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Is there method to manage the visited state of the default menu?
1) Articulate doesn't provide a way to adjust when the tick mark appears on the built-in Menu. A slide is marked when its timeline starts. (That behavior could probably be altered with JavaScript, but I can't help with that.)
2) You can track completion of any slide using a variable. For example, create a T/F variable with the default value of False. Add a trigger that changes the variable to True when the slide/interaction is complete.
- The "when" in the trigger might be when the timeline ends, when designated objects are in a Visited state, when the user reaches the final layer in a Carousel activity, or whatever means the slide is completed.
- A variable's value stays the same until a trigger changes it. And the value can be accessed from any slide. That means you could use the value of a slide's T/F variable to control what happens elsewhere in the course.
FYI: The interactive slides in your Sample file have a trigger to disable the Next button when the timeline starts.
- That trigger will run every time the user visits the slide, which means the Next button will be disabled even if they already completed the interaction on a previous visit.
- To prevent that from happening, the trigger needs some kind of condition(s).
- This post has a demo for different ways to control the Next button: TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
It’s worth the effort to learn about variables and trigger conditions, because they provide the real power in Storyline. Here’s more info:
Dear Judy,
Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate your help thus far. However, my query remains unresolved. Specifically, we are seeking to have control over the default menu selection, as outlined in the original post.