Text entry without a Submit button

Hi Todd!

So, in the real scenario, how does the user 'complete' the login? Is there a login button perhaps?

You should be able to set a trigger, as BJ shared above, of when the control loses focus.

Also, what version of Storyline are you using?

If you have a .story file for us to take a peek at, that would be helpful as well.

My company has online forms with up to 20 fields. The user would type a value in a field and press Tab or click in the next field to continue. Hitting Enter after you type in a form field is NOT the way it works in real life (it would submit the form).

Actually we found a workaround with triggers yesterday, but discovered the HTML5 version works for Storyline 2, but not for 360! https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/using-tab-as-a-submit-key-in-a-text-entry-interaction?page=2

My team also tested the Submit Key field in the Graded Question form does nothing. We entered in different keys, and none of them triggered the submission of the question in Preview or when published as HTML5 using Storyline 360.

Thanks for linking to the other discussion Todd and it looks like there is a file there for us to work with, so we can continue the conversation there.

Brian Higgins

I am working on what sound like the same issue. I have figured out how to accomplish everything except one aggravating detail. I’ll spell out I got where I am and then bring the bad news in at the end.

I will assume here that you already have the text entry fields created.

Created is trigger. Jump to next slide-When user presses the Tab key-If TextEntryX is equal to, ignore case XYZ.
Created is trigger. Show layer incorrect-When the user presses the Tan key-If TextEntryX is not equal to, ignore case XYZ
There should already be a trigger created by the TextEntry filed titled “Text Entry” Set TextEntryX equal to the typed value-When the control loses focus
In preview, it works great and I can go through 10 fields (1 field per slide) by typing in the field and pressing tab key.

Here is the bad news. In Review, you must click in the field before you type. Even though you can see the cursor blinking in the field. It seems the focus is not automatically on the Text entry field and I haven't found a way to make it. 

Has anyone tried this in Storyline 360 with HTML5 format? I'm not getting it to work. I want the user to enter a date, and if it's the correct date, the next slide pops up. If it's the wrong date, the Try Again message pops up, the user clicks Try Again, and the slide is reset and allows another attempt. When the correct date is entered, nothing happens. I must press Enter to move to the next slide, but I want an automatic advancement to the next slide.

So you MUST press Enter or Tab as a way to submit the text entry? I thought there was a way to automatically advance to the next slide without using Enter, Tab, etc.?

Thanks for helping out here Brian!

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I thought the Submit Keys in Form View are a way to submit the text without the use of Enter or Tab. Am I misunderstanding its use?
The user has to enter the correct date of 5/9/2014. In Form View, the Acceptable Answer is 5/9/201, and the Submit Key is 4. In Slide View, I created a trigger for the text entry box (see attachment).  Shouldn't this work?

Hi Bruce,

Also keep in mind that's showing as NumPad4 - but what if the user isn't entering it in on a keyboard with a number pad. 

Perhaps share a copy of your .story file here so that folks in the community can use that one to offer advice and suggestions.

Thanks for all of the replies. I learned my text entries aren't working because of a bug. It has been fixed in a recent version, so I just need to update Storyline.