Forum Discussion
Slide identification strategies
Hello,
Most of my work involves updating existing SL courses, and often these courses require a great deal of reorganization. I get easily confused and frustrated because there is no way to identify a slide in a way that "sticks" when you move it around. The number changes every time it's moved, (and even scenes can re-number), and the slide titles are often the same for many slides and/or quickly become irrelevant as things get split out and changed and whatnot. And the wholly inadequate Story View interface doesn't help.
So I'm taking notes on what is in each slide, then on paper I'm moving things around, but as soon as I go to actually move the slides in SL, the numbers are now different. Multiply this by twenty and my notes become completely irrelevant.
I wish there was a "slide number" indicator that never changed once a slide was created no matter where it gets moved to or if its title changes. And the slide number could be seen in story view all the time,
Do other people run into this? Are there any tricks I can borrow?
I don't know of an easy way to make this happen. I have added a slide number box on my master in the lower right corner. Then as I make slides, I add the number. After I publish in review, and I like how everything works I change the number and publish.
Is there any unique identifier per slide/layer in storyline?
What is a best practice method for using your own diy identifiers?
If you trigger jumps to slide names instead of next and previous, this problem goes away. I realize it can be tedious to go back and rework a presentation, but if you are creating from scratch, it's well worth the time.
I guess it depends on how you want to spend your time, and what your frustration tolerance is.
