John Blum
John Blum
Instructional Designer
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John Blum replied to the discussion How to delay Try Again layer
"Appreciate your efforts, Walt, but I referring to try mode slides, not quiz slides. Plus, your way uses 3 triggers; mine uses one.  Why w..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/23/16 at 3:29 pm (UTC)
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John Blum replied to the discussion How to delay Try Again layer
"Walt, Thanks for responding. Whether the try again text box and button are covered or not, it doesn't change the fact that the try agai..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/22/16 at 10:06 pm (UTC)
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"I created a trigger on the hotspot to jump to the next slide when user clicks, an it works, but I can't copy and paste that trigger to th..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/22/16 at 4:43 pm (UTC)
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"We just got Storyline in a company that has been a Captivate shop.  Often we have try mode slides that have explanatory text and graphics..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/22/16 at 3:10 am (UTC)
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John Blum replied to the discussion Font color in numbered lists
"Thanks Wendy. Your technique worked.  But the question remains, why did the font color of the numbers remain black when the rest of the t..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/20/16 at 9:51 pm (UTC)
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"We have similar situations in our try mode simulations, such as pressing the  delete key.  How can we get the Try Again layer to appear a..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 8:37 pm (UTC)
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"I've tried several times, and get things like:  IO error. Error #2038"
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 6:51 pm (UTC)
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"I cannot upload the .story file. Tried to upload it as a .story file, and then as a .zip file.  Neither way works."
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 6:48 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Leslie, How can I send the .story file to you without posting it? Thank you, John"
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 6:07 pm (UTC)
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"Here's a screen shot of the Try Again feedback without the gray box.   Thanks for tips and the tutorials reference."
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 5:53 pm (UTC)
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"It would be better to use the feedback master for this.  I looked at it, but didn't see a slide that has only the feedback text  without ..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 4:10 pm (UTC)
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"I found that I could just copy the Try Again layer with the gray text box onto a slide that just had the Try Again layer with just the te..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/18/16 at 3:56 pm (UTC)
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"Thanks, Mark. For now, if we want to use multiple slide layers, we'll just avoid putting anything on a layer in the area of the button. ..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/13/16 at 9:26 pm (UTC)
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"I made a copy of one of the slides. I added a layer to that slide and put a rectangle on that layer. The buttons are hidden where the rec..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/13/16 at 8:07 pm (UTC)
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"This technique works great on slides with only the Base layer.  Any suggestions on how to get it to work on slides with multiple layers?"
  • almost 8 years ago05/13/16 at 7:12 pm (UTC)
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"You're welcome, Chris. Being that closed captions and predefined variables have been need and requested by many, I hope they will be in ..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/12/16 at 4:36 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Chris,Thank you.  I already readthat post.  The techniques presentedwork, but they do not work on try-mode slides. I’ve come up with t..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/12/16 at 4:29 pm (UTC)
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"Thank you, Ashley. I hope the product team will address these common requests in Storyline 3.  Having scene-level triggers and project-l..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/12/16 at 2:33 pm (UTC)
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"Ashley, being that slide numbers are such a common request, will they be included in Storyline 3, and will other predefined variables be ..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/11/16 at 8:54 pm (UTC)
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"Thank you, Bob. This is close, but like I had experienced before, the Toggle CC does not appear on try-mode slides. Any suggestions?"
  • almost 8 years ago05/11/16 at 8:15 pm (UTC)
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"Thank you, Leslie.  Any chance custom player buttons will be a new feature in Storyline 3?"
  • almost 8 years ago05/10/16 at 6:36 pm (UTC)
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"I was able to modify the Submit button to perform like the CC button in the slide master.  The caveat is needing to change the CC button ..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/10/16 at 6:04 pm (UTC)
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John Blum replied to the discussion Image as An Button
"Thank you, Wendy!"
  • almost 8 years ago05/05/16 at 3:25 am (UTC)
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John Blum replied to the discussion Image as An Button
"I have a custom button image I designed in PowerPoint.  I created 5 versions of the button image, one for each Storyline button state.  I..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/04/16 at 10:49 pm (UTC)
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John Blum replied to the discussion Changing the name of a screencast
"Yes, you are correct with what the arrow is pointing to. However, after I type in the new name and press Enter, it reverts back to Scree..."
  • over 9 years ago08/21/14 at 9:39 am (UTC)