Prevent enter key from submitting text entry for evaluation

Hi Leslie,

Here is attached .story file.

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.

I am having the same issue as Abhishek.  Has any solution been discovered?

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. 

Fast Forward 7 Months ....

I had a similar problem - In the Try steps of my software/screen recording the user enters two lines of text - the second line is typed in after pressing the enter key on the first line (to create a new line).

I got round the problem (of Storyline validating too early) by duplicating the slide and having each line as a single line text entry box - on each slide. I positioned each text entry box over the area where each line should appear, and "snipped" the first line's text and pasted it on to the second slide - above the second text entry box (giving the impression the user has entered the correct text.

Finally, in each slide's form view I change the acceptable answers to the correct value for each line.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for popping in to share Kim :)

Did any one come up with an easy way of stopping this? Mine is also a free form text entry. I tried to follow Kim's way but it seems too complicated and time consuming for me.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Rebecca

I'm  playing around with a pick one quiz type slide.what is the acceptable answer/s in your freeform text entry to get it correct? 

I'm having the same issue.  Anyone have a workaround?  Will changing it to an essay question work?

Hi Kim!

This thread is a bit dated. Are you having the same issue the initial post listed?

Did you check out the solution that Rebecca shared here. It outlines the behavior of the Enter key in these questions and yes, Essay will probably correct this for you.