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

I'm still here and I'd be happy to help you.

I appreciate you sharing a .story file so that I could take a look at what you created. Here's a quick Peek 360 video as I took a look at your file.

I created an example for you in the attached file. Your example is Scene 1 and my example is Scene 2 so that you can compare.
LMNextButton.story5.2 MB
- BrianSamonek-67
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Leslie,
  
  This was by far the most comprehensive and helpful reply I have received.... in quite some time! I really appreciate you explaining it to me in the video and the attachment was just icing on the cake. Thank you! I get it now.
  
  As far as the capital "F" thing goes in False... Let's just say, I would have never, ever, ever have figured that out on my own!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
5 years ago
I'm glad that I could help, Brian. Thank you for the kind words.
- BrianSamonek-67
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Leslie,
  
  Your advice worked perfectly, and-- god knows-- I must have gotten real full of myself, because I tried to recreate the same dynamic on a different screen, thinking: Oh, I know how to do this now! NO PROBLEM! But then, of course, it didn't work yet again: Exit button that is supposed to appear after all the others are visited. The exit button in question is in the Intro scene. Pic attached.
  
  ALSO, the advice you gave me yesterday for step slides (pic attached): for the next button to be disabled until all the steps are visited-- worked just perfectly when the files were separated. However, I just noticed that the disabled next button on the steps slides is also no longer working when all of the scenes are gathered together in a larger file. Is this maybe just an issue with the review site?
  
  June_23_combo_Copy_Copy.story47.1 MB
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
5 years ago
No worries, Brian. Thanks for sharing the details of what you see now. We can look at these one at a time:

Exit button that is supposed to appear after all the others are visited.
I'd first recommend adjusting the 'When' on your trigger to when the timeline starts on this slide:

Also, you have the variable set to adjust on the states of the text boxes, but there are no states on these items. The states, still no visited state, are listed on the Rounded Rectangle Shapes. So, the variable is not adjusting, which is why you do not see the Exit button.

The disabled next button on the steps slides is no longer working when all of the scenes are gathered together in a larger file.
It looks like it's working on the slide we worked on together, which is Slide 3.7 in your project:

Are you referring to the next slide, 3.8?

I can see that you're using the same variable, which is why the Next button is displaying. You adjusted the variable on the previous slide. You will need a different variable for additional slides.

This should get everything working as expected.
ScottTaylor-649
Community Member
5 years ago
I am able to set the "next" button to hidden and then visible again as the state of the objects (markers) clicked on changed to visited. The problem I am having is if someone goes to the previous screen, the next button is hidden even though the marker's state is still visited. Thus one cannot move forward in the training. Is there a way to enable someone moving back and forth in the training? Thanks!
MariaCS
Staff
5 years ago
Hi, Scott, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

It sounds like you are using a trigger that Changes the state of the next button to disabled when the timeline starts, and another that changes it back to normal when the state of all of the markers is Visited.

If that's the case, when the user moves forward, then returns to that slide, the first trigger that Storyline sees is the one to disable the button. Unless the user clicks the markers again, those states will not be verified.

One possible solution is to add conditions to your first trigger, so it only disables the next button if none of the markers are in the visited state:

Let me know if this works, or feel free to share your .story file if you'd like me to take a look at your project.