Please help! slide layer finishes before activity is completed

SarahSexton​: Based on the additional info you supplied, it sounds like you want the layer to close automatically (that is, no click required), but you want the user to have time to see the checkmarks. 

Here's an option: 

• Add an object off the slide.
• Remove that object from the focus order, so it's not accessible.
• Give it a motion path with a duration equal to the amount of time you want to give the user to see the feedback. 
• Change the motion path trigger so it runs when the correct checkboxes = Visited. 

• Add a trigger that hides the layer when the motion path completes. 

OK, leave the pause it to start the audio. You could put a pause in the layer, but you would need a trigger to restart. I added a pause trigger, but I can't get it to move forward. 

I hope someone will jump in and add to this.

Thank you for your quick responses.  I am on a timeline and really appreciate your feedback.  I think there is something going on with the triggers.  So, here is see from this end....

#1.  I have to leave the pauses on the timelines. It is one of the ways we give learners the ability to control when a slide starts and the narration does not talk over the screen reader.

#2.  I need the triggers to allow the learner to see feedback (green check marks).  I thought about making a conditional button to go back to the base slide, like EricSchaffer-d1 suggested.  The issue with that is A.  I have many activities with slide layers for additional information across a series of 6 courses and this will be the only one with this button.  I would prefer to use a solution that did not contain another button to trigger back AND whenever I add an additional condition to get back to the base slide, it messes up the purple arrow (which is programmed with variables) that indicate the slide is finished and the learner can click the next button.  

#3.  I have three slides exactly like this one.  Different content... but the same interaction.

Knowing that information, what else would you recommend?

2 quick thoughts, I wouldn't pause the timeline when the layer starts. I would like it run. Then I would add a close button to popup when the timeline ends for each layer. The learner can sit and look at each layer as long as they like and you can eliminate a lot of triggers. 

Not sure if this helps. Good luck.

These triggers are on the Leaves layer:

re: the 1st trigger shown

That trigger is set to perform the action when the layer's timeline ends if the conditions are met. But the timeline will end before the user has the time to click the checkboxes. That means the Base Layer Completion Arrow will never change to Normal. 

 

re: the 2nd trigger shown

Any object with a Visited state changes to Visited as soon as it is clicked. So the layer will hide as soon as all of those buttons are clicked. 

If you want to show the Completion Arrow when the user has clicked all of the correct checkboxes, use this trigger instead: