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Need Help: Enabling Next Button After Visiting 4 Slide Layers
Hi everyone! I’m working on a slide with a base layer and 5 additional layers.
I’ve disabled the "Next" button on the base layer. I want learners to select four different hotspots to view four content layers (in any order). Once they have viewed all four, they should reach the 5th layer, where the "Next" button finally becomes enabled.
What is the best way to track that all four layers have been visited to trigger the "Next" button state change? Thanks in advance!
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For enabling Next after layers are viewed, I typically use a T/F variable to track whether each layer has been viewed. The triggers on each layer would look something like this:
Another option: If you present the layers as Dialog layers, the user can't interact with anything else until they close the layer. So you could enable the Next button based on the layer-opening buttons being in the Visited state.
Both of those options are demonstrated in the file attached to this post:
TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 | E-Learning Heroes
FYI: Based on your description, it sounds like you want to automatically show a 5th layer after the main 4 layers are viewed. I recommend against showing that automatically, because that might confuse the learner if the content suddenly changes. They should be in control. Instead, you could program it so the button to open the 5th layer appears/is enabled after the other 4 layers are viewed.
