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StoryLine360 Next Button Enable/Disable based on slide being already viewed
You don't need any of those triggers. You could just set the Player to use Restricted navigation.
Here’s how Restricted navigation works:
- Storyline puts the Next button in the Disabled state when the user first visits the slide.
- Storyline changes Next to the Normal state when the slide’s timeline ends. Simply adjust the timeline to adjust when Next will be enabled.
- Next remains in the Normal state whenever the user revisits a completed slide.
- This works even if you don’t show the built-in Menu.
- If you do show the built-in Menu, users will be able to click the Menu to jump to any previously view slide. But they won’t be able to click the Menu to advance to a new slide.
This post includes a file that explains and demonstrates various ways to control the NEXT button, including for interactive slides: TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
I was just looking for this answer - thank you!
Does this also work this way (restricted until viewed, then you can click back) if the trigger to unlock the next button is an interaction, rather than when the timeline ends?
What happens when you control the Next button for an interaction depends on your triggers. Refer to the link I provided in my original reply for details.
Thank you for your reply, Judy. Just to clarify my question - above you shared in detail (thank you!) how the restricted function should work, where the next button is locked until the timeline ends, and then if the learner revisits a slide, that next button should remain unlocked.
This is not working for me. I'm wondering if that is because i'm using a trigger "when the state of all hotspots is visited, unlock next" instead of the end of the timeline.
Do you think that could be why it is not unlocked on revisit?
When you add triggers to a slide to disable and enable the Next button based on an interaction, that overrides the Restricted navigation.
I couldn't replicate the problem you're describing. I set up a file with Restricted navigation. On the first slide, I added a trigger to change Next to Normal when an on-slide button was Visited. Here's what happened during Preview:
- The Next button did not change to Normal when the timeline ended.
- The Next button did change to Normal when the on-slide button was Visited.
- When I proceeded to the next slide and then returned to the first slide, the Next button was still Normal.
In many, many other posts on the Forum, folks have asked when the Next button is disabled when they return to an interactive slide. The answer: there's a trigger that changes Next to Disabled when the timeline starts (without any conditions in the trigger). That would disable Next every time the user returns to the slide. But, depending on the programming, the trigger that enables Next might not run again, so the user would be stuck on that slide.
If that's not the issue, yet your slide still doesn't work when revisiting it, I suggest you contact Articulate support directly.