Forum Discussion

DougDewan's avatar
DougDewan
Community Member
10 years ago

Next Button not appearing

Hi Hero's - hopefully someone can assist me. I seem to experiencing a bug on the functionality of a "Next" button state. The way I've set up my training is one Scene offers the learner to select a b...
storyline 360
MariaCS's avatar
MariaCS
Staff
5 years ago

Hi, Adam, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

Thank you for reaching out! 

It sounds like restricting the navigation would work for the scenario you described:

  1. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Player.
  2. Click Menu on the player properties ribbon, then click the gear icon at the bottom of the window for additional menu options.
  3. Use the Navigation Restrictions drop-down list to choose Restricted.
    • Restricted means learners can view the current slide and any slide they previously viewed, but they can't jump ahead or skip over slides.
  4. Mark the box to Restrict Next/Previous buttons. (It's marked by default.)
  5. Click OK twice to close the menu options and the player properties.

Let me know if this works!

  • AdamWhittle's avatar
    AdamWhittle
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hey Maria, thank you so much for getting back to me on this!

    So I had been playing around with the restricted menu already, but I was unfamiliar with what the restrict Next/Previous buttons being checked would do, so I appreciate the information on that. I just turned it on and tested and it makes sense, makes it easier as far as it means I do not have to create a trigger on each slide that changes the next button to hidden or disabled which is a time saver. Thank you!

    However, I notice there is still an issue - for example, I have a slide where you need to interact with all the markers on the screen before progressing. Once the user has done this they are promoted to click the next button, and the next button appears. Then after progressing to the following slide, if I then click back to go back to the previous slide, the next button is unclickable again, until I interact with the markers again (even though they still visually show as being visited and "resume saved state" is selected) 

    I understand that you can use the menu to progress forward if you have already viewed the slide, but we can't rely on that as some of our learners aren't overly tech-savvy and won't figure that out, and throwing too many options to progress at them might be more confusing than helpful.

    I also noticed that if I click back on a few slides, and then click forward again, there's something that seems to trigger the next button to appear for the latest slide, even though the content on that slide had not been selected or viewed. I thought this might've been a strange anomaly with just my module, but in created a small basic module to check this, I managed to replicate the same issue.

    Please let me know if I am doing something wrong, it seems that by default the next button appears at the end of the slide timeline, which doesn't work for us when we need them to interact with the slide before continuing, but this seems to create issues.

    Thank you for your time on this matter, I look forward to your response!