Setting focus to text entry box in Storyline

That's what I did, I placed it at the bottom of the timeline, below anything else...but it still didn't work. That leads me to think that the problem is that Text Entry objects (created when setting up a fill-in-the-blank question) and Text Box objects are not identical and have different behaviors.

Hi Jonathan,

I am not sure i got you right

Do you want that the text box marker will blink automatically? If so, locating the text box at the bottom of your time line by itself won't help you to achive what you want.

You need to open a new layout in your MASTER SLIDE and  insert the background image over there.

Then you need to select this new layout for your slide and  then when you will locate the text box at the bottom of the time line  the text box will blink as in CLI modes..

if you can share a screen shot it will be easier to better understand your needs.

All the best

Hi Jonathan,

I totally see what you're talking about: Inserting a text entry box via the menu: Insert >Data Entry: Text entry box behaves as expected; that is, the text entry box is immediately highlighted so Learners need NOT click in the box to activate it.

But, when a text entry box is "auto" created, via a Fill-in-the Blank quiz or a Free-Form Text Entry quiz, the expected behavior doesn't occur, and it's necessary for the Learner to click in the box to activate it.

I hope someone steps in and either describes how to achieve this functionality OR whether it is NOT currently achievable. In which case I, and I assume you, will submit a feature request.

Being able to "set focus" with a trigger would help out a lot.  Then you could use a Tab key press with additional triggers to set your tab order!  I hope someone at Articulate is listening, this sure would help out a lot of us. 

Well, I thought I'd bump this again.

Can Articulate please let us know how to work around this? If you look at Jonathan Bacon's question posted April 8th, he explains it well, And I sort of reprise it on April 9th. Thought it might be easier to have y'all scroll up than see a really long post of quotes inside my question.

Also, please see attached. I've created 3 text entry slides here:

One by inserted a text entry on a "blank" slide

One using the graded quiz fill-in

One using the freeform fill in.

Summary:

The text entry box via Insert >Text Entry can be inserted on a slide so it is automatically highlighted and ready for Learners' input. This doesn't seem to be doable on the Graded Fill-in and Freeform Text entries. Is there a workaround? Should we submit a feature request?

Hi Rebecca :)

Thanks for the info and the file. I can see exactly what you mean - the generated fields contain the instruction text, but the field itself isn't selected. 

I'm afraid I don't know of a way to get this to function differently and it appears to be working as designed. I can definitely see why this would be an appealing and functional feature, though. 

If you, or any of the community members interested in being able to set the focus for question text entries, haven't submitted a feature request for this, I would definitely suggest doing so:

Articulate - Submit a feature request

Thanks very much!

Yeah, Christine. Finally someone responded to this thread! I'm imminently sending a request along and I hope others who have subscribed will do so also.

You're probably off by now, so I hope you have a nice evening and rest of the week!

Thanks, again.

P.S. I think this link may be more direct for feature requests

Thanks, Rebecca :)

Also - thanks for the heads-up on the link - not sure why it ended up with that one, but I've updated it.

Thanks again and have an awesome day!

Christine

This is the ONLY way I could get the cursor to automatically show up in the text entry field as the slide began - put the background on a slide master, and start with the text entry field as the only element on the slide.  I added a trigger to the next slide as the tab key.  I duplicated the first slide, move the text entry field to the next blank on the form, and added a text box to show the first form field as filled in.  The *master slide* for showing the form did the trick for me.