Storyline Bug, lock up
At this point its a bug.. i have locked up storyline so many times and lost progress. Doing this same thing. If double click 'format painter' all is good i can format a few items. I click what it formats as expected, but with the tool still on if i hit shortcut for undo(ctrl+z) it just locks up storyline. I usally have to task manager to close it.Archiving old Review 360 projects?
Is there a way to archive old Review 360 projects? My team publishes a lot of courses there, and it's particularly difficult to find specific courses - barring search - without wading through every project we've ever published. It's particularly cumbersome when you're trying to publish a from storyline and you know there's a course in Review 360 already, but the is unwieldy. We don't necessarily want to delete projects, because we don't want to lose the comment history. We're just looking for a way to get the older projects out of the way. I guess we can create a folder in Review 360 and just move them there, but that doesn't necessarily fix the Storyline target problem.JavaScript to prevent user to force learners to watch entire video
The script you don’t want to use As an e-learning developer, I don’t want to force learners to watch a video all the way through. Not because it’s technically difficult — quite the opposite — but because playback time is not a guarantee of learning. We all know the reality: as soon as a video starts, it becomes a coffee moment or an ALT+TAB moment for many learners. The video continues playing, but the learner’s attention is elsewhere. “When media completes” often just means that time has passed — not that the content has actually been absorbed. This is something that comes up regularly in discussions with clients and accrediting bodies. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, it’s not possible to convince stakeholders otherwise. I’ve even encountered situations where accrediting organizations request a modified version of the same e-learning, allowing them to skip required elements during their own review process. A key limitation in Storyline is that you cannot dynamically control the video player at runtime. While feature requests can be submitted, there is currently no built-in way to reliably prevent seeking or playback speed changes based on runtime logic. That’s why I developed a JavaScript solution that prevents learners from seeking forward or changing playback speed. It avoids workarounds such as placing transparent overlays on top of the video or building a custom video player. Instead, a Storyline variable controls whether the video remains locked or whether full playback control is restored. It’s the script you don’t want to use — but sometimes need to. GitHub repository (documentation and source files): https://github.com/ChrisDornaELearning/Articulate-Storyline-Locked-videoplayer Articulate Review example: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b22d968d-65b0-4a0f-9bdb-90c6c8a0c9b5/reviewStoryline 360 Morph tool affecting objects that it shouldn't
I have a group of slides set up with Morph transition between each. I have several items that I don't want included in the transition. Mainly the Navigation bar and buttons. The navigation bar and buttons on every slide has a different object name. I even tried the idea of having a hidden object grouped with the object to make sure a new name is assigned. The objects are in the exact same place on every slide so there shouldn't be any movement, but the bar and buttons flash with every transition. What am I missing?How to get a Text Entry field to auto-focus when a layer loads
G'day, I have a Text Entry field that I'd like to have auto-focus when the layer it's sitting on is triggered to load so you can immediately start typing into it. At the moment, the field sits on top of a coloured box with a "Continue" button next to it. It's a field that the Learn Admin enters a password into, which then puts the course into "Admin mode" allowing them to jump around the course without the usual "NEXT" button restrictions - helpful for quickly troubleshooting course issues. When the "Admin Access layer loads, the field is not focused and you have to first click in the field before you can start typing. I read another Storyline Forum thread (HERE) on this same issue and they recommended using the "Focus Order" window to set the order of the objects that get jumped to when the user presses the Tab key, but I don't want them to have to press the tab key at all, I just need it to be automatically focused. Another contributor said that the object has to be at the bottom of the timeline (ie. the lowest object in the layering) and that actually works (the field is auto-focused when the layer appears) but I need my Text Entry field to be on top of a coloured box, so that's not going to work for me. Is there another/proper way to achieve this? As a workaround, I'm thinking of sending the Text Entry field to be the bottom object and then creating a series of boxes that surround the field (making it appear like its under the field), but I also have a larger 50% transparent, white box under that that I'll have to do the same thing with - a rather kludgy workaround. Many thanks, BrettNVDA Storyline 360 Software Simulation Issue
Hello all, I have been working on a software training course for a while, but I cannot share the product file, so I have tried my best to replicate the issue with a brief PowerPoint activity. My current project file has 6 scenes and 452 slides. I am looking for the easiest fix to the issue at this point, while avoiding backtracking on work. Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated as I am close to my wits' end. Below is a synopsis of the issue, the fixes I have tried, and the attached PowerPoint Activity project file. Build Background: I used the screen recording features in Storyline 360 to create both Try Mode Steps and Test Mode Steps for scenes in the course. I turned off Show Animation in the Capture Action Fine Turning. I have ensured that hotspot and text entry interactions are at the top of the timeline, above all other elements. I have deleted triggers where possible, but some of the Play Video Screen Recording Action When the User Clicks Hotspot 1 remain, as the program won't allow them to be deleted even after turning off the animations, so I have disabled them. I had to make additional cover-ups to hide employee IDs and information, as I did not have a fake user account. The cover-ups have been hidden from accessibility tools. Issue: When navigating the course with NVDA and Microsoft Narrator, the Try Again layer keeps deploying as the user selects the hotspot button for a second and announces "Incorrect," which will lead to annoyance and confusion for the learner. The Try Again layer does not deploy in the Test Mode Steps scenes, but it does in the Try Mode Steps scenes. The Try Again layer does not deploy when using keyboard navigation without a screen reader enabled. I do not want to remove the Try Again feedback, as it is important for sighted users. Triggers on Base Layer: When the user clicks outside Hotspot 1 - Show layer Try Again When the user clicks Hotspot 1 - Jump to slide next slide (Disabled) When the user clicks Hotspot 1 - Play video Screen Recording Action Triggers on Try Again Layer: When user clicks Try Again - Hide layer this layer Solutions Tried But No Success: Running the file as a published SCORM in test environment, Review 360, and in preview mode- Try Again layer still deploys in all environments. Expanding the hotspot area beyond the identified bounds. Changing the order of the user clicks outside Hotspot 1 and the user clicks Hotspot 1 triggers on the base layer but Storyline 360 does not allow me to change the position of these triggers under Hotspot 1 in the trigger menu. Adding back in the correct layers of the screen recording as shown in scene two of my attached example.Lost Text Animations by Paragraph After Translation
I just translated a Storyline 360 course into Spanish using the Word doc import. Nearly every slide has an animated text box with the setting "By Paragraph" so that each bullet point is timed with the audio narration. After translation, that menu option is gone and all the text comes in at once with no way to adjust it. I've tried several things to fix it (turning all the bullets off and on again, removing and re-adding the line breaks, etc.), but nothing gives me that option again on the Animations menu, Effect Options (Entrance Animations) menu. Never had this problem before with translations. Any ideas?Meet the Team: Hover Quotes for Storyline
Here's an example of how I've used quotes for meet-the-team type interactions. I've always been a fan of using quotes in my trainings and try to include a few in every course. Rise has some good options for quote blocks but quotes are rare in Storyline courses. View the example (download included)
