"Hi Katie - Michael's suggestion is excellent. Another option would be to have each hotspot set a variable to true. Then you can check th..."

"Hi MIkki - If you can, post the working file (.story) so we can see how you have the videos set up in the layers et cetera. Thanks. Chris"

"Hi Karen - You can indeed select specific objects on the base layer to hide. In your layer, look at the bottom of your timeline and you ..."

"But here is another approach for issue 2 which will work ok I think. More variables... :-) create a true/false variable for each case ..."

"Hi Mikki - Can you post your storyline file here? You can use the Add Attachment button at the bottom of your reply. I'd be happy to tak..."

"Hi Holly. Regarding your second issue, you said "It worked brilliantly for the "Case 1" and "Case 2" buttons but for the remaining 7, th..."

"Hi Manfred - Although the Storyline functionality is working as expected (if the learner exits from the Results slide they will be retur..."

"Hi Manfred - Unfortunately it looks like your attachment didn't attach. Can you do it again?  Chris"

"I thought your logic looked Flash-ish. :-)   I could tell you knew what you were doing and wanted to accomplish. With your experience I t..."

"Hi Terri - In your triggers for the "Yes I want to try..." button (button 1), add a trigger to "Hide Layer This Layer" before the "Jump ..."

"Hi Mikki - Just to clarify... you are laying a text box over the top of a video? When the video plays, the text box is there, but it dis..."

"Oh... and your second issue... I assume you have two triggers for each button, one to change its state and one to navigate to the appropr..."

"Hi Holly - The good news is there's not A way to prevent someone from advancing, there are a LOT of ways.  :-)   It sounds like the lear..."

"Hi Manfred - Can  you attach your storyline file here so we can take a look at the logic? Regards, Chris"

"Hi Christian - The when variable changes trigger has been difficult for us to use too - it might not be a bug, but rather they designed ..."

"Hi Ashley - I'm sure it was by design that you can't add a "when variable changes" trigger to any object - not a rectangle, caption, tex..."

"Hi Kendra - There's a couple of ways to handle that. One is to prevent clicking on the base layer as Emily suggested. Another option is..."

"Hi Soogyung - I didn't know it either until I started investigating your issue. I'm always learning something new.  :-)   Glad you were..."

"Thanks Ashley - I forgot to mention that part. :)"

"Glad to help. :)  And I agree Ashley - I think as a general rule it is best to stay away from "When Variable Changes" triggers. There is ..."

"So a quick summary of what you might consider doing... Delete the buttons on each layer. You only need them on the base. On the base,..."

"Hi Kendra - As Michael said, you have copied the buttons from the base onto each slide. The buttons on the base are changing to the visi..."

"Hi Soogyung - It looks like the "Fail the Quiz Trigger" rectangle (rectangle 4) on your 2nd slide is the culprit. If you hide that recta..."

"Hi Mary - You can't change the Next button to a Close button. But... You could either direct them via text  to the X button in their bro..."

"You can't hide the base "layer" itself as it is not really a layer, but you can hide the objects on the base as Leigh suggests. In addit..."