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DavidTait's avatar
DavidTait
Super Hero
8 years ago

Trigger to Initialise/Reset ALL Variables in Storyline 360

I've been building an interaction today that uses a lot of variables. There's a point in the interaction where the learner has the chance to reset everything and I've had to add a LOT of triggers to...
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KellyAuner's avatar
KellyAuner
Staff
3 years ago

Hi Robert,

Thanks for reaching out and including a real example of how this feature would be beneficial! I don't have an update currently, but I'll be sure to share your comments with our team and update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap!

  • Rob_Auchenpaugh's avatar
    Rob_Auchenpaugh
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Thank you for the response, Kelly.

    The course/activity I was referring to is one where the user has to make a number of choices regarding options to offer a customer, after first reading the scenario and then choosing which probing questions to ask the customer based on the details in the scenario. Then they choose individual business options to offer based on the questions they chose and the answer the customer responds with in the simulation. That takes them to a review page where they can see all the options and it shows them which ones they chose...here they can review and change the options before submitting. Each of these steps involves a number of variables - mainly true/false but also some related to scoring that are numerically weighted related to which options they choose...some give more points and if they choose ones that aren't appropriate it takes away points. All of this interaction and scoring is driven by manipulating variables.

    I would love to create additional activities like this but the resetting of things between scenarios and to reset everything for the user to run it all again is just so time intensive. Obviously I'm not a programmer (or I would have come up with some JavaScript way of doing it probably) so I know I tend to think things are easier than they probably are... but, since all the variables exist in a table with the default values stated, it does seem like a trigger to reset them all to the default value just wouldn't be that hard to do.

    Thanks for your consideration.

    Robert

  • AlexConnor's avatar
    AlexConnor
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Hi Kelly,

    Given the length of time since this was opened and my original upvote in 2019, I'm curious to the development strategy here... this is a basic feature that if given to the right member of the development team could be built in a day to be tested and released in as little as a single cycle.

    Panel options:

    Function to reset all with option for excluding selected variables which appears as a selection box or formula bar to list variable names to be excluded

    user assigns action to button which if clicked:

    1. identify all variables (minus those that have been excluded)

    2. reset values to default

    5 years on with 52 comments... what is the criteria that this feature suggestion is clearly falling shy of and what prevents it being delivered??

    Please and thank you