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NEXT button on question slide not working on revisit
I'm having issues with the NEXT button that appears on a question slide when a learner revisits the slide after submitting.
As with your typical question slide, after the learner clicks SUBMIT, if they return to the slide it now has the PREV and NEXT buttons. On this activity slide, the PREV button works fine, but then when the learner wants to move forward again, the NEXT button does nothing; it's not linking to the next slide.
If I manually add the NEXT button in so it appears next to the SUBMIT button, then it works just fine; however, I don't want the NEXT button to appear when they first come to the slide to complete the activity.
All other question slides in the course are working properly; it's just this one that refuses to link to the next slide. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
Hey Melissa,
Great question and Nicole explains this beautifully here along with how to solve.
Hope it helps you out as well.
- MelissaMaherCommunity Member
THANK YOU!! I really appreciate your quick and helpful response!
This worked perfectly!
- TroySCommunity Member
I had this happen also -- quiz question on last slide of a scene. For me, it affected the quiz as well as the review.
It may not be too graceful, but I just put a .25s slide after the last quiz question. Nobody seemed to notice, and it clears up the navigation issues.
Like Tessa and Lesley, if there is a better way, I'm all ears.
- EarlKreuzer-e3eCommunity Member
WHYI HAS this NOT been addressed in ANY updates to date.
Your solution is GENIUS to say the least. Should be a top priority fix in my humble opinion.
- vimalsinghCommunity Member
Hi, I was also getting the issue, while revisiting the Question slide and next button was not allowing me to jump to my Home menu slide, but later by R & D I got one solution. and I am sharing with all here. It was a small thing what I was missing.
- LinaEspinosa-81Community Member
Thank you for posting this! It has helped me!!!
- VickiTaylorCommunity Member
I also had the same problem where I couldn't progress past one particular question slide when reviewing it. I solved it by removing the freeform from that question slide, (Insert > Remove Freeform), creating player triggers for next and previous buttons (you'll have to make sure they are enabled on the base layer first). Then I removed them from the base layer and it worked... don't ask me why!
- LindsayMaiselCommunity Member
OK so I had this exact same problem after all of these years in Storyline 360. My question was the final slide in a scene. I wanted to finish the scene, and jump back into the main menu (another scene/slide). If people revisited the section/question slide, they got stuck in a dead end.
The way I configured this:
Set back, next and submit buttons to be active from the slide properties.
On the question slide base layer, set next to hidden when timeline starts.
Then on each of the final feedback layers (correct, incorrect NOT try again), I set up a few triggers on each layer.
Change the state of submit to hidden when the user clicks "Continue" or whatever your feedback layer button is.
Change the state of next button to normal when the user clicks "Continue" or whatever your feedback layer button is.
MAKE SURE to make these new triggers come BEFORE the trigger for your continue button to advance to the next slide
I also added that next blank slide, set the slide to advance to the menu screen location when timeline starts
Be sure to go into your course menu in the player properties and remove the blank jumping slide from your course menu.
This way, when the user revisits a section or a quiz, the next button is active, they can't change their answer (they had enough tries from the 'Try Again'/attempts settings that were dodged on that question layer feedback). The next pops them out to the redirect to the main menu.Exhausting workaround, but I hope this helps someone else next time!
- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
Hey Tessa
If you'd like, we'd be happy to take a closer look at it. Please submit a case, including your .story file, using the link below so our support team can assist you further:
http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php
Thanks!
- LesleyMizerCommunity Member
I had the same problem when the next slide was the first slide of a new scene. Like you, I added the NEXT button to the question slide, added a trigger for it not to work until the question is answered correctly, but I would like a more ideal fix as well.
- TessaMakiCommunity Member
Hi Lesley,
Yes, that was the exact issue! I forgot to come back and update this, but I finally figured out that it was because the question slide was the last in the scene. When it linked to another scene, then the Next button wouldn't work. In most cases I was able to adjust it so the last slide of the scene wasn't a question, but in some cases I needed to be creative. I agree that there should be a more ideal fix.
~Tessa
Thanks Tessa for coming back to update the thread!
Hi Troy,
Thanks for sharing - it seems that you're all using similar examples, and I haven't seen a different way. If you have a particular way you'd like it to function you can always submit it as a feature request.