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SandraLowe's avatar
SandraLowe
Community Member
13 years ago

Pause button doesn't function if there are slide layers??

I am working on a course that has three layers.  Based on what the user declares at the beginning of the course, a variable is set and they are shown the appropriate material.  Most of the slides h...
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BruceRoberts's avatar
BruceRoberts
Community Member
8 years ago

Hi Ashley, the pause button is a page object and should be able to pause all media on a page.  When layers are used for subtitles (I have a lesson with 7 optional languages), the pause button does not pause the page, it only pauses that layer. 

If I'd known I'd have to build custom functionality, I would have done this from the start.  This must affect everyone who uses layers  and must appear as a regular feature request going back years:

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/pause-button-disappears-on-seekbar-during-slide-layer-revisit

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/pause-layer-timeline

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/pause-play-button-question 

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/slide-pause-problems

The community have fantastic solutions, without which I would be stuck on many occasions, but please can we either get seek bar functionality working properly or provide easy to implement custom navigation tools so authors can build their own?