Forum Discussion
Reorder slides in Story View
I created a main menu that connects to four different sections. When I link them to the buttons, they change order, making development a headache as the course gets larger.
I have tried having them in the order I wanted and changing the slide content, but when I link them back to their respective buttons, they go out of order again, making me think it has something to do with the triggers.
Any suggestions on how to put my sections in 1,2,3,4 order? The attached picture shows the issue and trigger settings.
As I said above, Storyline presents STORYVIEW based on its programming. When there are lots of cross links, it doesn't care about slide#s and scene#s that don't directly impact the links. It just presents what it considers is the optimal layout to show the connections. I'd guess that the order of objects and/or triggers impacts that, but I don't really know.
What I do know is that someone taking a course never sees STORYVIEW. If the course triggers work when previewed or published, that's what ultimately matters.
I agree that it can be frustrating as a developer to not be able to rearrange STORYVIEW, but there's nothing you can do about that.
When you're actually editing in SLIDEVIEW, there are a couple ways to switch scenes:
- Double-click slides in STORYVIEW to open a slide from each scene. That will create slide tabs, which allow you to move quickly from one scene to another. And, of course, you can still move between slides in a given scene by using the Scenes panel.
Note: If you delete a slide, the program takes away one of the tabs. And, unfortunately, there's no way to rearrange the tabs...
- When you're on any slide, you can use the drop-down in the Scenes panel to jump to another scene. FYI: It'll always jump to the 1st slide in the other scene.
STORYVIEW lays out slides based on how they are connected.
- Unfortunately, when 1 slide links/branches to multiple slides, the program shows an order that makes sense to its programming. But, as you've seen, it doesn't necessarily make sense to whomever is working on the project...
- Fortunately, it's the buttons/triggers on the slides that actually control the order in which slides are presented to the user.
Yes, that means you have to be extra careful when adding, selecting, or deleting slides in STORYVIEW.
If each of your "sections" will include multiple slides, I suggest you put each section into its own Scene. That's an easy way to keep them together. And, if a section/scene is presented linearly, all of its slides will line up nicely in the Scenes panel.
Thank you for your response. I wouldn't mind using sections. But they still are out of order. Am I missing a step to be able to move the sections to the order I want? I attached a picture of the sections linked to my menu.
