Renumber scenes

Hey there William!

Sorry for the confusion. The scene numbers in Story View are generated based on the order in which you created them. Moving the scenes to a different location in Story View won't change the scene numbers--this is consistent in all versions of Storyline.

You mentioned wanting to turn off the numbers in the menu, and there's an easy way to do that! Simply click Player > Menu > Additional Options (gear icon). Then, be sure "number entries in the menu automatically" is unchecked. 

Hi there William!

It sounds like you've been able to click and drag scenes in older versions of Storyline. While I can click and drag individual slides, I cannot click and drag scenes. Here's a video of that behavior in Storyline 1, 2, and 3.

Could you also share a video that shows me how you can click and drag scenes in the older versions of Storyline? Thanks!

I have never been able to drag scenes around - sorry for my choice of the word "move".  In Story View I use the cut/paste method to move scenes around.  In the Player Menu, I use the up/down arrows to reposition items.  Thanks for the video demo, but I understand these fundamentals.

The attached video shows what I've been trying to do, in this case successfully by cutting/pasting scenes.  You will see that the scenes renumber themselves.

Then I went back to investigate my original file and discovered that I had shot myself in the foot.  I have my own Previous and Next arrows.  I mistakenly set the Previous arrow's trigger to go to the target scene, and the Next arrow was left triggerless.  This is what was causing the problem. 

Now that I have righted the ship, the scenes are renumbered automatically just way I expected them to be.

Thanks for following this, lesson learned!

Eureka! 🌟 I'm happy you were able to find the culprit. Thanks for letting me know how your sorted it out!

Amen. Just rebuild the project. Articulate should have fixed this long ago.

What you can do is copy (ctrl + c) the scenes you want to renumber and move to the back, delete them and paste them back.

So copy, then delete the scences and then paste (ctrl + v) them.

Cut (ctrl + x) and paste doesn't work.

Copying and deleting then pasting this is the only solution I've found if you want to keep unorganised scenes neat and renumber them.

Just make sure you save the file first incase you bugger it up.  

:)

Thank you!!!

I have 4 scenes. 2 and 3 are swapped so it's 1,3,2,4. I clicked on 3 and right clicked "starting scene" then clicked 1 and selected "starting scene" and it renumbered the scenes to 1,2,3,4. This is the easiest solution I found. But it may not work if you have more than 2 slides to swap that come right after the first.