I have a question with Correct/Incorrect/Try again options. Someone on the Forum was kind enough to help out with IF, THEN, ELSE logic for try again. When you get Try Again and return to layer with NEB, what you typed in remains. I can set the NEB variable to 0 (Zero), but then learner has to delete the value before typing another response. Is there a way to clear out the original answer so the Numeric Entry Box is completely empty?

For me it does not work. The field now states "NaN" (not a number).

hi guys, i've a solution. For contextualize: My project is a little game, that in a determinated point the user need to write answers inside a numeric field. If the user writes the wrong answer, he goes to another point in the project that have tips and other exercises for him. After all of this, he comes back to the first quiz to try again, when he comes back the numeric entry fields continued with the wrong answers he had written, if i change the answer to 0, all of the fields stays with the 0, but my objective is when he comes back the fields resets, and stays blank, so... i made this: 1º - Create the numeric entry field in the slide2º - Now create a text field custom variable 3º - Change the numeric entry field variable, in the triggers screen, for the new text field variable. (This makes your numeric field with the numeric configuration, receiving only numbers, not text, but the values are sign to a text variable)4º - Now, create a buttom, that had a trigger to Adjust the new text variable value to 'blank' when he was clicked.DONE.Your numeric entry field receives only numbers, and you can make him reset to blank.Hope helps,Below i attached a little test for you know how works.Any question, just call me in my instagram: _up.level

Hi Laurie I have a solution for you. On a slide before the one where your numeric entry is situated (could be the start page), you put an "execute javascript" trigger. The code you enter is as follows: var player = GetPlayer();//Establish an empty javascript variablevar empty = "";//Set your Storyline Numeric variables equal to the empty js variableplayer.SetVar("YOUR_NUMERIC_VARIABLE_NAME_1", empty);player.SetVar("YOUR_NUMERIC_VARIABLE_NAME_2", empty);player.SetVar("YOUR_NUMERIC_VARIABLE_NAME_3", empty);player.SetVar("YOUR_NUMERIC_VARIABLE_NAME_...", empty); And so on... This will set the variables to empty, even though storyline can't do it automatically. You will need to make a "player.SetVar(...."-line for each numeric variable you want to set to empty. Hope this helps everyone...

Hi there, everyone. I wanted to update you that I've documented the issue that when you rename a numeric variable, the entry field and the variable reference display a 0 instead of the default blank. I'm going to have a look at this issue with our team so we can see what needs to be done! I'll keep this discussion updated.

For all of you asking about this issue in Storyline 3, I have good news! We just released Update 7 for Storyline 3! (Build 3.7.20003.0) 🎉 In previous versions of Storyline 3, numeric-entry fields displayed default values of zero after renaming their underlying variables. In this update, you'll find that the numeric- entry fields will remain blank until learners enter values. Head over here to see the rest of the fixes included in update 7! The next step is to update Storyline 3!

Reset Numeric Entry Box so no value shows

ShivamSharma-58
Community Member
3 years ago
Any solution to avoid the NaN?
MariaCS
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, Shivam.

While there isn't a way to set a numeric variable to blank, you're welcome to submit a feature request directly to our team with your suggestion.

As a workaround, as Bill suggested above, you can set it as a text variable and use Javascript to do the calculations.
WilliamEverh218
Community Member
3 years ago
Yuri's solution worked for me. Storyline 360 v. 3.66.28270.0

THANK YOU! Yuri for thinking outside of the box and sharing the solution.
MatthewKliewer
Community Member
3 years ago
Thanks, Yuri - works great for my use case!

(Basically preventing unintentional 0 in the results, as well as just reducing extra work for the user to clear it.)

It would still be great to see an actual solution in the program, however - this workaround wouldn't work if you needed to do Storyline math with the resulting Numeric Entry values, since they're now Text variables.

(You could with JavaScript coercion, but not with the built-in math functions.)
ZacharyBrock-fa
Community Member
2 years ago
This is an old thread, but still relevant to me. Any updates on getting this to work with numeric entry fields?

EDIT: I have seen Yuri's solution and got it to work. Ignore me.
NtambaraFred
Community Member
6 months ago
To get this to work, just Set "NumericEntry" to value "0" when the "timeline starts on NumericEntry".
Nedim
Community Member
6 months ago
I recently shared a demo where you can use a text variable to hold the calculation result of multiple number variables. The result is set to a number after the calculation is completed and reset to a string when the calculation is reset. This way, you can set the resulting variable to 'blank', some other character, or a question mark, as demonstrated in the attached demo. This was achieved with simple JavaScript code.
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