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emilygill
Community Member
7 years ago

How to Change the State of a Group with a Single Trigger?

Hi all! I'm new to Storyline and am having an issue adding "change state" triggers to a group. Here's the issue: when prompted to select the object I want to change the state of, it doesn't list the...
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MichaelGallaghe
Community Member
6 years ago

The way to handle this is as follows. Let's say you have a rectangle with text (Your main button). You also have an image that will be part of the button. You currently have them grouped together. First, ungroup the button shape and image. Now, Select the image, Cut it (Ctrl X). Now click on the rectangle with text (main button) and select the "States" tab. You paste the image into the state of the button. Now, when you want to change the states with triggers, you are controlling the rectangle and the image because they are one piece. See the video attached.

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    MarcelDomanski
    Community Member
    4 years ago
    Michael Gallagher

    The way to handle this is as follows. Let's say you have a rectangle with text (Your main button). You also have an image that will be part of the button. You currently have them grouped together. First, ungroup the button shape and image. Now, Select the image, Cut it (Ctrl X). Now click on the rectangle with text (main button) and select the "States" tab. You paste the image into the state of the button. Now, when you want to change the states with triggers, you are controlling the rectangle and the image because they are one piece. See the video attached.

    Thanks a lot, for that workaround!

     

    Are there any plans for the future, to integrate the possibility to state groups?
    The common workflow (mine, at least) from other design programs is to start from scratch, build your button/menu/object/.. , group it and then add some states/behavior to it. 
    This workaround feels a bit... fiddly..