Variable text shrinking on the slide

Thanks for all your responses! This was such a great format for what we were  trying to accomplish in our courses. I am still trying to find ways to make it work or another approach that wont cause issues for the students. 

Thanks!

Has this issue been resolved for Storyline 360?  This seems like a very poor bug and something that should be addressed as a priority if not.  We have many occasions where students type reflective text, and thus, no control over the amount of text they will enter.  If we wish to show the students a review of what they typed along side feedback, this bug makes it next impossible.

Further more, when displaying the value of a variable in a text box, the text does not wrap whatsoever despite having the text box set to 'Do not auto fit' and 'Wrap text in shape'.

Hi there Jonathan,

I put together a quick sample file in Storyline 360 for you to test. In this file, I used the settings 'Do not auto fit' and 'Wrap text in shape' on the variable reference text box. 

Does this match what you're seeing?

Try placing the variable text onto a shape (no fill, no line) rather than a text box. 

Hey Bryan,

This thread is a bit dated, but I appreciate you chiming in to share your advice as well :)

Hello J and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

I am glad that this thread was able to help you out here and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts as well.

I agree! We realize that the older threads continue to help customers, which is why we like to keep them around, and we do not 'close commenting' as you may see in other forums.

What you're seeing, here, for example, is me letting the user know that we appreciate them chiming in and sharing an additional solution. Bryan's advice was able to help you in the future vs. assisting Jonathan 9 months after his original question. 

I apologize if that was misunderstood :)

Thanks for your excellent solution Bryan. Such a simple solution - turning a shape into a textbox by typing %variablename% into it works a treat. 

The inability of textboxes to resize to fit multi-line variable text for feedback was a big problem for me. 

Hi, this is an old post, but I still see this being an issue in SL360.

My solution is to

1. change the text box to Autofit: Do not autofit.
2. Increase the height of the textbox that contains the variable (and any other text), so that there is a generous amount of space between the last sentance and the bottom border of the textbox.

The fix doesn't make sense, but it works.

This seems to be an ongoing bug. If the textbox fits snug with the text, it will shrink the font size to about 1pt.

Thanks for chiming in and sharing what you are seeing as well, Sam. 

Do you know what version of Storyline you're using?

You can check by going to:
Help > About Articulate Storyline

We are currently on Build 3.30.19518.0 of Storyline 360. You can read all of the details here.

It looks like we've been unable to replicate recently, so if you have an example, we'd be happy to take a look.