Jerry Beaucaire
Jerry Beaucaire
Training Specialist at Rain for Rent
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Jump to specific part of the NOTES panel
"Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to apply it to one of my projects and it doesn't seem to have any effect. Here's the course, the..."
  • 4 years ago03/06/20 at 8:38 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire started a new discussion Jump to specific part of the NOTES panel
"Since there is only one NOTES panel on the side for an entire slide, and there can be an infinite # of layers on that slide, does anyone ..."
  • 4 years ago03/05/20 at 7:17 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire started a new discussion Built-In variable to hide/show the MENU
"Please give us an in-course built-in variable to toggle the MENU open/close. We have this variable (Player.DisplayCaptions) to specifical..."
  • 4 years ago03/05/20 at 6:47 pm (UTC)
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"Create a numeric variable called Mismatches, default value of 0 Go through all your triggers, for every event where you change the Feedba..."
  • 4 years ago03/05/20 at 4:53 pm (UTC)
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"No, creating a few triggers to control the action slide by slide is Storyline 101, I couldn't in good conscious recommend your sugge..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 11:59 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Essay questions
"A lot of plumbing goes into something like this. Since time is $$, I'd recommend only pursuing ideas with a lot of plumbing t..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 10:56 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Audio File - Play only once
"Create a True/False variable called Audio1Played. Add a trigger to set Audio1Played=True when media completes, and select the appropriate..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 10:53 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Dropdown menu that remembers value
"Your technique is sound and the year selected IS remembered in the variable you created %learnerYear% I added a trigger to each box ..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 10:51 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion making a text box glow in place
"Use STATES. To each textbox add a state called GLOWING which is a duplicate of the Normal state. Now edit the GLOWING ..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 10:43 pm (UTC)
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"Just a guess, but I'd think you could handle this with a True/False variable called something like "CourseDone". Initially this is set to..."
  • 4 years ago02/20/20 at 10:38 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Recap of essay questions and responses
"Or you can just add a textbox with a macro that calls the existing text variable content and shows it. So if the first text entry f..."
  • 4 years ago02/07/20 at 10:08 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Recap of essay questions and responses
"Every essay question has a text variable that stores the answer given. So you can design a slide at the end with text boxes on the slide,..."
  • 4 years ago02/07/20 at 10:07 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Add Variable Count One Time Only
"You have the variable misspelled on the first Feedback layer. ;)"
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 8:12 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Formulas for variables
"On your main slide, set the SLIDE OPTIONS to RESET TO INITIAL STATE when revisiting. This ensures that every time you come back to ..."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 7:00 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Next button will not enable on some slides
"For the SLIDE OPTIONS, do you have the slide setting to RESUME SAVED STATE when revisiting? This would give you the effect yo..."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 6:50 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Add Variable Count One Time Only
"Also, the Q1Done variable is only for the first slide. On the second slide you would use a new Q2Done variable. Be sure to set the ..."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 6:43 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Add Variable Count One Time Only
"The order of triggers is CRITICAL when you put several events to occur on a single click. Move the "Set Q1Done = True" to the bottom of t..."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 6:29 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Add Variable Count One Time Only
"Based on your description, my sugegstion would be an additional True/False trigger to limit how many time the +1 trigger can work. ..."
  • 4 years ago01/31/20 at 9:45 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion How do I increase screen size
"To adjust the size of your story, go to the DESIGN tab, Story Size. You can set the resolution by pixel size."
  • 4 years ago01/29/20 at 5:47 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Hosted Videos
"Our company uses WISTIA to host our video content. It has fabulous imbedding tools and we use it serve content surgically into..."
  • 4 years ago01/29/20 at 5:15 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Creating gif's
"We use TechSmith SnagIt for screen capture and making MP4 and GIFs. Best of all, it's not a subscription. https://www.techsmi..."
  • 4 years ago01/29/20 at 5:11 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Suggested feature: What do y'all think?
"I'd use that!"
  • 4 years ago01/29/20 at 12:51 am (UTC)
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"We use TechSmith Snagit, it's cheap, clean and the built in clip tools are great for first round tweaking even before you save the clip, ..."
  • 4 years ago01/29/20 at 12:49 am (UTC)
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"Whenever I create a REPLAY feature for my scenes, it's usually: A shorter slide, so REPLAY really does just replay the scene/video just ..."
  • 4 years ago01/28/20 at 9:42 pm (UTC)
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Jerry Beaucaire replied to the discussion Review with SME's
"Articulate comes with a REVIEW option. Any courses published to the REVIEW option go into a web site with feedback capability.&nbsp..."
  • over 4 years ago01/21/20 at 10:49 pm (UTC)