Unable to resize marker text box after initial customization?? (SL2)

Hi Ken!  Welcome to Heroes.

Could you tell me a little more about your process?  Is this behavior occurring after you preview, save and/or publish?  Also, can you reproduce this problem on a new slide, or in a new test project?  I was able to resize my marker text boxes after previewing and saving.

If the problem is happening in all projects, you can run a repair of Storyline.

A best practice to keep in mind:  Always save and publish to your local hard drive (typically your C: drive). Working on a network drive or an external (USB) drive can cause erratic behavior due to latency, such as file corruption, an inability to save changes, and loss of resources.

You're welcome to share your .story file here as well by using the Add Attachment option in your reply!

I can confirm this issue is still present, I just found it. (why do I keep finding these!)

I have gone back to a course I was working on and the marker boxes are now unable to be resized.

This ones a little tough to replicate, but if I create a new one its fine, but seems to be after saving and closing/reopening the file. The markers have audio files attached to each one as well.

Looks like i'll need to remake them all to resize them :/

Thanks

Hi Jake,

Thanks for sharing here - and I'm sorry to hear you've run into another issue. I know you said if you created a new one it was ok, so I'd be curious to know any other steps you had in terms of replicating this so that I could look into it a bit further as this initial discussion is a bit older. 

Let me know if you can share those steps here or even a sample .story file would help as well. You can upload that here using the "add attachment" button at the bottom of the reply window. 

I am using Articulate 360 and this is now one year later and I am having the same problem. I just delete the marker and redo them. It is frustrating but I have not been able to change the size of the text box after I have published. 

Hi LaVon, 

Really sorry you're running into trouble with your markers!

I want to be sure I understand what's going on in your file. It sounds like you...

• Added a marker to the slide
• Resized the marker caption
• Published the file
• Tried to resize the caption again, but were unsuccessful

Does that sound correct?

I recorded a Peek of those steps to show you what happens on my end--take a look at that recording here. 

Would you also be able to record a Peek of what you're seeing? Thanks!

I have recreated the text on the slide and now I do not have the issue. You just have to be very careful to size the text box correctly the first time. If you do not and there is extra space then you will have to, at some point, recreate it to eliminate the extra space. It is working now that I have recreated the text box to the exact size I want. Recording it would no longer demonstrate the issue.

I can confirm the above behaviour. It seems random when it decides to 'turn off' the markers.

Most of the time when I reopen a project and modify them they are fine, but occasionally they become completely uneditable. Unfortunately I don't have any working files of them in this state as I've fixed them all.

It does seem to do it on a per slide basis though, rather than all the markers in a storyline file or just 1 or 2 on a slide. At least in my experience.

Difficult to fix it if it's not consistent I guess.

Thanks, LaVon and Jake. It is tough to nail down behavior that happens rarely and randomly, but I'll certainly keep my eye out for it. 

This has just happened to me in SL3

I created markers, saved the file, and published it. I then had to go in and add extra information to a marker. I was able to add the extra text ok,  however couldn't resize the text box.

I ended up deleting the marker and creating a new one.

To add to this... I inserted a graphic into the feedback text area of a quiz question. It is like I used glue. I cannot remove or change the graphic. Seems like a somewhat similar issue. I had to remove and then replace the quiz question. I have stopped using markers for now. Too much of an editing problem. I will wait till Articulate gets a fix.