Hi, I am having a problem with the text entry. I would like the learner to be able to type a longer text into the text entry box. When he presses 'enter', a line break should be created within the text entry box. However, as soon as the learner presses the enter key, the text is automatically submitted and the learner is moved on to the next slide. Is there a way around this? I deleted the 'next' and 'submit' button and created my own submit button, but this didn't work either. Can anybody help? Thank you. Sabine

I am still in disbelief that this feature wasn't corrected for yet. Come on guys.

Hi Kim! Wow! That's a pretty deep reflection. There is not an out-of-the-box way to set something like that up, so I will leave that to the community to assist in your design.

Hi Ren, I have tried making the text entry bigger, but that doesn't work. Enter still submits the question! I hope I solution can be found.

To whomever still needs this functionality, I did find a workaround. Essay didn't work for me because we needed people to be able to see and print, if desired, what they entered and what the suggested responses are with the Review Result option. We hope people don't use the enter key, but we can't control what users decide to do.I will say, it is a little annoying that we have options for how to submit in the quiz form - which is to use a button and (or at least it seem so) to submit with a keystroke. One would assume if that is blank, that a keystroke would be ignored. That said, here's how I got this to work (you may need to modify it a bit based on your needs):Note: I used a custom Submit button in the page, but this should work with the player submit button.I did have some extra stuff to suppress the Next button and show the custom submit button until the slide was answered (so on review they can use the Next button) - so this shouldn't change anything - I just mention it in case...Question type: Fill in the blank (I had a longer entry box)Question properties: Feedback "By Question", Attempts UnlimitedSetup:Create variable FIXEnterPressed (True/False)Add a trigger - change FIXEnterPressed to FALSE when the timeline startsOn the Submit button (on click), add the triggers to adjust FIXEnterPressed to TRUE and then Submit interaction (order is important)Delete the Correct and Incorrect feedback layers. Make the Try again layer blank (change the master and delete any 'artifacts' that may remain), set the timeline to the shortest time (we really only want it open for a very short time, just to run a trigger)Adjust Try Again layer properties to: Hide other slide layers (or not, really shouldn't matter), Hide slide layer when timeline finishes, revisiting: Initial State, (others are deselected)Add a trigger in Try again layer to jump to next slide when timeline starts if (condition) FIXEnterPressed is equal to True---So essentially what we're doing here is passing a variable to check when Submit is pressed vs when someone presses Enter. We have to hack it by using the Try Again layer, otherwise the question submits before anything else, so we can't really hijack the logic.Ideally and hopefully the question properties will be updated so they comply with our wishes (i.e. if we want either ENTER key OR some sort of Submit button OR ENTER key AND submit button to submit the interaction) - but until then, hopefully this will help someone.Best--L

Hi Sabine, Is this on a question slide or a regular content slide? This support page may help to answer your question, but briefly, for these data entry questions, pressing enter is = pressing Submit answer Graded: Fill in the Blank Graded: Numeric Survey: Short Answer Survey: How Many Freeform: Text Entry If you use an Essay Question, Learers CAN use ENTER for a line break. And if you're using just a data entry field on a content slide, making the text entry box taller should allow Learners to press ENTER for a line break. Also, if your Learners are moving to the next slide automatically, check the slide properties. If the slide is advancing automatically, you can change it to By User.

Prevent enter key from submitting text entry for evaluation

RebeccaFleischC
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi Sabine,

Is this on a question slide or a regular content slide?

This support page may help to answer your question, but briefly, for these data entry questions, pressing enter is = pressing Submit answer

Graded: Fill in the Blank

Graded: Numeric

Survey: Short Answer

Survey: How Many

Freeform: Text Entry

If you use an Essay Question, Learers CAN use ENTER for a line break.

And if you're using just a data entry field on a content slide, making the text entry box taller should allow Learners to press ENTER for a line break.

Also, if your Learners are moving to the next slide automatically, check the slide properties. If the slide is advancing automatically, you can change it to By User.
Sabinede-Kamps1
Community Member
11 years ago
It was a question slide. I now added a large text entry box to a content slide instead and it works.Thank you very much Rebecca.
RebeccaFleischC
Community Member
11 years ago
Very cool, Sabine!
AbhishekDasg489
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi,

I am having the same issue as well. We have added a pretty large text entry box in the question slide for the user to input their answers. I also created custom submit button for submitting the answers. However, whenever the user presses Enter key in the text entry box, instead of adding a new paragraph, its taking to the next slide. We have already selected Slide Progresses by user.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Abhishek
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
Hi Abhishek! Did you check out Rebecca's response above? What type of question are you utilizing?
- AbhishekDasg489
  Community Member
  10 years ago
  Hi,
  
  I did check her response. Unfortunately, its not working. We have tried increasing the size of the text box as well. However, as soon as the Enter key is pressed it takes to the next slide.
  
  We are using freeform question. We want the user to enter multiple paragraphs in it which needs to be graded. Otherwise we could have used the survey type question which allows us to enter essay and allows the enter key to insert a new paragraph.
  
  I have also tried using a variable to capture the text entered and if there is no value entered in the text entry it can open up a new layer which acts as a pop up saying invalid answer. However, the challenge I am facing is when there is already a sentence or paragraph entered and then the user presses the enter key to get a new paragraph. Can we somehow customize that as well?
  
  Thanks,
  Abhishek
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
The free form text entry treats the enter key as submit as you can see here. Would you be able to provide a sample file of your .story project for us to take a look at?
AbhishekDasg489
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi Leslie,

Here is attached .story file.
TextEnty.story9 MB
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
Thank you Abhishek! I wanted to be sure that we were on the same page.

There is not a built in way to do what you are asking. The Enter key submits this question type.

I'm not sure if someone in the community has a creative way to handle this differently.

Even if you place a warning to the learner, I'm sure that they are still going to hit the Enter key as it is only natural when typing.

You are welcome to submit a feature request here.
LeonoraBular820
Community Member
9 years ago
I am having the same issue as Abhishek. Has any solution been discovered?
ChristiePollick
Community Member
9 years ago
Hi, Leonora -- Thanks for reaching out here! It doesn't appear that we heard back from Abhishek with a solution he discovered, but as this discussion is a bit older and he may no longer be subscribed, you are welcome to reach out to him via the "Contact Me" link on his profile page to inquire directly. And while I am not aware of a solution that has been discovered for his issue, if you would be interested in sharing your file, perhaps your peers might be be able to take a look and offer additional ideas based on your current set up.