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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!
Hello everyone!
Happy to share that we've just released a new update for Storyline 360!
In Update 118, we've included essential fixes and new features. We've released an enhancement for:
- Identify where slide masters, feedback masters, and layouts are used across your project to make design updates faster.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help.
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The Slide layout is visible on one of the layers!
Not sure what it is, but there is something wrong here. On the other hand, if there is a simple method of showing the slide background on layer, I could use it.
When I look which feedback layout is used there is no feedback layer selected.
All layers use the feedback master, not just feedback layers.
When I add a 'real' feedback layout to the layer the number of Master layouts decreases.Curiouser and curiouser!!
I just did the shape as Phil suggested 4 years ago. Worked well on my relatively short course (only 100 slides and not all have layers), but too bad this hasn't received any attention. What a tedious way to go through and get your layouts in order!
I'm glad this conversation was able to help you out as well, Lindsay. Thanks for chiming in to share.
We do have a feature request that we are tracking for the ability to identify which Slide Masters are in use and where they are in the project.
I've attached this conversation to the report as we track user impact and so that we can share any updates with you here.
I find that if I have a slide open and I go to Slide Master, it opens on the layout used for that particular slide.
Great tip, Nicole. Thanks for popping in to share.
Ha, the shape-workaround worked for me as well. Thanks.
Still, it would be great to have a "reverse search" for used masters.Ta.
Felix
Def. would be a great addition...I can imagine something similar to the Use Count column in the variables dialog box, w/ a link to show the specific slide names.
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!
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.)
