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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!
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.
Thank you, Judy! That advice was very helpful!
