Hello Is there a way to have the next and prev button from the slide navigation control removed from the slide layer? I have multiple layers on a slide and I have created a close button on each layer which takes the user back to the slide. However the next and prev button still remains. If the user clicks the next button while visiting a layer it takes them to the next slide. However I don’t want the user to click the next button when they are visiting the layer as I want to ensure they visit all the layers before progressing to the next slide. Put simply I don’t want the user to be able to click the next or prev button when vising layers; I want them to click the close button I have created. Thanks Joey

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

Remove Prev and Next Button from a Layers

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AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
10 years ago
Thanks for sharing here Jenny and just an FYI that responding via email include your signature here, so you're welcome to edit the post to remove that information.
janetsmith-12fb
Community Member
9 years ago
Hi all, I've tried to get this to work but am stuck on how to get the NEXT button to activate when all the 4 layers have been visited. I'm probably missing something pretty fundamental but cannot figure it out on my own! I'm attaching my story file in case anyone can see the problem. Thanks!

janet
test.story1.7 MB
SolangeRichard
Community Member
9 years ago
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.
test-2.story1.7 MB
- janetsmith-12fb
  Community Member
  9 years ago
  Hi Solange,
  
  Oh wow!! Thanks so much!! I would never have figured that out! Love this community!
SachinTaank-3ae
Community Member
9 years ago
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!
- KateMackenzie
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  yep - thats what i did too!
- GregCebuliak-9e
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Brilliant! Thank you for taking the time to post this :)
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
9 years ago
Old or not, we always appreciate the ideas and continuing to share here! Thanks for popping in Sachin. 😀

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