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TizArnold's avatar
TizArnold
Community Member
4 days ago

Choose your own sequence

I’m less than a week into using Storyline and I’m building a course for my portfolio. I’ve figured out a lot on my own but here’s one thing that’s got me stumped.

My course has three main scenes and I want users to be able to go through them in any sequence. After they complete all three and return to the main menu, is there a way to trigger an ‘I’m done with all three’ button to show up? I built a layer but can’t find any relevant trigger.

(Or maybe there's another solution entirely. I'd take that too!)

e-learning development
storyline 360

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  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    4 days ago

    What you're describing is basically a custom-menu slide. This post includes the instructions and a demo file for creating one. It focuses on changing the NEXT button to Normal after all the topics have been viewed, but the same concepts work for showing a "Done!" layer.  TIP: Create a Custom Menu Slide | Articulate - Community 

    Here are the basic instructions adjusted to show a layer after the topics are viewed: 

    • Create a T/F variable for each scene (topic, module, branch, or whatever you want to call it). Set the initial value be False to represent that the user hasn't yet completed the scene.
    • On the last slide of each scene, create a trigger that adjusts the corresponding variable to True when the timeline starts or ends (depending on your preferred restrictions). Alternately, add the trigger to the Next button. But if you do that, be sure the trigger appears before the trigger that jumps to the next slide.
    • On the custom menu slide, add a trigger to show the layer when the timeline starts on the slide. Include conditions so this trigger only executes if all of the variables = True. (Tip: To ensure all conditions are met before the trigger will run, connect the conditions with "AND.")

     

    Alternately, you could have the "Done" message appear in a text box or shape on the base. Give it an Initial State of Hidden. Then change its state to Normal when the timeline starts with the same conditions described above.

     

    By the way, this Exchange Best Practices section is for general questions about eLearning. You're asking how to do something in Storyline. That type of question is a better fit in the Discuss Articulate Products section of the website: Discuss Articulate Products | Articulate - Community. That's where those of us who regularly answer questions about how to use the software spend more of our time. And that's where more folks go to search for answers.