Previous button - to the previous slide in the sequence of slides or the last slide visited?

Hi, Carrie.

Thank you for reaching out!

The Jump to Previous trigger in Storyline is related to the previously viewed slide (similar to a browser back button), not necessarily the slides' sequence.

While you can't set this automatically for every slide, the best way to ensure the navigation you need is to manually point to the specific slide number you want the user to go to.  

We also have a feature request logged to allow users to set the logic for the Previous slide trigger. 

I'm adding this discussion to the report, and I will come back to update you if I have any news to share or if this request makes it to our feature roadmap. 

Thanks, Maria. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something. 

And, yes, the current functionality is similar to a browser back button....but training isn't the same as browsing. We organize our courses to move through material in a logical sequence that best suits the material and builds the learner's thinking, so having an option for last viewed or previous screen in the sequence would be a real time saver over manually adding a trigger to each screen.

If anyone else reading this would like this choice, perhaps you could chime in. I imagine one consideration for what makes it to the feature roadmap is community requests.

Thanks for your help, Maria!

I just wrote a similar request, and now see yours too.

Has this been implemented in new updates yet? It's a pain to have to manually select previous slide numbers for a very long course.

Hi,

It seems like the roadmap is only focusing on Rise 360.

The option to use the previous button to go to previous slide instead of "browser back button" without setting it manually on each slide would really be great.

+1 for a Previous button behaviour setting. Using it like a browser's Back button doesn't make much sense in an eLearning course. I am quite baffled how a simple feature like this gets put on the back burner, behind other super low priority items that they fix or update.

I second the motion to have the Previous button go to the previous slide in the SEQUENCE, not the one that was visited. As someone noted earlier, browsing training material is not the same as browsing the internet. 

Please let us easily change this option rather than forcing us do the laborious task of programming each and every slide. Some of our videos are close to 100 slides!

Thanks in advance.

Still no improvement here?

This is a 508 standard and would be most appreciated if we could set previous to the previous slide in sequence.

Hi BJ!

I'd like to look at the Test ID you are referring to. Could you point me in the right direction?