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JillFreeman's avatar
JillFreeman
Community Member
12 years ago

Previous button trigger

I don't know why I never noticed this, but why does the Prev button on some of my slides automatically go to the previous slide in the course, while on other slides the Prev button automatically go...
storyline 360
AshleyT-Pollard's avatar
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
12 years ago

Hi Ray,

It's been something a few users have shared their thoughts on in the form of a feature request as the current, default set up is described here:

The default trigger for the Prev button, which jumps to the last visited slide, is hidden in Articulate Storyline. If you customize the Prev button with an additional trigger—for example, to adjust a variable—it replaces the default trigger. As a result, you'll need to add another trigger to restore the default Jump to previous slide functionality.

  • karenforkish's avatar
    karenforkish
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Hi Ashley, I realize this is an old thread, but from comments that Leslie made 7 months ago, it sounds like the Previous button functionality is the same in Storyline 360? I am using the latest version of Storyline.

    I'm trying to set up a Previous button on my home slide, that is disabled the first time someone visits (when there is no history, yet), but on subsequent visits behaves the way the Previous button usually behaves in Storyline.

    Everything works great when I return to the home slide via the menu, the Previous button is active, and returns me to the last visited slide.

    But, if I go back to the home slide by pressing Previous, nothing happens when the Previous button on the home screen (which now looks active) is pressed.

    I tried adding the trigger mentioned in this article, to subtract 1 from the varCount variable, but it hasn't helped.

    https://articulate.com/support/article/customizing-the-previous-button

    Does this ring any bells for you? Do you know what I might be doing wrong?

    Thanks,

    Karen