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Layers Not Displaying Properly During Authoring But Display Properly in Preview
I've had that happen to me. Scary, indeed. Fortunately, the fix was easy. I had inadvertently clicked the eye icon for the base.
When you deselect that, it's telling the program that you don't want to see the base while you're editing. So if the area to the right of "(Base Layer)" is blank, click it so the eye icon—and the base—will show.
FYI: This post has more info about visibility control/concerns: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/cant-see-the-base-from-a-layer-or-is-it-just-dimmed-is-that-what-you-want-heres-/825929
Thank you for replying, Judy. I believe the problem is elsewhere.
The erratic behavior of hiding/unhiding and dimming the base layer only happens in the Slide Mode. When I preview the scene, all the slides behave as expected. When I close the Preview Mode, and go back to the Slide Mode, the erratic behavior returns.
Each of my slides is created from a couple of "generic" slides that I copy and paste from the end of the scene. Yet, the erratic behavior varies from one slide to the next. If the parent slide is copied repeatedly, the mistake should show itself consistently on all its children.
Further, when I open an earlier version of the program that I created days ago, the erratic behavior again exhibits itself in the Slide Mode. The layers displayed properly when I created the slides. Again, the slides play correctly when previewed or published.
Up to this point, I have created hundreds of slides for my first program without issue. This just started out of nowhere yesterday.
Kind Regards, Frank
The eye (visibility) icon I described in my previous reply only hides the base when editing in Slide Mode. The base would still appear when previewed or published.
And if that icon is deselected when a slide is duplicated, it will also be deselected on the copy(copies). So the same behavior would "show itself consistently on all its children."
If you look at the erratic slides in your project, and the eye icon isn't visible, the problem is what I described before.
If the eye icon is visible (and no other setting hides the base), but the base doesn't show when you view a layer, then the slides may have been corrupted.
- In that case, contact support: https://access.articulate.com/support/contact