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ChintaleWilliam
Community Member
5 years ago

Revisiting Slides, Slide Layers & Restricting Quizzes

I've built a course and have found several technical issues that I cannot resolve. I'd love some assistance.  This is  a teachable moment, so I am a student waiting on answers, direction, and insigh...
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JudyNollet
Super Hero
5 years ago

Hi, Chintale,

PROBLEM 1

If you want to force the learner to view the full timeline of every slide in a (mostly) linear course, the easiest way to do that is to go to the Player and set the Menu Navigation to Restricted. With restricted navigation, Storyline will automatically disable the Next button the first time the user visits a slide. It will enable Next when the timeline ends. And it will keep it enabled (unless you add your own triggers.) Here's more info about restricted nav: 

https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-customize-the-menu#restrict

If you're using your own triggers to disable and enable the Next button, you need to add a condition to the trigger that disables Next when the timeline starts. Why? Because there's a bug, and Storyline will execute that trigger even when the slide is set to Resume saved state. So do this:

  • Create a T/F variable with an initial value of False. 
  • Add a condition to the disable-Next trigger so it only does that when the variable = False.
  • Add a trigger that adjusts the variable to True when the timeline ends (or when the required interaction is done). 

PROBLEM 2

Can you still use the slider? If not, I'd guess that your layers have a semi-transparent shape over the slider. If that's not it, I suggest you upload a copy of the file that contains only that slide.  That'll help with troubleshooting. Another option would be to submit a case to the Articulate staff, which you can do here: 

https://articulate.com/support/contact 

PROBLEM 3

Trigger order matters. Storyline can't execute a trigger after it's left the slide with that trigger. So try moving the trigger that adjusts the QuizAttempts variable so it's the first trigger on the Retry button. 

I hope this helps!