Passing Variable Data Between Storyline Blocks in Rise (a guide)

Hi Owen,

Thank you so much for posting this.

Mine is not working. Would you mind looking at my code to see where I went wrong?

Many thanks,
Teah

Hello Staff, would it be possible to produce a couple of videos around this thread so we all can learn this cutting edge way of using storyline and rise storyline blocks together in greater detail?
It seems like this could add value to many developers courses.

A big thank you to the creator of the thread and the contributors in this thread!

It should be 2 different projects.  Can you share your .story files so I can take a look? It will probably have to wait until next week. 

Hi Owen! I am attempting this project and I am having an issue retrieving the selected guides. In my retrieval scene I first had the slide executing JS at slide launch. Next, all guide images are set to hidden at slide launch. They each have a trigger to change to normal if their variable is true. Following your instructions I have local storage calling up all variables at slide launch. I did this in hopes that once variables were recalled, then the SL variables would display the conditional images based on the T/F boolean values. Sadly, no guide displayed. Is this because I created two different SL projects? Should this all pull from one project?

Owen, thank you so much for taking the time to review my files and respond so quickly! Your revised file works perfectly, it has solved the issue! I greatly appreciate your help.

I would like to have some kind of defined content path branched depending on selections for what role the student have. Engineer or sales for instance..
3C seems highly suitable for this..so that choices have consequences for what content to present to the user.

Much more scenarios in my head. But im guessing a lot more coding.. and i am not a fan of custom coding, two main reasons, i dont like coding :) Second a nightmare to maintain none standard code in large number of courses.

It needs to be built into the tool for anyone to figure out how to use.

I sort of coded in Director, Authorware, flash and c++  back in the day.. But today im over it :)

I shun away from any coding. But i know its power when unleashing  good coding with ease of use for the none coder is enormous. Rise is a good example. Limited but growing.

Thank you Owen for pushing the combo of Rise and Storyline blocks boundaries!

I remember a few years ago when i talked about finding the strength in two. Many people said why not only use storyline? Some even said , Rise was not allowed.. 
Completely missing the point of ease of use and the power that gives for many more people then Storyline specialist. Now rise is standard for most productions but - the combo thinking is gaining ground.

If we could get some pre-made templates for this type of use from articulate would be interesting. However, i think it should be picked up from rise what variables are made available for use and how to handle those should not be needing code.. maybe in the future this type of functions are part of rise blocks. I dont see any reasons why it could not be.

Owen showing the way , hopefully Articulate listens and add their ease of use touch from within rise.

Thank you for sharing this excellent example, Owen! I hope you will see my response. Your example was almost exactly what I need, minus the guide character selection. I just need learners to enter their name then have it show up in the certificate. I’ve attempted to recreate your example, but I don’t really know much about JavaScript and I’m stuck on having the name entered from the first Storyline block to show up in the second, certificate Storyline block. It just keeps showing up as null. The course we are creating will not be in an LMS, only posted to a website. I’m including my files here in the hopes that you or someone else from the Community might be able to help me figure out where I have gone wrong. Thank so much in advance for any help that can be provided!

Review file: Storyline Block Test | Review 360 (articulate.com)

I haven't tried mobile but to be honest, I'm not a fan of storyline blocks in rise ON mobile.
I love them for PC/desktop deployments, but on android, they just aren't quite responsive enough.
When I have a moment, I'll give it a test on my tablet and let you know the outcome.