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Visited State of a button appears before advancing to next slide
I am attempting to use buttons for a menu that has the following states: Locked, Unlocked, Hover, and Visited. When I click on the Unlocked state for these buttons, the Visited state appears right away before advancing to the scene that the button is connected to via trigger. How do I keep that Visited state from showing until the learner comes back to the menu?
The built-in superpower of the visited state is that it automatically changes to visited as soon as the mouse button comes up from clicking it. The only way to defeat it is not to use it. Instead, use custom buttons, triggers, and variables. An example of how to do it can be found in the sample in this discussion: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/free-sample-restricted-and-free-random-navigation-using-variables-and-triggers
Or, If you want to do a little more work for a less reliable and flexible method, you might try something like the attached sample.
Using states when jumping to different slides is less reliable. Using variables to indicate visiting other slides gives you a variable that you can use for other purposes in other places, and using states does not.
