Michael Anderson
Consultant / Troubleshooter
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is it possible to replace a freeform shape with a picture?
"I'm sorry I can't share my project file. Yes, the problem is that the play triangle is empty space, so can't be clicked on. That's why I ..."
- over 4 years ago01/14/20 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is it possible to replace a freeform shape with a picture?
"Thanks Wendy, I'll give that a try. Part of the issue is that this shape is used many times throughout the course.
The shape is a "play" ..."
- over 4 years ago01/14/20 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"Wendy, I think you are misunderstanding the problem. Even if I visit ONLY the layer WITHOUT the trigger, and never visit the layer WITH t..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 10:57 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"I see, this explains it much better. I thought that the layer itself counted as an object, similar to how some triggers are attached to t..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 10:54 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"No, sorry, it has nothing to do with whether or not each layer is visited. The problem is that I have a trigger on one layer that is bein..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 10:24 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"No problem, thanks for getting back to me. Walt explained that the type of trigger I used "changing one variable value based on another v..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 10:05 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"If this is the case, then I really appreciate you pointing it out, although it seems like a bug to me. Why would a trigger on a layer run..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 9:56 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"But the trigger in question exists only on a layer, so shouldn't it run only when that layer is visible?"
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"No, the problem seems to be that a trigger on one layer is running when a different layer is being displayed. Here's the published output..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 8:51 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Is there something wrong with the logic in my triggers?
"Yes, but run the course and only click Layer 2, and then click the button there. Both variables still change when only the one should cha..."
- over 4 years ago01/13/20 at 8:37 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Problems with CC in youtube video as a web object
"I usually embed Vimeo videos within a web object so that I can interact with their API and get information such as when the video ends. H..."
- over 4 years ago01/09/20 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"You might consider resorting to bribery. I think that's the only way you'll get your feature implemented."
- over 4 years ago01/09/20 at 3:44 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Problems with CC in youtube video as a web object
"Theresa, it looks like the texttrack parameter is used for Vimeo videos. Check out this link https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/..."
- over 4 years ago01/06/20 at 4:32 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Course in full screen?
"I'm sorry for not replying sooner, but I didn't receive previous notifications to this thread. I'm not sure if something changed in IE or..."
- over 4 years ago01/06/20 at 4:20 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Root Folder Changed with HTML5 Output
"This could cause a lot of issues for those that have implemented custom solutions that force the html5 version to be viewed instead of th..."
- over 4 years ago12/19/19 at 4:00 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Linking from Twine web object to next slide in course
"Thanks Daniel. You too!"
- over 4 years ago12/17/19 at 7:45 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Linking from Twine web object to next slide in course
"Daniel, I think this has something to do with the way that your button code has the quotes changed to html codes, which seems to be manda..."
- over 4 years ago12/17/19 at 5:27 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Animate Text By Letter
"Eswarkumar, I hope that helped out."
- over 4 years ago12/12/19 at 4:16 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Embed a video without using an iframe tag - SL360
"Yes, here's a demo of that working with Vimeo in Storyline 2. http://andersonelearning.com/demo/Vimeo_Video_Status_SL2/story_html5.html
H..."
- over 4 years ago10/25/19 at 6:16 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Embedded Video Trigger & Javascript
"Yes, you could write some code to check the current playhead time of the Vimeo video, and set a Storyline variable at 30 seconds, which w..."
- over 4 years ago10/21/19 at 3:20 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Embedded Video Trigger & Javascript
"The Screencast player will have to have an API that can detect when the video is finished, then that information can be sent to Storyline..."
- almost 5 years ago07/03/19 at 8:12 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Video interlacing issue - lines in video in Storyline
"You might need to "de-interlace" the video before inserting it into Storyline. Your video editing software should have this function."
- almost 5 years ago06/27/19 at 3:59 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Storyline 2 Cannot Open Resource Player in a new browser
"The resource link is either opening in the same browser tab, a new tab, or a new browser window. Can you tell which? My test opened in a ..."
- almost 5 years ago06/26/19 at 6:42 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Storyline 2 Cannot Open Resource Player in a new browser
"Is the resource opening in a new browser tab currently?"
- almost 5 years ago06/26/19 at 5:29 pm (UTC)
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Michael Anderson replied to the discussion Storyline 2 Cannot Open Resource Player in a new browser
"Stanley, does this work correctly outside of the LMS? Can you share a sample slide of your project that has the resource link on it?"
- almost 5 years ago06/26/19 at 2:46 pm (UTC)