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Timeline trigger with conditions not activating
I have a pseudo quiz and feedback section in my project as follows:
- Users are presented with five persona cards to click on the Main slide.
- When they click a persona card, it branches to another slide.
- Each Persona slide contain more info plus a set of radio buttons to choose from. They choose one and click Submit.
- A feedback layer shows (on the Persona slide) describing info related to their choice. They click Continue and are returned to the Main slide. A variable indicating this persona has been visited is changed to True.
- On the Main slide, a layer shows for the Persona just visited to indicate it has been viewed.
- The user can select another Person to view and we repeat steps 2-6.
- When all Personas have been viewed, a Continue button should appear which, when clicked will branch to a recap slide.
My issue is that the Continue button never displays.
I have a trigger hiding the button when the timeline starts on its timeline. Another trigger changes it to Normal when the slide timeline starts if all the personas visited variables are True.
If I change the trigger and set it to Normal on the button timeline (instead of the slide), the project shows a buffering three dots progress bar thing and freezes.
There are a few triggers on the timeline jumping forward to manipulate animations on the Persona cards, but nothing impending the timeline from finishing. I don't want to change these.
I've tried various methods of setting the button to Normal related to timelines or time reached, but can't get it to display. Attached is a simplified version of the project with only 2 personas and just the basic functionality.
If anyone can help make this work, I would greatly appreciate it.
5 Replies
- amorrissenCommunity Member
Apparently, the file didn't get attached and there's no option for me to attach anything in this reply.
How do I attach the story file?
- amorrissenCommunity Member
Let's try a Google Drive link instead:
- JudyNolletSuper Hero
The trigger to change the state of the Continue button to Hidden always runs when the user returns to the slide. I'm guessing that when you had it set to "when the timeline of this slide starts," that trigger came after the trigger that changed it to Normal if the variables = True. And it definitely runs after the change-to-Normal trigger if it runs "when the timeline of the button starts."
Here's the easiest fix: Don't use a trigger to change the Continue button to Hidden. Just set that as its Initial state.
- amorrissenCommunity Member
Thanks so much, Judy. That worked perfectly!
I didn't know about Initial States either, so I learned something new from this too.
- JudyNolletSuper Hero
You're welcome! Pay it forward when you can. 🙂