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AndrewWhatley's avatar
AndrewWhatley
Community Member
9 months ago

Sequence of Hotspots

Hello!  I'm new to Articulate Storyline and have a question about how to create a sequence of five hotspots.  I need the learner to click on the first hotspot at the top of the slide and then the subsequent hotspots as the learner moves down the slide.  How do I prevent a learner from clicking on the second hotspot without having clicked on the first one?  

Thanks for any guidance you can offer!

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  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    9 months ago

    Don't use hotspots. Use semi-transparent shapes instead. Why? Because hotspots don't have States, but shapes do. 

    • If you want the shapes to be invisible to the user, give the fill a 99% transparency. 
    • Give each of the lower shapes a Disabled state, and make that the Initial State.
    • In addition to the trigger to do whatever clicking a shape needs to do, add another trigger that changes the state of the next clickable shape to Normal. 

    Depending on what's on screen, consider adding a Visited state to the shapes, with some change to indicate that the user has already clicked that area.

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