John Papiernik
John Papiernik
Senior Technical Training Coordinator at TTM Technologies
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"That would be the easiest way to do it. You can use the same variable, you just have to add a trigger on each slide to re-set the variabl..."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 12:35 pm (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Course progress using variables
"Can you change the state on a hot spot? I have never tried to do that."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 11:47 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Course progress using variables
"Variables can work in more than one scene, it just becomes more to keep track of. You can re-use the same variable over and over again by..."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 11:39 am (UTC)
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"Hope this helps"
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 10:37 am (UTC)
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"You can use variables to have the Next button cycle through all your layers before going onto the next slide. Create a number variable, a..."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 10:10 am (UTC)
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"I have built work arounds for issues like this. If you have any text or objects onthe same slides, create a new state for one of those ob..."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 10:05 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Course progress using variables
"It could be the order of your triggers on the slides. If they areĀ in the wrong order, some of them will never trigger."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 8:48 am (UTC)
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"I generally prefer to use triggers over auto timing. The use of auto timing takes away the self guided aspect of the training."
  • 11 years ago02/26/13 at 11:35 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Help with states and triggers
"You probably could use the same variable (in some cases). You would just have to set a trigger to reset the variable when the timeline st..."
  • 11 years ago02/13/13 at 5:50 am (UTC)
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"If you want something to move across the slide, use entrance and exit animations. I use it all the time to make the illusion of a person ..."
  • 11 years ago02/13/13 at 5:49 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Help with states and triggers
"It also depends on the order of your triggers. If they are in the wrong order, they will not work. Do you have any buttons on the screen ..."
  • 11 years ago02/12/13 at 9:41 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Storyline - Zoom region function
"Are you trying to zoom on the base slide, or on a layer? I believe it only works on the base slide."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 1:51 pm (UTC)
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"I would have to test it, but it sounds like you could use variables for each section. Have each variable increase for every right answer ..."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:42 pm (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Help With Triggers and States
"You can also use conditions. When they press each button, have the state of the button change to something else. The condition on your "n..."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:17 pm (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Aligning Ends of Items on Timeline
"You can change the size of your timeline scale. Try making it larger, this should make it easier to line up the endpoints."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:09 pm (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Wow! Storyline...
"We have been using it for a few months now, and we love it. You can make some pretty amazing things with the software."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:06 pm (UTC)
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"I just made my quiz by using add slides. Then I added a resulsts slide after each quiz. I did not use a question bank. I will try to use ..."
  • 11 years ago01/17/13 at 7:58 am (UTC)
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"Would it be possible to put all the questions in one quiz, and have the user only view the questions applicable to the scenes they covere..."
  • over 11 years ago01/17/13 at 6:27 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Storyline Layers
"If you click onthe little gear on each layer (right side), you can hide things fromt he base layer, and also from other layers."
  • over 11 years ago01/17/13 at 5:24 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Clicking Next to Advance Layers ?
"Dan, You should watch a couple of tutorials on variables and conditions. They are not really that bad once you get into them, and they op..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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"I made both results slides from scratch. The only thing the second one shares with the first, is tallying two of the quiz questions in th..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 12:34 pm (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Clicking Next to Advance Layers ?
"Dan, I left out one trigger in that picture. You will also need one that states as follows. "Jump to next slide when the user clicks the ..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 11:43 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Clicking Next to Advance Layers ?
"Try this... I created a variable that increases by one every time the next button is pressed. I then set triggers with conditions for eac..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 11:36 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik replied to the discussion Clicking Next to Advance Layers ?
"You might be able to accomplish this by using variables. Every time the user clicks the next button, you could have the variable advance ..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 11:19 am (UTC)
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John Papiernik started a new discussion Multiple quizes and results slides in the same presentation
"I have two quizes (both in their own scenes) that the users can progress through. I have a results slide for both quizes. The first one o..."
  • over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 9:54 am (UTC)