Extra variables available to scripts?
Aug 10, 2012
Evening! We recently acquired Storyline after being a Captivate-only department for a while, and it's going great.
However, Captivate had a lot of "system variables" it made accessible to the user for scripts. Things like current slide, total slide count, if the slide list was visible.... are there user-accessible equivalents in Storyline? We built a lot of scripts and other functionality with that.
In particular, we're looking if there's an easy way to pull the current slide or total slides- we like using that data for little on-slide counters. Is this possible?
Any information on "oh, you can pull this or that system variable" would be helpful, though.
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Hey, Brett -
System Vars aren't currently available in Storyline. I agree that these are indispensable for development. Please submit a feature request for the vars you'd like to see. The more votes the better!
~Stay classy.
Here's the feature request link.
A bit of a hack, and requires more work. You could have a currentslide and totalslide variable. Set the total slide at the end of the project and the current slide using a slide level trigger
Not elegant but would work
Feature request submitted! Thanks for that link.
In the meantime, I built a workaround that accomplishes what I was trying to do: http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/16983/96377.aspx#96377
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