How to disable "Hit Enter Key to Advance Slide "

Hi, Kent, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

Thank you for reaching out! 

It sounds like restricting the navigation would work for you:

1. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Player.
2. Click Menu on the player properties ribbon, then click the gear icon at the bottom of the window for additional menu options.
3. Use the Navigation Restrictions drop-down list to choose Restricted.
   • Restricted means learners can view the current slide and any slide they previously viewed, but they can't jump ahead or skip over slides.
4. Mark the box to Restrict Next/Previous buttons. (It's marked by default.)
5. Click OK twice to close the menu options and the player properties.

Let me know if this works!

Hi,

My question is similar.  I have the next key disabled but I would like it to be enabled if a person uses the previous key to review slides.  I do not want them to have to watch slides they have seen before.  Is there a way to activate the next key if the previous key has been selected?

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.