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Pick many won't allow user to pick many
I'm trying to build a custom look Pick Many question and I can't get it to allow the learner to select multiple answers. I've tried using both Check Boxes and Radio Buttons and neither is allowing me to select multiple answers. I've attached a file with the two Pick Many question so you can see how they're set up.
Here's the question in Review https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b455fb3d-108e-4a3e-a6a5-95011ffaa4c8/review
Any advice would be appreciated. For reference, all the Pick One questions are using radio buttons so for consistency of appearance I'd like to continue using these.
If you are serious about consistency, you need to use checkboxes. Almost every computer program written in the last 50 years uses radio buttons to indicate that only one option can be selected at one time, and checkboxes to indicate that several options can be selected at a time.
So when you create a bunch of radio buttons, SL automatically puts them in a Button set, which means that only one of them can be selected at a time. Choose checkboxes, and that doesn't happen.
I would strongly advise you not to use groups. Groups don't play nicely with anybody, and especially not with triggers and states. Ungroup the groups, choose one item to be the base item, select and copy all the others. Edit the state, and paste all the others onto the Normal state. Now you have one object, and it can have states and triggers applied to it.
I did try it with checkboxes in and out of groups and they kept going into one button set where it only allowed one to be selected. I'll try again, hopefully it'll work this time!
Is this what you are trying to do? Look at slide labeled does this work.
That looks like it works, I'll give that a go on my project and see if the problem is then resolved.
Remaking the questions this way worked. Thank you both to Bill and Walt for helping.
Actually, groups is one problem. I can't guarantee how or when groups will cause a problem; they are unpredictable.
The reason only one can be selected at a time is because they are in a set. Select all the answer buttons, right click, choose Button set, and choose None.
Every time I did this it immediately reverted. When I was looking through the forums that was the first thing that came up to try, I remember getting very frustrated that my change wasn't saving.
