Icons Inserted Play to end of Slide and can't control timing in Storyline 360

Hi there Robert,

I can understand why you would be frustrated! Those icons definitely shouldn't appear at the end of the timeline, and I'm sure you don't want to manually change the timing for every icon.

Have you checked that the blue playhead is located at "0" seconds when you insert the icon? Here's a Peek that explains what I mean.

Let me know if that helps!

Yes the playhead is at 0...it has to do with them being inserted with "Play until end" already marked AND no timing option when I right click.

To be clear, images insert this way too, but they usually have the timing option available.

In either case, having to go and adjust EVERY image, shape, and icon I insert is a giant time suck...and honestly a pretty basic thing to fix.

I know this is not the first time it has been mentioned though couldn't find any actual discussions about it.

(FYI I got a bad gateway error when trying to view your PEEK screencast.)

Do you have an example to share? I inserted a number of icons and didn't run into the issue. Can share a slide with some icons on it that have the issue?

When you have grouped objects, you won't see the timing option except inside the group on individual objects.

Some of the icons are single vectors (which will show the timing) and some are grouped vectors (which doesn't as a group). 

That's how the vectors were created so there's not much we can do at this end and unfortunately, there's not a way to know which ones are grouped vs not-grouped before inserting.

With that said, inside the group, you can select all of the objects on the timeline and set the timing at once and not have to do ti for each element.

Apologies for sounding negative above, but it makes little sense to me why we are beholden to this rigidity in terms of default timing.

And as for the grouped vectors, I feel there is a mechanism to allow for timing as group, just as if I were to take three objects and manually group them, I could then adjust the timing of the newly formed group.

Surely there is a way for that same functionality to be applied to icons with grouped parts?

No need to apologize, I can see your perspective on it. 

We do want to make the software as efficient and functional as possible. If you want a specific feature to control those default settings, you are always welcome to submit a feature request. The developers review all of the requests and prioritize them based on demand and other points of value.

As far as grouping of other objects, they work just liked the grouped vectors. They also have the absence of the timing feature. This makes sense because one can have multiple objects on the slide and each could have different timing and they could all be in the same group.

The feature to move them all is to open the group, select them all, and then access the timing. 

Hello, 

Is there an update to this issue? 

Hi Colette,

Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community! ✨

Since this is an older post and there have been many updates in Storyline 360, I want to ask you some follow-up questions to understand better how to help you.

• Can you explain in more detail the issue you are experiencing?
• Does this issue happen with every .story file or one particular file?

If you're comfortable sharing your project with us, you can upload it here or privately in a support case so we can investigate the issue. We will delete it from our systems once troubleshooting is complete.

Hi Colette,

Thanks for the additional information. We still do not have any updates on when this feature will be changed, but I can confirm that a request has already been raised to our product team for the ability to change the default setting 'Show until the end of the timeline' when inserting objects. We'll let everyone in this forum know when an update becomes available!