Setting focus to text entry box in Storyline

I came across this issue today and was glad to find this thread; thank you everyone above for clarifying that the self-focusing only works for manual fields, and not as part of a quiz. I was pulling my hair out.

Because I needed the self-focusing text entry to be part of a quiz, I used this workaround:

• Use a 'pick one' question instead
• Put two random buttons off the edge of the screen: Correct and Wrong
• Set the 'pick one' up so that Correct button is the correct answer
• Add a text field
• Add a trigger so that the 'correct' button is selected when the text field is equal to whatever the right answer is (eg, when user presses enter)
• Add a trigger so that the 'wrong' button is selected when text field is NOT equal to the correct answer (when user presses enter)
• This will give you the ability to have the text entry field be both graded AND self-focusing (assuming you followed the advice in this thread and moved your text entry field to the bottom of your timeline).