Scrolling panel with trigger

There is no trigger or condition that allows you to check the scrolling state of a scrolling panel. This may not work for you, but you could force the user to click some kind of acknowledgement at the bottom of a scrolling panel as shown in this example here.

I tried putting one object in the scrolling panel and another outside the scrolling panel so that when I scrolled, the first object would intersect with the second once the panel had been scrolled to the bottom.

I then added a trigger to occur when the first object intersected the second, but this led to the slide refusing to load.

Hi Chris!

Sounds like you had a great idea. Sorry to hear this did not work well for you.

Would you be able to share a sample .story file so that we can take a look?

I've attached a sample file.

We're still using v3.4.10364.0 due to a technical issue preventing the software being updated, so this could be something that's since been resolved.

Hi Chris, 

I tested this in the latest update of Storyline 360 (Update 12) and it seems that Storyline is not a fan of the combination of the intersection trigger with an object inside your scrolling panel - as the slide would load if I removed the intersection trigger or removed the object from the scrolling panel. 

With those two items it doesn't preview, or load in the published output either. 

I see a similar issue with an object intersection trigger that doesn't work when supposed to intersect with an object in a group - and since a scrolling panel is similar to a great that makes sense. In that scenario you can set it to intersect with the entire group vs. an individual piece of it - and that works. That clearly wouldn't work for a scrolling panel  though! 

I can share this with our team as a possible software bug. I'm not sure how it's supposed to work actually - as the "intersects" with is often connected to a motion path and not a scrolling panel! I'll let you know either way what I hear back from the team.  

I don't consider this to be a critical issue. This rather convoluted technique exists only because of a lack of triggers specific to a scrolling panel. Good triggers would be:

• When an object is visible in a panel
• When an object ceases to be visible in a panel
• When the bottom of the panel has been scrolled to

A visible state would also be good so we can make things occur whilst an item is visible.

Ooo! Love those ideas, Chris! I did report this to the team - because if the triggers are there I understand trying to use them. But, I'll also include your ideas for new triggers. Thanks! 😀

Hi Marvette, 

I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!

Adding a +1 to the report of the intersecting triggers not working when used with scrolling panel objects. That's the only way I could think of to check whether or not the learner scrolled to the bottom of a scrolling panel, so I'd love if this was fixed. Thanks!

Just an idea, but you could try adding a full screen hot spot or transparent image to the area the user would have to hover over in order to end scrolling. Create a trigger that changes the state of the arrow when the user hovers of said hot spot/image. I tried this in SL 3 (I don' t have access to 360)  with an image and it worked.