Reorder Storyline Scenes

Hi Joseph and welcome to Heroes!

There are some methods described here on how to reorder Storyline scenes. 

I'm having the same problem. I worked through those screenr videos, but none of the options changed the slide number for me. Is there any updated solution?

Hi Beth! Perhaps the details in this thread are what you are looking for.

hi heroes :),
I have an issue with my scene orders, on my story board the scenes are in proper order and triggers are working fine.
 

however on my menu the scene number 5 insists on being listed before scene 4

I have to admit I "created" scene 4 before scene 5, but how can i adjust the order in the menu?

Hi Nour,

Have you tried resetting the menu? From the player properties window, click Menu, then click the Reset from Story wheel icon. 

If that doesn't work, collapse the scenes and use the arrowheads to move the scenes up or down.

I had a scene ordering issue that is not covered in the How to Change the Order of Scenes in Story View article that I figured I would share here. My first scene included a slide with 4 different clickable objects linking to the first slide of 4 different scenes so the Story view ended up look like this:

Scene #2 is my intro and it is already the left-most scene in Story view. Scenes #3 thru #5 are Challenges 1 thru 3, but they appear in reverse order. Each of the "Jump to slide..." triggers on the Home slide is assigned to a different object so the reordering tool won't help me here.

When a single slide is linked to multiple scenes, those scenes are ordered left to right in the order in which the triggers are created. Instead of completely rebuilding the objects, I found that I could just cut and paste those clickable objects in ascending order to reorder the scenes in Story View. 

Peter,

I think you could have achieved the same effect by changing the z-levels of the objects with the triggers. Z-layer refers to which objects are in front or behind each other, and can be seen on the timeline. The ones lower down are farther behind. You got the results you wanted because when you recreated the objects, you changed their level on the timeline.

When the thumbnails are created for Storyview, it starts at the bottom of the objects on the timeline. Makes sense actually, because unless you change the order, the objects created later are stacked in the timeline on top of objects created earlier. So it starts with the "oldest" objects and if they have a trigger that refers to another slide, the thumb of that slide is placed under the current slide. Then it works its way up the timeline list, and when it finds a reference to another slide, it adds that thumb to the right of the previous one(s). So the quickest way to swap the position of two slides (or scenes) is to change their relative position on the timeline.

Of course, the primary concern is how they appear on the slide, but if that isn't a consideration, here's the rule. The lower an object with the trigger is on the timeline, the farther left the slide it references will be in Storyview.

One caution: you won't see the results immediately; the slides don't change positions until the next time the thumbs are re-drawn.

Well, my first thought was to say "Still working on it". As you know, closing will do it, and I usually close SL about once an hour to prevent crashes.

I experimented, and here's the video.  Notice when you move the affected slides towards each other, if they change positions, they don't change numbers.  All bets are probably off if you use jump to next triggers instead of jump to NameofSlide.

When it comes to the order of the scenes, it looks like collapsing and expanding the thumbnails of any scene in Story view will trigger a redraw. Video attached.

You know, it occurs to me that none of this would be an issue if they just didn't auto number the scenes at all. But I suppose removing that numbering would impact the sequential "Jump to..." triggers.