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Having a "trainer mode" in Preview
Hi Community!
My team and I are working with Storyline since last year.
We often come to a point where just a few triggers (or even only one) are not working as expected and here comes the problem: when setting up/changing a trigger we always have to preview the entire project to analyze if it's working as desired. Our courses tend to be very long, so previewing a course with having
- next disabled until users clicked everywhere
- next disabled until timeline ends
- only possible to move on when actions completed / statuses are visited
- ...
can take up to 30 mins each time!! And this list could be longer, if you know you know ;)
So: it would be more than awesome if something like a preview mode exists, where all of the mentioned restrictions could be toggled off for testing certain triggers.
I hope I was able to bring my thoughts to an understandable point as English is not my 1st language.
Thanks for reading and the opportunity to bring such discussions up.
Greetings from Germany
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This will work for any type of course. Shoot me an email and I can show you what I am talking about.
brian.m.caudill@gmail.comThis is 100% do able with just a bit of javascript code. Are you talking about something like this? A list of all the slides in the course with links to those slides like a jump list?
Hi, does this JavaScript make it possible to jump into different slides and layers without the need of previewing the entire project? And if so, are the triggers working as desired? And is a progress meter progressing correct? Because this is, what I'm looking for: doing a minor change and being able to preview it without the need of looking through the whole course (with all its restrictions for the user to not just proceed without listening/looking at every single thing).
For example, I implemented a custom progress meter. This took me a while until it worked properly because of multilanguage in one project, different scenes,.... and I wasn't able to check the progress bar without going through the entire project because the issue was at the end of the course.
This is only one example of why I'm looking for something like a "trainer previewing mode".
Thank you for coming back to me!
Hi Judy, thanks for reaching out.
Using the select button is indeed a good option, but for example the progress bar doesn't change properly and also the option to jump to a specific layer is not given. So it's not the perfect solution, but I can definitely work with it to analyze other things.When previewing, the Select dropdown lets you jump to any slide included in the preview.
And, yes, it works even in a course with restricted navigation.
I would second this as it is very much needed because it's a pain to go through and disable all the blocks and dependencies around the triggers when troubleshooting an issue after publication.
Another part to add to this is the ability to preview layers without having to build triggers to access them in the player. It'd be nice to see them as nested objects in the menu in the player during a preview. Especially if that's where the trigger is not working right, it would make it much easier to access those elements during a preview.
