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Restriction Access
Dear Team,
I want to add restriction to my menu buttons in attached file,
I want learner to view those in series starting from left (Overview to right),
Regards.
- SarahHodgeFormer Staff
Hi Issa and welcome to the community! 🎉 The easiest and fastest way I can think of would be to:
- Group each of the menu items so you have Overview Group, Liability Group, etc. (this is so the learner only has one option to click for that section)
- Add a white transparent shape over the 4 items in the menu you don't want available immediately (see the image below for example).
- Add a trigger to Change the state of Liability transparent box to Hidden when user clicks Overview Group (this makes it so when the user clicks that first section, the next section becomes available)....do this with each of the items until all is revealed.
I hope that helps! If you're looking to do something different, please let us know!
- IssaMchongoma-1Community Member
Dear Sarah,
Thank you so much for the advice, though my idea was to restrict user to go in sequency, like learner should not allowed to access Liability if overview is not viewed and completed.
Regards
- IssaMchongoma-1Community Member
On top of that,
I can't Edit State if i tried to Group them,
regards.
- SarahHodgeFormer Staff
Hi again, Issa! 👋I see what you mean. I didn’t explain my idea very well. The example I suggested would make it so that when the learner clicks Overview, it goes to that lesson and the Liability button wouldn’t be visible until they went back to the main menu slide and then that would continue with each section. I edited your story file to show what that could look like with each section (see attached file). However, if your learner has access to the main menu slide anytime and you have a lot of slides for each topic, then my idea wouldn’t work because they could go back to that main slide and see the next available section before viewing all of the slides in the previous section. In that case, you may want to check out this locked menu example by Allison LaMotte. She also wrote an article on how to create something like this so you can adapt it for your own course if you'd like.
As for states, you're right...you can't edit a grouped object. I like to make changes to the individual object states and then group them together after I’m done. For example, you created a hover state for the icons...Storyline 360 will still show each icon's hover state when the learner hovers over the grouped object. The story file I edited shows how it all behaves with each section grouped. I hope that helps!