When Revisiting: Reset to Initial State

I try to be deliberate in the When Revisiting setting I choose, yes. Some triggers, especially ones that fire "When the Timeline Starts on This Slide" will still trigger even if the slide is set to Resume Saved State, but not every trigger. Conceptually, use "Reset to Initial State" to have every visit to the slide essentially refresh everything, and use "Resume Saved State" when you more or less want the learner to resume the slide where they left off.

I was just helping someone else in another thread here a few days ago where their Previous Slide button didn't seem to them to work, but the solution ended up being to change their When Revisiting because a bunch of their slides paused the slide in the middle of the timeline and had triggers that jumped learners to a different slide "When the Timeline Ends."

Well, since the Saved State (how the learner had left it) included the Timeline being ended, that's what resuming meant when they pressed the Previous button: that as soon as the slide loaded, the trigger fired to send them somewhere else. The slide couldn't pause like it had done the first time they'd visited the slide because the timeline's playhead was already past that point. Thus the solution was to change the slide to "Reset to Initial State" so that the revisited slide could start over and pause once more, giving the user a chance to interact with it before that "When the Timeline Ends" trigger came up.

Are you able to share a .story file we can investigate? If triggers are hiding images or the images are "running out" as the timeline transpires, then those will remain hidden when the learner revisits the slide since that's the saved state they're resuming.