Previous button trigger

Hi Chris,

What isn't working with the trigger? Does the variable not adjust or it doesn't return to the previous slide? Perhaps you could share a snippet of what you're looking to set up in the .story file. The article I shared above was for Storyline 1 and it looks like you're using Storyline 2. 

Hi Chris! Looks like you utilized the information from the screenshot in the tutorial. If you do not have a need for variables, I would not utilize them. For what you are wanting, you could simply change the triggers. Your updated file is attached.

I'm not sure that I've seen this done before Chris. Hopefully someone that has a design for that will be able to chime in and assist.

Hi Leslie, I thought the functionality I described was the intention of the subtract 1 variable in this article? http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/customizing-the-previous-button.

That it would force the previous button to go back by 1 slide, as opposed to last visited. 

Hi, a while back I was trying to find a way to globally set the previous triggers in my storyline file to go to Previous slide in sequence, as opposed to the default, which is previous slide visited, like a web browser. But I didn't have any luck.

I know you can manually change this functionality by going into each slide's individual previous trigger, but it's very time consuming to do this on every project, especially the larger ones. 

I was wondering, now that some time has passed, has anyone found a way to set this globally with a variables? Or are there any plans to add this as an option in the setting of a future update?

Hi Chris,

There isn't a change to this behavior yet, so it's something that you'd still need to adjust manually. As far as where it stands for a future update, I haven't seen a mention of it within a roadmap, but it's always worth sharing the ideas with our team in the form of a feature request! 

Thanks, I will contact them.

Thanks for the information above. It helps.

I've done some research, and did not founded if there's a solution other than manually add a trigger to set a specific slide as previous. Ashley, could you please confirm if there's some new feature available for Storyline 360?

Thanks in advance :-)

Hi Mario!

This thread is a bit dated, but the default behavior for the Previous button is still set to go to the last slide viewed.

Due to branching and other non-linear courses, this button acts more like a browser back button instead of the numerical or linear previous slide as this could be a slide the user has not seen yet in some cases.

You can certainly set this trigger manually if needed.

Hope that helps you out.

If you need some assistance or have questions about your particular set-up, feel free to reach out :)