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Highlighted layers keep looping
Hello all. I have this file that as the menu starts that voiceover explains the instructions, and then a series of Highlight layers engage at time intervals starting at 8seconds while th anarration i...
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Hi MarshallHart700! Thank you for sharing your file! I see exactly what you're running into. I believe the solution here is to set the When Revisiting setting in the Slide Properties to Resume Saved State. This will make sure the learner picks up where they left off rather than having the timeline start over and not show the progress.
Let me know if you have any additional questions!
Thank you for this, I think this logic should have worked, but the result I got, was that when returning to the slide after clicking one of the seven menu buttons on the right side, the button that was chosen shoudl have a state change to visited (greeen), but it does not, and the blinking option layers still highlight after a certain amount of time. So I think there is still something missing.
When trying to set up the highlighting menu choices initially, I did this by making 8 layers of the main slide, but i copied these layers after all of the slide was set up so the audio etc. got copied over 8 times. I am not sure if this is my issue because the audio is now not repeating, but the timeline does repeat.
Thanks for making me aware of the slide properties I think that will be useful moving forward, but not a fix in this instance, if you have any other advice, I am all ears and friustrated because this is 95% where I want it to be, but not quite.
Hi Marshall,
Sorry to hear about your frustration regarding this design issue. I'm happy to help!
I understand you need to have the highlight layers appear only at the start of the interaction, not when the learner has clicked on any of the buttons. I was able to achieve this requirement by applying these steps:
1. Add a variable to monitor whether one of the buttons has been clicked.
2. In the base layer (Title), add a condition in all the 'Show layer' triggers so they are only executed when the "JumpedOutOfMenu" variable is False.
3. In the 'Title - Copy' layer, add a trigger to adjust the "JumpedOutOfMenu" variable to True when the learner clicks the buttons. I've made the changes above to the attached Storyline course, and this adjust variable trigger to the first button. Feel free to test these changes on your end using the attached file. The first button should work. You will need to add the adjust variable trigger to all the buttons.
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have additional questions.
