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Hotspot/changed states trigger query
Hey heroes!
I've created a hotspot activity where the user must click two hotspots to move to the next slide. The hotspots change the shapes to 'Hover' then 'Visited' states once clicked, and I was hoping to add a trigger which would move to the next slide once both shapes were in the 'Visited' state. However, this doesn't seem possible.
I've also tried adding a trigger whereby a 'next slide' button will appear once both hotspots have been clicked, but this also doesn't work. The issue seems to be that the shapes don't remain in their 'Visited' state once clicked?
I'm quite new to Storyline, so if anyone can offer guidance I'd be very grateful!
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The big disadvantage of using a hotspot is that it doesn't have states. You can avoid that problem by using a shape with a solid fill set to 100% transparency.
A shape can have whatever states you want. If it has a Visited state, it will change to that state automatically when it is clicked. And it should remain in that state (unless a trigger changes it).
One disadvantage of using a shape instead of a hotspot is that there's no way to turn off the cursor change that indicates something is clickable. However, a workaround for that is to add some shapes to "wrong" areas. Those could show a "no, not this" message when clicked as way to provide feedback and guide the user to the correct areas.
BTW, I suggest you give all interactive objects meaningful names. That makes it easier to program and to troubleshoot.
