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.

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 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.

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

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KimMason-bab82a
Community Member
9 years ago
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.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
9 years ago
Thanks for popping in to share Kim :)
RebeccaCarter
Community Member
9 years ago
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!
WendyFarmer
Super Hero
9 years ago
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?
Kimhofmann
Community Member
8 years ago
I'm having the same issue. Anyone have a workaround? Will changing it to an essay question work?
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
8 years ago
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.
- KimHofmann-9ba8
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  Thanks. I ended up converting all the short answer to essay and it worked. Maybe you can put a warning on the short answer about the enter key = submit. It might save designers some time.
  
  -Kim
  - KimHofmann-9ba8
    Community Member
    8 years ago
    Thanks for your help on the short answer/submit question. Now I'm stuck again. Do you have any suggestions on how to best do a reflection activity? The student is supposed to create a list of all qualities that they think area found in an empowering work environment. They are then supposed to rate these qualities according to their significance. Then they need to create a list of qualities that are currently present in their operation. Finally, they need to reflect on the comparison between the two lists.
    
    I just don't know where to start on this question. Any tips, ideas, suggestions......?
    Thanks
    
    -Kim
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
8 years ago
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.
- KimHofmann-9ba8
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  Thanks!
  
  -Kim
cassmiller
Community Member
8 years ago
Hello,

I am having the same issue. Unfortunately, an essay question will not work for me because I need multiple text entry boxes on one slide, but you cannot have multiple essay boxes on one slide. Even after configuring the slide to advance by a user, making a custom submit button, creating a feedback layer, it still advances to the layer/next slide when you hit enter. Please help!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
8 years ago
Hi Cass,

It looks like there have been many ideas shared in this thread, but you have a unique design need with your multiple text entry boxes.

Hopefully someone in the community with some experience with this will be able to chime in and assist you here.
JustinLovett-75
Community Member
8 years ago
I am still in disbelief that this feature wasn't corrected for yet. Come on guys.

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