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Timeline Stops When Another Tab/Window in the Browser is Clicked
Is there a solution preventing the timeline from stopping when the current tab loses focus?
The problem is that if you have an embedded video in the slide, the timeline stops, but the video keeps playing.
Since we want to ensure students are watching the embedded video entirely, we remove the video controls and extend the Storyline the length of the video so the Next button becomes enabled when the timeline ends. Because the timeline stops when the current tab loses focus, the Next button never becomes enabled.
Hello Oscar,
Happy to chime in!
When adding your embedded video to your Storyline 360 course, did you make sure to select the 'In Slide' option for showing your video as shown here?
Selecting this option will allow your video to play within the slide which will allow the timeline to run while the embedded video is playing. Here's a sample published slide with an embedded video so you can see how this option works. From here, you can set a trigger to disable the next button for the slide and assign a trigger to set it back to its normal state after the time duration of the embedded video has passed in the timeline. Note that you'll need to manually adjust the timeline of the slide to be as long or a little longer than the embedded video.
Hope this helps!