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Mobile Play button Storyline 360 block in Rise
I have a simple, single slide Storyline 360 block inserted into rise.
The Storyline block does not have any media in it (Video/Audio).
On mobile, the Storyline block appears with a play button which must be clicked before the block is initialised.
Why does this play button appear when the Storyline 360 content does not contain any media. I understand the need if there is media to get around the issue of autoplay media for mobile, but the play button is completely redundant in this case.
Is there a JavaScript API I can access in SL to get around this issue. I've been looking through the code, the best I could find was this.onStart(), but I don't think this is a public method.
No worries. No workaround for us. For a recent project, our client chose to live with it. I think the more you can get away with not using Storyline blocks in Rise the better, but there are still some significant holes in Rise's out of the box interactions that we still have to use Storyline to patch those for the time being.
Thanks for talking through that question, Sam and Jodi. We'll be here if you have any other questions!
Can we at least add a poster frame like feature to a Storyline block, so that that should show in every device. The black colour BG in mobile is destructive and do not have a clear functionality at user end. Also a instruction text block that shows on the screen also be a good option.
Hi Siba!
As a workaround, you can add an instruction block in a text block above the SL Block to help your learners with this.
Play button also appears on desktop
I believe there was a change on desktop devices for the Storyline block, that I would argue is a bug.
In the recent past, Storyline blocks definitely did not show up as a grey box with a play button. I know because we went to a lot of trouble to create a button in Storyline to prevent the video from executing right away. Now, I have both the grey video and play button AND my Storyline play button, which makes my button redundant.
I totally agree that the difference between the grey box and seeing the Storyline in the Rise course is like night and day. See attached.It also means that now we have to go back and REMOVE all those play buttons from ALL my Storyline files, which will be a pain. Plus, if you change this feature, then I'm back to having no Play button.
I would strongly suggest that this is a bug that should be fixed because the behavior has changed significantly. I suggest a setting for the Storyline block that toggles the Play button on or off and that the default be off.
I don't track the updates to Rise closely, but if this was an update, could someone please point me to the description in the release notes?
Hello, Raising Voices! I'd love to get a closer look at the lesson that contains this Storyline block. Would you be willing to share it with us? If that works for you, you can include the Share link in a new reply here, or you can send it privately by opening a case.
I've created a case. Thanks.
Hi there, I checked in on your case, and I see that Eric recently sent you an update. It looks like he didn't see a play button on the Storyline Block when testing your file in SCORM Cloud on a desktop computer. He found everything to be working as expected.
If you have any questions about what he shared with you, please let me know!
Hi, has there been any development in regards to the play button feature being turned off. It really does need to be gotten rid of so that the Rise course is seamless. So odd that it's there and means blocks will be no good for us, which therefore means neither will Rise. These little quirks are really starting to add up, making Articulate not the ideal solution for us. A pity but c'est la vie :-(
Just adding my +1 to this conversation. I currently have a simple slider interaction block in my Rise course, but the big ugly black box and play button really do not provide any added value or functionality to Rise. While it has been stated that this is "expected behaviour" I cannot find anything on WCAG that states the need for this. While it is a pain, its not enough to stop me adding basic SL interactions to my Rise courses, I would simply like the options mentioned above; to turn this feature off, and/or at least add a poster frame of the SL interaction rather than a big ugly black square.
Thank you Danny for adding your voice to this request. We'll update this thread once we make changes that will help.
I agree i have no play button in desktop, but it mobile it shows up. I'm just using it for animations and images, not sure why i need a play button to show an image.
