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ChrisLeversha-6
Community Member
10 years ago

Text variables inside scrolling panel

Hi, I have a scrolling text panel that is populated dynamically with a text variable. My variable content will vary from anything from a single line of text to hundreds of lines. Whenever I publ...
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Crystal-Horn's avatar
Crystal-Horn
Staff
10 years ago

Hi Chris and Neil.  Chris, thanks for referencing that other discussion.  I'm going to include the link to our article describing the behavior of variables referenced within a text box here.  This behavior is by design, so while it isn't necessarily a "bug," it sounds like it is still a pain point for you and other designers--especially if you have lines and lines of text which will probably be impossible to read if it is resizing.  

Would you be able to submit a feature request, as others have done, to demonstrate this need to our development team from a customer perspective?  We share these threads internally as well to help with the feature request process.

MonzerratOnt935's avatar
MonzerratOnt935
Community Member
2 months ago

it's been 9 years, did it get fixed?

  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    Staff
    2 months ago

    Hi MonzerratOnt935​,

    Thanks for reaching out about this!

    We’ve recently rolled out Text Autofit improvements, and in my testing, upgrading the project text with this feature helps resolve the issue mentioned in this post.

    Have you had a chance to upgrade your project text and apply the textbox settings shown below? This should enable scrollbars when the text overflows. I attached my test Storyline project for your reference.

    Textbox settings to add scrollbars on overflow

     

    Looking forward to hearing how it goes.

    • MonzerratOnt935's avatar
      MonzerratOnt935
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      Thank you so much! 😃