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 reset the variables. With this in mind I came up with a new feature request. It would be great if there was a trigger to reset either all developer-created project variables (obviously excluding Storyline's system variables) and/or have a check list of variables used in the project where a developer can specify which variables they want to reset via a trigger, i.e. reset variable X, Y & Z when button clicked, timeline starts etc. I believe this would save developers a lot of time and would help keep this element of a build clean. I've requested the new feature here, if anyone else likes the sound of this I encourage you to do the same thing.

I have often wished for something similar, and I would support David's feature request. I recently had an idea for a possible work around. Instead of variables, create objects that are off-stage, for example, a set of simple rectangle shapes. Give these objects states that represent the values of interest. E.g., for each True/False variable, create a True and False state on an object instead. You could then use triggers to change the state of these objects instead of using triggers to assign values to variables. And you could check the current state of the object instead of checking the value of a variable. The advantage is that you could reset such "variables" simply by jumping back to the current slide, as long as you had Reset to Initial State set for the slide. In this way, these off-stage objects become like a set of local variables, but no triggers are needed to reset them en mass except the jump to slide trigger.

Hi :D I would still really benefit from this functionality but after some further occurrences of the issue in practice, I think it would be great if the enhancement could incorporate a tick box style selection method for when you don't necessarily want ALL variables to be initialised/reset. Scenario:A project has 2 distinct sections with a total of 10 user defined variables - 8 variables that affect only 1 of either sections and the remaining 2 affect both simultaneously. If you were attempting to Initialise/Reset multiple variables in the project but not necessarily all of them, a selection method would be the way to choose whether you want to Select All or Select Multiple Whether this looks better as 2 distinct triggers or 1 that can handle both is for the software developers to work out but I think this would enhance this functionality if considered :) For me the focus of this enhancement should be to reset any selected variables to their default values. I think initialising text and number variables to new values will always have to be 1 at a time situation as you need to define what the new value will be which is then the same as the functionality we have now - unless I'm mistaken in which case my bad!

Probably quicker to reset them all using javascript. I think there is a need for this type of trigger.

I would support the creation of this feature enhancement. [two thumbs up]

Yes, please. I was looking for the same answer and chanced upon this thread!

Trigger to Initialise/Reset ALL Variables in Storyline 360

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Mike_Marcos
Staff
3 years ago
Hello Alex,

Thanks for chiming in and for sticking with us through the years! I reviewed the thread and understand that a feature like this would be helpful, most of the ideas on these forums are.

Although I can't speak to how easy or difficult of a lift this request is since I am not a developer, I can tell you that we are keeping track of this. This feature does look like it has a large following with 35 unique non-staff users in this thread. We take user volume into consideration, we also use this to evaluate how well this compares to other feature requests. Compared to other popular requests the number of folks requesting for a reset all variable trigger is considerably smaller. This isn't the only factor we take into consideration, and you can glean more information of our feature request management here.
- S-JBirch
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Add me to the list of users that would like an easy to handle variable reset. Right now I do it by hand on one layer that only serves this purpose.
  
  By reset I mean set to default value, not just (blank)
RickBarrett
Community Member
3 years ago
With over 100 variables that I need to restart manually in my latest project, I'm adding my thumbs to the mix.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi Rick!
  
  Thanks for sharing the feedback on how this feature could help streamline your workflow when authoring in Storyline!
  
  I've included your voice in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap!
  
  Have a great rest of your week!
AdminFrenchFlai
Community Member
3 years ago
I am here to Back up this feature.
IT is annoying to reset variables by brute force =(
MalloryFrazier
Community Member
2 years ago
I agree, this is a feature that would save copious amounts of time.
HeatherEmeri153
Community Member
2 years ago
Came to this forum to find a solution before I spend the rest of my day building triggers to reset variables in a large project. Please add my vote.
MattRobinson-ad
Community Member
2 years ago
Okay, I would like to be able to do this, too. Add my voice to the choir.

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Trigger to Initialise/Reset ALL Variables in Storyline 360

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