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Hi Alice,

Awesome, I'm glad that helped! Thanks for the update, too, I appreciate it. 

Also, just wanted to share the link for feature requests, just in case you'd like to share your suggestion with our development team:

Articulate > Submit your feature request

Thanks again! Have a great weekend

Sorry, a bit late on this - do you have to name the slide on the previous button?

I've got all of mine set as 'go to previous slide when user clicks previous' and they go all over the place. I've taken into account scenes and whatnot, but its not making sense to me!

Any advice?

Hi Rachel,

It sounds like you've got the "Previous" button set up to go to the last viewed slide, but it's not working, correct? Have you rearranged any of the slides? 

Also, if you're in Story View, you should be able to see a blue "path" for which slides are connected. Does it look like they should be returning to the correct slides or scenes, or does look random?

It all appears to be fine. The pathway makes sense in a logical progression through the course and I've not moved any slides.

I did import some from another Storyline file, but I've removed any other linking and set it to just be a basic forward and backwards.

Is my best bet to link a slide with a named slide for both previous and next?

Sounds like you have confused Storyline you do not need to add a previous slide trigger as it works by default. Maybe deleting all your previous triggers will fix it (It may break the previous button completely as well).

Does it not need them to jump from scene to scene either?!

Grr!!

Thank you!

the previous button without triggers will jump to the last slide viewed historically, this should jump back through scenes as well.

The main confusion (which is not your fault) is that the previous trigger is not exposed by default like the next slide trigger.  I expect there are many users who are adding in this trigger because they would expect to see it but cannot.

Thanks Phil - I've removed all of the 'previous' branching that I'd put in and its still jumping around a bit.

I reset the menu just in case that was messing it up, but it seems like some slides just dont know what their order is...

Is this just one of those things?

I've been complaining about this for ages: the way the "previous" link works is inconsistant with "next" links. They are not two sides of a coin, they're two totally different coins. This is a violation of every law of good design ever made by anyone ever.

As you would expect "Next" links look at the next object numerically, e.g. "next scene" will go from scene 1 to 2.

However "Previous" links look at the last object you were on. For example if you start on Scene 4 Slide 8 then go to Scene 3 Slide 2 when you use "Go to Previous slide" you won't go to Scene 3 Slide 1 as you would expect but you go to Scene 4 Slide 8. 

What's all this mean? You have to hard code previous links if you have anything other than a totally linear Storyline. Since you have to hard code everything you can't have a custom menu on a master slide.

To fix this they need to fix the "previous" to do as it is expected and they need to move the existing, and useful, "previous" behavior to a new trigger, "Jump to last visited ...."

Oh my, I cant hard code.

I struggle to use Storyline (clearly!).

I now seem to have only one slide that wont behave....nearing wanting a) to cry or b) to throw the PC out of the window....