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osupace
Community Member
9 years ago

Is there a way to indent sub-bullet points in a list?

I have made a list, but I'd like to further indent some bullets, similar to the Sub-bullet text below. Is this possible? Sample  Sample  Sub-bullet Sub-bullet Sample
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DonaldKerns
Community Member
8 years ago
  • While you can create bullets and sub-bullets by formatting the text, if your text is long (or the user views on a smaller device) the Rise approach to formatting means bullets/sub-bullets wrap back to the left margin (so you do not truly get bullets/sub-bullets).
  • Because Articulate has not provided an editor which allows editing the HTML, the formatting often gets corrupt by incorporating other lines of text and authors often have to start over because we have no HTML control (i.e., nested lists can easily be edited if a true HTML editor is provided). 
  • Rise Lists
    • The Rise Numbered List and Checkbox list (blocks) work well for the numbered lists and checkbox lists (although I would like more control over bullet/text and line spacing and editing them is a pain because each is a separate item).
    • However, (1) the "Bulleted List" block is almost useless because of the small bullets used (almost invisible on an iPhone 5), (2) the distance away from the text is too large, and (3) there is no ability to change the bullet - authors should be able to pick any available character or glyph, e.g., Bootstrap, Google, etc.). Note the difference in distance between the bullets and text in this Articulate Community editor vs the Rise "Bulleted list" block. (see attached file)
    • You cannot use the Rise Lists within any other blocks such as Interactive > Accordion (your only option is to format the text as bullet/sub-bullet and let the text wrap back to the margin...).
    • You cannot indent or use sub-bullets in any of the Rise List blocks. Why?
    • We would love to see a responsive two-column lists (e.g., when small screen, move the column 2 list below the column 1 list). This would be similar to the Image/Text block already provided). With no control over the spacing of list text/items, we need to be able to create two-column lists to save vertical space.
  • I know of no other eLearning software with text formatting that does not provide hanging indent capability! Actually, I don't know of any software or online system that uses the Rise approach to formatting bulleted (or numbered) lists!
  • Interestingly, the Rise text editor doesn't work anything like this Articulate Community editor (which properly format bullets/sub-bullets as hanging indents -- mostly, since the sub-bullet incorrectly uses the same bullet character regardless of the number of levels). If Articulate programmers need to reference something that works, start with your own Community editor!
  • EVERY SME who has reviewed a Rise project for us has asked about the formatting of these bullets/sub-bullets (wrapping to left margin). It is ugly and does not appear as most users expect.
  • When you dig down into the generated HTML for a Rise project, it isn’t that Articulate hasn't been using nested <ul> and <li> to create their formatted bullets/sub-bullets -- instead, the problem is that they are intentionally applying CSS styles that make it appear so ugly/misformed! THIS IS A BUG NOT A FEATURE! PLEASE FIX YOUR CSS! Create and apply new styles, if necessary.
    • Honestly, we should not even have to ask Articulate for such an obvious fix...this and the ability to move blocks/groups of blocks between lessons and courses should have been incorporated into Rise long ago...
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