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ELOUPEI
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Slide Layers Not Displaying Properly

I have a drag and drop interaction where the user can create a "guiding principle" by combining word choices, one each from three different categories. There are three word choices in each category for a total of 27 different end combinations. There are three different layers, each one displays a different feedback statement based on which combination of words the user selected. The problem is, the layers aren't displaying correctly...most of the time a layer displays...for a few nothing displays when I click my custom submit button. I'm figuring variables are needed but I still can't wrap my head around exactly how to do it.

  • Wow...that was simple. Unchecking the box for that setting didn't end up behaving the way I thought it would. I had it checked because I figured the state would change before the interaction was submitted via clicking the submit button. That wasn't the case at all. Thanks for the help.

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  • The main problem is in Form View." Integrating" is assigned to be dropped on the "Orientation" label. That means it'll never be "correct" when dropped on the desired drop target.

     

    I also suggest that you adjust the Drag & Drop Options so an item will be returned if dropped outside "a correct drop target." This prevents the user from dragging an item to the wrong target. (That may not be likely, but it is possible when the options are set to return if dropped outside any target.)

     

    Finally, I suggest you redo the Submit button. Currently, it doesn't say "Submit" except on Hover. That means "Submit" won't show to someone using a keyboard. And, even for those using a mouse, it's not intuitive to go to that location. (BTW, I didn't bother to listen to the audio. Even if that says where to click, I still think it's best to show "Submit" all the time.)

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    ELOUPEI
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    Thanks for the reply. While the mistake I made in assigning the drop location has now been corrected, sadly it hasn't changed the correct layer displaying on repeated use of the interaction. Ideally, the learner would try a few times to make guiding principles by mixing and matching the options so the interaction should reset each time the learner goes back to the base layer to try again. Instead, while the first time does work correctly in displaying the right feedback layer, after that whatever the learner creates the feedback layer that displayed the first time continues to be displayed every time after that. There are three different feedback layers and while F1 is the most common response to what the learner creates, there are times that F2 and F3 layers should appear instead.

  • Your triggers looked fine, so I pondered what else could be causing the problem. Then it occurred to me that items might not be changing back to their Normal state after having been selected.

    To check this, I edited the "Dropped Correct" states so they looked different than Normal. I just gave those shapes a gray fill. That made it easy to see that they weren't changing back to the Normal state. For example, if Developing was "Dropped Correct" after the first submission, it stayed in the "Dropped Correct" state even after another option was selected in that set. 

    Fortunately, the fix was easy. In Drag & Drop Options, I deselected "Delay item drop states..."

    With that setting, an item changes back to Normal as soon as another item is dropped into the associated target. 

    You can see this in the attached file. 

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    ELOUPEI
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    Wow...that was simple. Unchecking the box for that setting didn't end up behaving the way I thought it would. I had it checked because I figured the state would change before the interaction was submitted via clicking the submit button. That wasn't the case at all. Thanks for the help.

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      JudyNollet
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      You're welcome! Pay it forward when you can. 😊

      P.S. I'd appreciate it if you would click the "Mark As Solution" button on my earlier reply (not on this comment). Yes, selfishly, that increases the count of solutions on my Profile page. More importantly, it marks the issue as SOLVED, which might help others find the answer when they have a similar question.