Phil Mayor
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Creative Director at Elearning Laboratory
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    Phil Mayor Hero

    I am the creative director of the Elearning Laboratory Currently fascinated by the use of micro interactions and micro learning in elearning. "We will not navigate through the complex environment of the future by peering relentlessly into a rear view mirror" When I am not working, ...
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Display system Time
"There is no way to pull the system time without using javascript"
  • 11 years ago03/22/13 at 3:39 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Display system Time
"You cannot without javascript"
  • 11 years ago03/22/13 at 2:01 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animate objects with states
"Select the object in your state, cut and paste the object (sound stupid I know0 then add your animation"
  • 11 years ago03/22/13 at 1:50 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animate objects with states
"If you cut and paste within the state you can add exit animations"
  • 11 years ago03/22/13 at 12:06 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How to make the box of Matching Drag and Drop Question bigger?
"You cannot, you could build something similar using a freeform drag and drop"
  • 11 years ago03/21/13 at 1:59 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion 1 Second Layer Delay
"Hi Stephanie, do you have a transition  on the layer, I normally find that causea delay especially if you have a animation on the object ..."
  • 11 years ago03/21/13 at 2:58 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Translucent Buttons
"You need to use a gradient then, look at the photoshop tutorials to get the exact trasparency/colour/percentage and build your buttons, y..."
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 9:58 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Getting LMS Vaules Into Storyline Variables
"ONe of the Demos has a javascript trigger to pull the users name from the LMS, I cannot remember which one but it is definitely in there"
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Translucent Buttons
"right click format set the transparency"
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 8:53 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion HELP!
"Do a control alt delete, open task manager, go to processes and start to shut down processes you don't need like itunes helper, adobe pdf..."
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 8:52 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Audio auto-play
"the is dependant on how you insert the audio, if you insert it onto a slide then it will auto play.  To have control of the audio you mus..."
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 8:40 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Resume Feature
"Quizmaker does not allow for forced resume at the moment, Storyline does.  Is there anyway to lock the after one attempt in your LMS?"
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 8:33 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion E-Learning Help & Advice Please
"I would agree with Judith, I work solely in Storyline now, I am also not a paid spokeperson for articulate  Download the demo give it a go"
  • 11 years ago03/20/13 at 8:29 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Support for older browsers?
"version 9 is a huge security risk for organisations. and is nearly 5 years old.  I cannot think of a compelling reason not to upgrade"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 12:32 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Zoom in to a specifc component within a screen shot.
"The zoom region will zoom the entire screen, if you want to magnify a portion of the screen then you will need to animate this in yoursel..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 12:28 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How to make a quotation interesting
"Yes maybe it should have been tomatoes"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 10:44 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How to make a quotation interesting
"I will throw a cake I have just finished a course where we used comic book style, each slide was one pane.  The feedback we got was amaz..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 10:39 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Trigger that can do mulitple calculations
"actually you can do it in 30, sorry"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:27 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Trigger that can do mulitple calculations
"Yes, I think you probably need more than 30 because you would want to add them up in another variable so 36 triggers"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:27 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Trigger that can do mulitple calculations
"no (I suppose a javascript trigger would count as one though), any reason why you cannot use more than one trigger?"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 6:12 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline on iPhone
"Oliver Green said: OK some more input on this. We did some additional testing on the iPhone 5 and it appears that the issue was affecting..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 6:10 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion One Story on different computers
"I would check the dpi setting on the different machines, also check you have the same fonts installed"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 3:45 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Cost estimating when using outside developers
"Hi Bill Based on a project that I have recently done that was 120 pages of font size 12, if you do a full conversion of all the content y..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 1:07 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Duplicated Media Assets
"As I understand the library if you import an object then copy and paste or duplicate it is a copy of the object not a new object.Wheras i..."
  • 11 years ago03/18/13 at 12:33 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Clearing Text Entry Boxes
"Is the slide set to reset to the initial state?"
  • 11 years ago03/18/13 at 12:30 pm (UTC)