Trigger to Initialise/Reset ALL Variables in Storyline 360

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.

vote from me

A vote from me as well. Would be a really useful feature!

This would be incredibly helpful!

Thanks for adding your voice, folks! We're keeping track of each request. 😁

Please add my vote for this enhancement as well.

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!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Alex.

I've added them to the report.

For the love of everything yes. I've been wanting this for yeaaarsss. And now that Storyline has split out Project vs Built-in variables, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add it as a feature. 

All my work lately has been escape-room like games, sims, and other variable-driven work where I gotta reset all 50-100+ variables at the end with Javascript --- which is faster than triggers, but a master "Reset all Project Variables" one-and-done trigger would be dreamy. 

I support this request, because it can get tedious to reset each variable individually, as you just cannot reset more than one variable per trigger.

We have drop-down menus when we wish to check the state of multiple objects. Would it be possible to have something similar for variables?

"Adjust variable of [all variable checked] to False when user clicks."

It can be separated by variable type, be boolean, numeric or text.