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IF...ELSE
I am super happy to see this. I wanted this feature since V1. Thank you, Articulate, for an early Christmas gift :)
I don't work for Articulate, and I don't have access to your project, so I couldn't try out Joe's suggestions to see if they are helpful to you. So I spent a few minutes following your instructions, and this is how I went.
I noticed five things:
1. Both commands and both Else conditions worked perfectly. (I included a trigger to change the value of the variable, to make it easier to test.)
2. The user doesn't see the slide thumbnails, but they navigate through the slides in the order I chose.
3. The built-in menu works correctly.
4. If I remove the Next button from the first slide, it changes the thumbnails in the story view, and ONLY the thumbnails.
5. Removing the else condition from the first slide changes nothing in the project.
If you preview this story, I think you will conclude (as I have) that the else command is not causing a problem. If it is a problem that the project works perfectly, but the thumbnail view is off, make sure that slide 1 has a trigger whose first option is jump to next slide, as in scene 2.
I do agree it seems a bit strange that in the thumbnails, story view handles a primary branch one way and a conditional branch another way. I imagine somebody forgot a bit of code, but since it doesn't change anything, it doesn't seem like a problem to me. I just pretend I see it the way I want it to look. :)
Hi Walt,
Sorry, I get a bit miffed when the tech support makes me test things and do all sorts of screenshots of their software issues adding to the workload of my day.
I can't get the else to work if I put it in the order of jump slide else show layer, but it works the other way.
Yes, my thumbnails went out of sequence (number-wise) as well when I pasted them in.
thanks for your help!
Hi Victoria,
Thanks for sharing the steps. Similar to Walt, I also was unable to to observe any issues with the ELSE condition. I've attached the file that I used for testing so you can see if I setup the slides and tested it correctly.
If my files works for you, would you be willing to share a copy of your project file here or in private by opening a support case so we can take a closer look at what's happening? We'll delete it when we're done testing!
