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BrianHiggins2's avatar
BrianHiggins2
Community Member
12 years ago

Text entry without a Submit button

Is there anyway to set up a Text Entry object to jump to the next slide when the correct characters are entered and no other action takes place. In other words - no submit button or user action ...
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Jürgen_Schoene_
Community Member
4 years ago

there is no solution 'out of the box' for your problem - in storyline you can check the value of a textfield, if the user leaves the field (-> ENTER, TAB, ...)

If you want to check the value live - while entering keys - you have to program this with javascript

 - on enter slide -> javascript

javascript
 - search the text input field (important - there are two html input fields for every storyline input field)
 - attach key event listener
 - check in the event listener the keys for 'arb705'
 - if input is correct, set a storyline variable

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 - trigger the variable, which you use in javascript,
   if correct
     -> remove event listener, submit and jump to next slide
   if not ...

Jürgen

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JagodaDordevic
Community Member
4 years ago

thanks for that Jurgen, unfortunately Javascript may not be the best solution for me going forward. I have not been able to see if Articulate have set anything in their roadmap to have this feature added without needing javascript, i know some other platforms have this feature and quite easy to use.