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How to restart the timeline with a trigger
Hi,
I want to use only custom made buttons, but now I have a problem with a timeline animation.
I made a pause button that shows a layer on which the base layer is paused and a play button on that layer. It works perfectly.
But I can not seem to make a trigger that resets the timeline for the baseslide. (just a restart button)
(going away from the slide and returning only results in resuming the timeline where it was)
Can anyone help me with a simple solution?
Thanks!
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Hi James,
The trigger to jump to a slide or show a layer again would need to have something inbetween to help reset the initial slide/layer. Just thinking outloud here - did you look at a trigger to show a new layer, and have that layer include a trigger to hide itself/show the previous layer at timeline start?
This discussion is a bit older, so perhaps others are no long subscribed, but if you wanted to share a copy of your file it may help clarify what you're looking to achieve and then the community can weigh in with some other ideas!
thank you. this thread was incredibly helpful. I just duplicated my layer and set it to show the original layer when timeline starts. On the original layer I have a Reset All custom button. I put a trigger on it to show the duplicate layer. Works like a charm.
Glad you didn't delete this thread!! Did not realize that the layers could ALSO be reset to initial state.
Haha! Glad it was able to help you here Ashley :) Exactly why we don't delete them.
So glad that this thread was able to help you out as well Keithia :) Thanks for chiming in to share.
I have a question regarding the initial matter. I want to restart the timeline but only with a trigger button. Not when I revisit the slide.
Hello Christos and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
The two behaviors are tied together as they would be based on the Slide Properties being 'Reset to initial state':
Check out this sample slide where a button has been added with a simple trigger to jump to the same slide. File attached.
Hi and thanks for the quick response. I found a solution to separate these two function. Basically, I had an audio and I wanted to replay it only when I wanted and not everytime I was visiting the slide. So I simply moved the audio to a side layer where I changed its property to 'Reset to initial state'. So with a button, I was replaying the audio through the side layer.
Thanks for your help!
Awesome. Glad you were able to figure out what you needed and I appreciate you chiming back in to share :)
Well, thank you for NOT deleting this, i found it useful for a project i am working on!
Btw, the above works well for resetting all on the slide, but not audio, any ideas on that?
