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Restricted navigation behaving as free or locked but not restricted
When choosing restricted navigation there is now a button to restrict prev/next buttons - if that is chosen, then it behaves as if locked - no forward or BACKWARD navigation. Not what I want.
Howe...
In the attached file, the navigation is set to Restricted, with the checkbox selected to Restrict Next/Previous buttons.
Here’s what happens when the course starts:
- PREV is Disabled on the slide 1. (Well, there is nothing to go to at this point.)
- On the 1st slide, PREV will only be Normal if I jump back to it by clicking it in the Menu. Otherwise, it remains Disabled. (I assume this is to cue the learner that they're back at the start of the course.)
- PREV is Normal on the other slides.
- NEXT is Disabled, but it automatically changes to Normal when the timeline ends. Thus, the longer the timeline, the longer the button remains unclickable.
- This button stays Normal when revisiting the slide. This happens on all slides (unless custom triggers override it).
Thus, these settings are used to ensure the user views slides in order, and views the entire timeline of all slides.
Unchecking the Restrict Next/Previous buttons checkbox keeps the Menu restricted, so the user can't click it to jump ahead in the course. However, as you noted, it doesn't lock the NEXT button. So this setting would be used to ensure the user views the slides in order, without requiring them to view the entire timeline.