Remove Prev and Next Button from a Layers

Storyline allows to hide the default next and previous buttons (and menu as well) completely. To hide the next/prev navigation buttons go to the "story view". Select your slides and on the "Slide" properties panel on the bottom left uncheck the "Prev" and "Next" checkboxes. If you want to hide the menu you can do it from the "Player" controls customization page.

Here is how it will look like  when all the default player controls hided - Creatingthe iPad style e-learning courses with Articulate Storyline

Hi Michelle

I created a sample file as I couldn't download your file - hope this helps

Thanks to everyone above.  This is crazy though.  I use slide layers a lot and having to go through and turn off the next buttons on the slide, then create manual buttons for the layers seems ridiculous.

Surely this is an obvious need when we are working with layers??  There seems to be a lot of press about Storyline2.  Let's hope this basic issues is addressed there.

Hi Vicki!

As Ashley stated, the use of the Prev/next button in regards to base layers and Slide layers is the same as it was in  Storyline 1 as in Storyline 2. The difference with Storyline 2, is you can set them to hide using triggers. See attached file, the Next button is hidden when Layer 1 appears, and return when going back to the base layer. you could also add the same triggers for the Prev button.

Hope this helps.

Regarding usability and best practice, it would be better to disable the Next/Prev buttons rather than hide them altogether.

Depending on what you want, you could set the standard built-in Next/Prev buttons to 'disabled' when the page opens and then set a Trigger to enable them after all layers have been 'visited'. The Close button on each layer could serve as your 'visited' control if you set it up to have a Visited state. Here's a listing of the steps:

1. Disable Next/Prev when page opens.
2. Enable Next/Prev if layer01CloseBtn and Layer02CloseBtn and Layer03CloseBtn are 'visited'
3. Add a 'Visited' state to each layer's Close button.

Hi Joey 

If you want the user to only use the 'Close' button on each layer, you can create x2 triggers on each button within your base layer. One for the next button and one for the previous button.

The trigger is 'Change the state to hidden' for both the next and previous buttons when the user clicks the button to go into the layer.  

Then just make your close buttons on each layer 'Jump to slide' so it resets.

Hope this helps :) I thought this was a really simple way of doing it.

Simona

Hi Janet

Change state of next button to Normal when the state of each is set to visited. On the main page not on layer.

See file attached.

This is a really old post but I'd still like to contribute. So the way I got around it was probably a bit long winded but it worked great for me.

1 - I created a rule on each layer that says Change State of Next/Prev Button to hidden when the timeline starts (on that layer)

2 - Because I created a 'close' button on each layer, I then created a set of rules that stated to change the state of the next/prev button to normal when you click on the 'close' button which restores it back again on the base layer.

The great thing is, Storyline allows you to copy triggers/rules so all I then had to do was copy each of rules to each layer and voila - I hope this makes sense!

Old or not, we always appreciate the ideas and continuing to share here! Thanks for popping in Sachin. 😀

Thanks. I did ideally want the default next and previous buttons to remain on the main slide and not to appear on the layers. But I can overcome the issue by creating a custom next button on the main slide.