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Limiting quiz attempts is not working
I am having issuse with limiting the number of attempts in my quizzes and don't know what to do. I have set up the variable so with a default value of 0 and set a trigger for my retry button that adds 1 every time the user presses the button. I Have set a trigger that changes the state of the button to disabled when the timeline starts on my failure layer if attempts = the value of 2
Both of my triggers have been moved to the top and I want to limit my quiz to 3 attempts (meaning the user can press the retry button two times).
Can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong or why it's not working?
Thank you in advance
/Mattis
Can you share a picture of your trigger panel on your failure layer?
Without seeing your .story file, it is impossible to know why it is not working.
I wonder if you can use a built-in quiz. They all come with all the functions you are describing. Choose Format, and select a number for the number of attempts. All those activities will automatically occur behind the scenes.
Of course, if you are using a made from scratch quiz, you will have to create everything. In that case, use the button below to attach your file to get some help.
My guess is that it could be a trigger order issue. You will want the adjust variable trigger to be first.
Hi Ron,
Absolutely I can! As far as I can tell it's not a trigger order issue since my triggers have been moved to the top. But curious to hear if you can tell what the heck I'm doing wrong 😅
/Mattis
Your trigger always sets the variable to 1, rather than adding to it. Click Set and change it to Add.
I still wonder why you have gone to all this work to recreate something that is built into the quiz automatically.
Walt is correct - change the set to add, and you should be golden.
As Walt said, there is an automatic feature for retrying a quiz question, but not for an entire quiz, so your variable solution is a good option.
Thank you so much both 🙏👏
@Walt I'm new to storyline so I just basically googled my way to limiting attempts and I didn't even know that there was a built-in function that could do that.
