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Sara
4 years agoCommunity Member
Slide state: reset to initial state?
Hi all,
After numerous users reported a loss of their progress, our LMS provider suggested to us to reduce the amount of characters which are saved in the 'suspend-data'. To do so, it was suggeste...
JudyNollet
7 months agoSuper Hero
Resetting the slide to its initial state doesn't reset any variables used on the slide. It was programmed that way on purpose.
As Ned said in his comment above, a variable is accessible from all slides. When a variable's value is adjusted, it maintains that value until a trigger changes it. That's partly what makes variables so useful.
Multiple slides might refer to the same variable . Yet some of those slide might "Reset to initial state" and some might "Resume saved state." That could make a variable useless if resetting also reset variables.