Show/Hide the player menu in storyline

The way I accomplish this is by making the menu button a tab in the Topbar (Left or Right) depending on which side you want the menu. This is done through the player properties.

By default the Menu is in the Sidebar:

From here simply click on the menu listing to high light:

Then click on the up arrow (circled in red) to position the menu tab where you'd like it to reside in the player.

View the Player preview on the right to see where the menu tab resides:

Now click OK and  preview the player. You can toggle the menu on and off.

Let me know if this is clear and is what you were after.

Lou

Hi Boudwejin!

Nope, you're not missing anything

The option for the user to show / hide the menu on a per slide basis isn't currently available. It's a popular feature request though. 

An option that might work for you: instead of your user being able to toggle the menu on or off, you, the author, can control exactly which slides it appears on from your end. 

Here's how. 

Hope that helps!

...... Knowing that it's a popular request and easy enough to implement, why, a year later, has it not been implemented?? Or am I now missing something?

Hi Laura!

Welcome back! You can remove the menu tab by adjusting the player properties. Here's a quick step-by-step.

Thanks for the answer. I'll have to construct my own navigation panel in this case.

Hope the feature will appear in an update soon, would be a handy tool!

I hear ya Maybe some of the ideas from this thread can help get you started with the custom menu.

And feel free to add your voice for any feature you'd like to see in the future.

Thanks!

Hi Ros,

I don't claim to know the minds of our development team, and so just because it's a popular feature request I wouldn't want to assume that it's an easy enough element to include or where it ranks in terms of popularity or priority. Storyline is also still in version 1, update 6 - the updates have focused solely on bug fixes that you can see documented here, and I suspect when version 2 of Storyline is released there will be a lot of new features included based on what users have shared in the feature request link. I don't have a time frame for when Storyline version 2 will be released, but you'll want to stay tuned here in the forums and I'd also subscribe to the Word of mouth blog, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

I know it's been a while but do you want the user to be able to hide and show the menu? I know of a way. Let me know.

Hi Lou,

This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain that folks are subscribed, but if you want to share the example or update here I'm certain others would appreciate it. 

Hi Zo,

You may want to message Lou directly using the "contact me" button on his profile since this thread is a bit older and I'm not sure if he's subscribed. 

There are a number of different discussions around building a menu, so you may want to look at some of the ones shared here and search the rest of the ELH forums.