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Next Button Disabled on Revisit
I have the prev/next buttons set to locked. When I click on previous and it takes me back one slide, the next button looks enabled and then automatically goes to disabled upon revisiting the prior s...
Hi, Sara,
Unfortunately, there's a known bug. When a slide is set to "Resume saved state," it won't replay the timeline animations and such. However, the program will re-execute timeline triggers.
If you want to disable the Next button the first time the user encounters each slide, the simplest way is to set the Menu Options to Restricted navigation.
- With Restricted navigation, Storyline will automatically disable the Next button the first time the user visits a slide. It will enable Next when the timeline finishes. After that happens, Next will remain enabled for that slide.
- This works even if you don't show the built-in Menu. (If you do show the Menu, the user can click it to go to a previous slide, but they can't advance by clicking the Menu.)
- You can override this for interactive slides by adding your own triggers to control the Next button.
If you only want to control the Next button for a given slide, do this:
- Create a T/F variable, with an initial value of False.
- Add a trigger that disables Next when the timeline starts, with the condition that the variable is False.
- Add a trigger that enables Next when the timeline ends (or when an interaction is completed).
- Add a trigger that adjusts the variable to True when the timeline ends (or when an interaction is completed).
