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

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.

Hi Joey,

The 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons can only be switched on/off at the base layer level - as far as I know, you can't switch them off per layer.

If you wanted to use the default player controls (so the navigation controls remain consistant with the rest of your project), you could try the following:

• Create a T/F variable for each layer i.e. Layer1, Layer2 etc. and set it to FALSE
• Add a trigger to each layer that adjusts the variable to TRUE when the timeline starts
• Create a 'warning' layer that advises the user that they must view all items before they can proceed
• Add a trigger to the 'Next' button that shows the 'warning' layer when the user clicks it if 'Layer1' OR 'Layer2' etc. = FALSE
• Add a second trigger to the 'Next' button that jumps to the next slide when the user clicks it if 'Layer1' AND 'Layer2' etc = TRUE

Just a thought...

Antony

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 Sheila and welcome to Heroes,

Slide layers still contain the same functionality of working with the base layer next/previous buttons in Storyline 2. Within Storyline 2, you can choose to hide the player buttons and enable them with triggers which may fit for your needs of only showing them on a layer. 

If there is another feature you'd like to see, please always feel free to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request with our product development team. 

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 Bob, 

Thanks for sharing. Disabling is also a good option :)

Hi Vicki,

By default the slides with have the Prev/Next or a Submit. You can remove them from the whole course at once with these steps:

1. Go to Story View.
2. Press Ctrl+A twice to select all the slides in your course.
3. Uncheck the Prev, Next, and Submit boxes in the Slide Properties panel.

Hi Vicki!

Yes, you can use the right click as well for slide by slide properties :)

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