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

MauricioRoja204
Community Member
5 years ago
Hello Jessica- this sounds promising. Do you have an example of a trigger?
MauricioRoja204
Community Member
5 years ago
could it be a check box under the text field? The user will have to check the box prior to submitting the response. How does it sound?
RebeccaCarter
Community Member
5 years ago
I am having this problem again three years later...

I have three text entry boxes on screen - I do not want the enter key to submit the answers..

HOW do I stop this happening??

Is there a quick way round it?

I have the latest version of storyline.
RenGomez
Staff
5 years ago
Hi Rebecca,

If you increase the height of the text entry box to be more than two lines, then the Enter key registers as a carriage return (new line) and does not submit the question.

Does that help with your setup?
VanessaWright-e
Community Member
4 years ago
I am also having this issue. I've read that different questions types might be helpful. Is there any solution for this yet?
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
4 years ago
Hello Vanessa and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

When there's a data-entry field on a question slide, pressing the Enter key on the keyboard submits your response for evaluation. In other words, pressing the Enter key on the following question slides is the same as clicking the Submit button.

Graded—Fill in the Blank

Graded—Numeric

Survey—Short Answer

Survey—How Many

Freeform—Text Entry

You can press Shift+Enter to add line breaks to short-answer surveys and ungraded freeform text-entry questions when the fields are tall enough to allow multiple lines of text.

Hi Annemarie,

Thanks for the additional information. Does Shift+Enter work for you?
AnnemarieReb048
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi Leslie,

When I adjusted it to an essay question, the [enter] button could be pressed without submitting!

Thanks!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
4 years ago
That's great, Annemarie. I appreciate you sharing the solution that worked best for your project.
AtikahHatta-958
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi All, I have update my Storyline 360 to the latest version but I'm still having problem with the Enter key not getting the value user type on the text entry. I've set the submit button on the slide & Enter for submit keys. But it doesn't work, when user press Enter key, they're just advancing to next slide. When I want to show their typed value on the last slide, it doesn't show. Can someone help me?
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
4 years ago
Hi Atikah and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

We'd be happy to help you.

With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.