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JesseTaber
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4 months ago

Storyline 360 Pros — What’s Your Favorite “Hidden Gem”? 💎

As someone who’s spent a lot of time working with (and on!) Storyline 360, I’ve come to appreciate the power in the little things — those lesser-known features that quietly make our lives easier. H...
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JeanMarrapodi-c
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3 months ago

My newest discovery is the ability to hide things on the base layer from a layer. There is a collapsible Base Layer Objects listed in the timeline of all layers. You can click to hide individual things from there if you don't want to hide all of the base layer. 

I have this dashboard allowing my learners to visit different parts of the exam in the order they choose. When they return to the main dashboard, my character Walter looks a little different and says something to them. Walter kept popping up from the base layer behind the new character as he animates in the beginning of the slide even though pause timeline on the base layer was checked. 

My initial workaround for this was to hide Walter on the base layer with a trigger, like this:

Now I just uncheck Walter on the base layer from each layer.



After learning about this trick from my student Sunita, this serves the same purpose and is much quicker. Walter is hidden on the base layer, and we keep moving along.