How to disable "Hit Enter Key to Advance Slide "

Hello Ciara and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

When there's a data-entry field on a question slide, pressing the Enter key on the keyboard submits your response for evaluation. In other words, pressing the Enter key on the following question slides is the same as clicking the Submit button.

• Graded—Fill in the Blank
• Graded—Numeric
• Survey—Short Answer
• Survey—How Many
• Freeform—Text Entry

You can press Shift+Enter to add line breaks to short-answer surveys and ungraded freeform text-entry questions when the fields are tall enough to allow multiple lines of text.

Essay questions behave differently than other question slides since they're likely to have multiple paragraphs. You can press Enter or Shift+Enter to add a line break (return) in essays.

Hi! I am replying on this thread, as I think someone here may be able to help me. I am trying to disable the enter key from advancing to the next slide, on a slide that I have a text entry box in - the question requires multiple answers, which I want the user to be able to separate by line breaks

(ex: MRI

Cat Scan

Brain Biopsy)

However, when you hit the enter key, it automatically advances to the next slide. I have no triggers set up for this, it is just automatically doing it. How do I disable this from happening? 

I am attaching the project, it is specifically slide 1.6 and 1.10

Thanks!

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/c44ea6ef-71d6-475a-94ea-9bca5ea18f3e/review

Hi Michael!

You're one step ahead! Thanks for sharing your file!

After testing out a number of triggers, I found these two lead to the perfect outcome! 

Try them out and let me know if this fits what you're looking for!

Hello Leslie,

I was experiencing the same issue. I have a text box for the user to enter the information required. There is also a timer on these slides. The user should be able to advance before the timer runs out, but only if they have submitted an answer. However, the way I have it set up now if the user hits ENTER, they are able to advance without putting an answer. 

Hi Bobby,

Not at this time. It's still open with our team. You are in the right place to be notified of any updates that we have to share and I've updated the reported impact as well.

I wanted to share some information on how we define bugs and how we tackle them when they occur.

Hi All,

Have this one been fixed? 

Hi,

You might have this sneaky trigger. :)

Restricting the navigation is different than manually hiding or disabling the next button, which is what it sounded like you experienced.

If you'd like to share your .story file, I'll take a closer look.

I did disable next as well, that didn't work if you hit next and reached next slide and hit enter. That will go to the slide after next. And you keep hitting Enter, you keep skipping content even I set disable Next for all slides.

Hi Philippe,

This is an issue that we have reported to our team.

I will add this conversation to the report as we continue investigating and so that we can update you here when we can.

We do have a workaround listed:

• Delete the trigger that hides the Next button when timeline starts.
• Restrict the navigation so that the Next button will be in its disabled state.
• Use a trigger that would make the Next button Normal when timeline reaches x seconds.