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Show/Hide Resources?
Is there a way to show/hide resources in Storyline?? If not, I'm open to ideas to accomplish the needed effect...
Here's the setup:
1. I've got a course that contains 9 different scenes.
2. In each scene, there is a document that is referenced and built upon as the story moves along through each scene.
3. I need to make sure that only the document that's applicable to a scene (i.e. scene 5 should only show doc 5) is available to view.
As it stands now, if I put all of the docs in the Resources tab, they can viewed at any time. Can I show/hide them when needed? If not, are there any other ways to make this happen?
Thanks so much for any help you can provide!!
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As Jonathan stated, this thread seems to have fallen of the radar. I'm looking for help on a similiar issue.
A client has requested that a document become available in the resource section only after the course is completed but ideally, they do want it available when revisiting the slides later. Meaning, if the learner comes back to the course, the resource section is open and available.
Seems like an easy ask but I've not been able to make this happen with just the standard functionality. Do I need to get into variables and triggers? Do they even work for a resource page?Thanks!
Gillian
Hi Gillian:
I know you're looking for a better built-in option, but I have done something similar in the past using lightbox.
What I did was create a separate scene with my lightbox files available on separate slides. Next, I put a button on each slide with a trigger to lightbox a slide and adjusted the lightbox options as the user progressed through the training. My icon was a, "briefcase", and filled with the applicable documents as the user progressed through the course. So, once the user reached a certain point in the course, the button would allow access to the entire suite of files/documents.
I'm not sure if that solves your issue, but that was a workaround I used.
Sounds like a great idea - thanks Jeff!
I came across this post as I am looking at a similar set up. We have some courses that will have several different scenes (one per language; the user would select the language from a drop-down on scene 1, then go to the scene with the correct translation of the course. Each scene would have attachments in that language. We do not want the people who choose Thai to see the document attachments in Portuguese. for example. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Hi Jennifer,
I know you're looking for a better built-in option, but I have done something similar in the past using lightbox.
What I did was create a separate scene with my lightbox files available on separate slides. Next, I put a button on each slide with a trigger to lightbox a slide and adjusted the lightbox options as the user progressed through the training. My icon was a, "briefcase", and filled with the applicable documents as the user progressed through the course. So, once the user reached a certain point in the course, the button would allow access to the entire suite of files/documents.
So, you may want to create a new scene (such as lightbox slides) and have 1 slide for each language, then have the button lightbox Thai, or Portuguese respectively. If the button is located on each slide, then they can always pull them up and reference them, and hide them as needed. I had added several lightbox slides that changed the resources based on the, "evidence" that they collected, so as they progressed through the course, each lightbox slide would have additional resources-- all the evidence they collected on their mission.
Hello Jennifer!
Great question! If you're adding resources to the Resources tab in Storyline 360, all learners will have access to all resources. Instead of using the Resources tab, I'd recommend adding a layer with the resources associated with each language. I created a simple example in Storyline 360 and attached it to this reply.
Let me know if that would work for you!
