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ChrisDorna
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10 years ago

Which slide is using which master or layout

Is there a way to find out which slides are using a master/layout (also feedback)? In my project I have an old and a new masterslide. Although I have converted all slides to the new master, there is still an indication at some old layouts that they are used by one ore more slides. 

I changed the color of the feedback layouts but I cannot find these changes on the slides.

In ppt there is an indication which slides are using a layout, but in SL I can only see how many slides are using a particular layout

 

Thanks voor advise!

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    NickSondej
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    Google slides has a great way of showing this where you can still see the slide thumbnails in the master view and when you view a layout, it will highlight which slides use it.

    The fact that this has been a five year long feature request gives me no confidence that it will ever be fixed -- it's a huge customer issue, specifically when importing your modules as individual powerpoint files (that is how they are arranged in my in-person training that we're now converting to an LMS).  I had 8 different layouts that were effectively copies of each other, each created from a module import from ppt.

  • As of December 2020, if you are in slide master view and hover over a slide master thumbnail, there's a little tag that pops up and lists the slides using that slide master page. Somehow it was only after finding this thread that I discovered this, thanks all!

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      ChrisDorna
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      I only see the number of slides that is using the master

  • Just used Chris Dorna's Notepad++ steps from "over 5 years ago" to locate a master slide that was being used by 5 layers - not the base layer of course, that would have been too easy - of the same slide. The master slide in question had a distinctly-colored giant shape on it that I was able to see in the background. With around 200 slides in this course I've taken on from someone no longer with our organization, those steps saved me a ton of time. Thanks Chris! (P.S. It would DEFINITELY be nice if Storyline had an easy way to do this for us.)

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    ChrisDorna
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    Hi Greg,
    Great to read that my 'historic' post helped you! That's where forums like this are for.

    Articulate does not seem in a hurry to fix small changes like this (low hanging fruits) and the only way seems to be feature requests.

  • Hello Jose,

    I did what you describe and have been able te remove 10 out of 11 references to the feedback layouts of the theme Accessible. So just one left :-/.

    I checked every slide manually, but despite of that Storyline keeps saying that one slide is using the theme Accessible. I do see that in some slides it's still possible to select on of the layouts of the theme Accessible, but as far as I can tell, it's not in use in one of them. Do you know another trick to identify that one slide?

    The project file is almost 1 GB in size, so I think it's not a good idee to share it here on the forum :-).

    Thanks, Verhoeckx

  • Found it!

    The Feedback Layout wasn't used on any of the slides in the presentation, but on a slide in the Question Bank :-( !

    This is what I did to find it:

    1. Gave the Feedback Master and layouts a distinguishable name (the random word 'extraterrestrial'.

    2. Saved the file. created a copy of the story-file, changed the extension from story to zip and extracted the file.

    3. Searched for the word 'extraterrestrial' in the File Explorer.

    4. Found the XML-files belonging to the Feedback master and layouts.

    5. Searched for the property 'InternalG' (as you (Chris) described)

    6. Searched for the given value.

    7. Found the XML-file belonging to slide.

    8. In the XML-file I couldn't find the name of the slides, but did found some text.

    9. Copied that text and searched for it in Storyline.

    10. Found it was in a question in the Question Bank (which I don't use, but I remember trying it out).

     

    And so we keep ourselves busy :-)!