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Matching drop-down trigger
Hey all,
In my course I use the "Matching Drop-down" question slide in a test.
I want the user to fill in the question before they can proceed. Therefor I used a trigger to disabled the "submit" button on the start of this slide's timeline. And I the submit button to be "normal" (clickable) when the user has interacted with the drop-downs.
Problem is: I can't find a trigger which executes when the drop-down is set. Does anyone knows how to proceed?
Kind regards
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Hi Thomas,
Good question! We currently don't have a trigger event that monitors when a Matching Dropdown has been interacted with. As a workaround, I recommend connecting the Mouse Hover event with the last dropdown to enable the Submit button. The screenshot below shows that this object corresponds with Text Box 6.
You can find a sample Storyline file attached showing this interaction. Let me know if that works for you!
Hello, this topic is three years old. Has there been any progress on the topic? I have the same/similar problem and can't find a solution.
Hello NadiaAlmtorp,
Thanks for following up!
I don’t have any updates just yet, but I’ve let our product team know that adding a trigger to detect whether a user interacted with a dropdown in a Matching Dropdown interaction could be helpful for your use case. We’ll keep you posted if anything changes on that front.
In the meantime, as Walt suggested, you might try using Storyline’s built-in feature where the Submit button shows a warning until all dropdowns are filled out.
Please feel free to reach out anytime if you have more questions!
Hey Eric,
Thanx for your reply. But unfortunately the workaround isn't of much use for me.
The main reasons we want to use the "matching dropdown" quiz (instead of for instance a drag-and-drop quiz) is the possibility to use your keyboard to interact with this quiz, so the quiz could be WCAG compatible.
The Mouse Hover trigger won't react on the keybaord interaction.
If there are any other suggestions, I would be happy to know.I would use the native function. Leave the Submit trigger there, and if they click it before they make at least one match, they will get the "You must answer" message. The system won't let them proceed until they fill in the question.
Hi all,
If I already submitted the wrong answer, I set the result page to redo the question, but if I jump back to the question page, the Matching Drop - down answer state is last time I choose, how can I reset the answer state to non choose?
