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Masterslides - no indication on where layouts are used
Hi Judy,
Thank you for putting in the time to provide some help on this, I do appreciate it. Thought I'd provide an update if you were curious, and hopefully this may help others who run into a similar issue:
Problem: An unwanted slide layout was being referenced by a slide. Yet all slides were using correct layouts.
Cause: The Question Draw slide was referencing the unwanted slide layout while all the questions in the bank were using the correct layouts. However, you cannot set a slide layout for this question draw slide like a normal slide and it does not display as a typical slide would.
Solution: Delete the question draw slide. Then delete the unwanted slide layout from the Slide Master. Reinserted the question draw slide.Further details: To identify which slide was using the layout I created a copy of my project file. I deleted a scene and checked the slide master to identify if the layout was still being used. I'd repeat this process until the layout reported "being used by no slides". Once the scene was identified, I'd undo the deletion of the scene and do the same process for the individual slides: Delete one, check the master to see if the layout reported "being used by no slides". This led me to the question draw slide.
Kind regards,
Sam
Thanks for the suggestion; no question bank... I discovered after spending another hour or so on this that the layout was being used on layers - while all the other layers were using feedback layouts. It's still telling me that there is one slide using the layout, but I've been through everything with a fine tooth comb and have not found it :(
Assuming you have time and it's necessary, there another option I could suggest, but it could be time intensive depending on where the slide using the layout is located in your project. And this also assumes you have not yet done this.
- Start a new, empty Storyline file. Name it whatever you like, really doesn't matter.
- Open the affected project file.
- Copy the first scene from the affected file into the empty one. (don't worry if any variables/triggers still work, that is not the goal here).
- Check the Slide Master in the new project file for any additional layouts. What you're looking for is the the layout you're trying to remove to show up in the list.
- If the layout you want to remove does not appear in the list, delete the scene and dele any additional slide masters/layouts that scene brought with it.
- Repeat steps (3) and (4) until the layout appears in the layouts in the Slide Master view. Remember to perform step (5) if it does not.
- When the offending layout becomes visible in the Slide Master view, delete the first slide in that scene. Check the layout in Slide Master view to see if it's usage count goes to 0.
- If it does not, repeat (7) until it does. This will tell you which slide the layout has been used on.
- Once identified, you will need to locate the slide in your project file. Change it's layout to a known good layout and check it's layers. I'd even check if it's light-boxing a slide and check that referenced slide as well.
- If still doesn't fix it and it's important this template is removed, rebuild the project in a new Storyline file and make sure you do not copy slides in from another project to avoid multiple Slide Masters being added to the project.
Kind regards,
Sam
Thank you! I will try this, I do need to find it - this is a template that is going to be used by 100+ content developers globally, so I need to make sure it is spot on.