Phil Mayor
Phil Mayor Hero
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 Trouble with variables
"If you want to use a number variable, it often helps to assign a value instead of adding a value, selecting and deselecting is a common i..."
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 12:01 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Font sizes drop in Storyline randomly
"I never use Articulate font or Tahoma (the font any pasted text seems to come in at), never noticed font sizes changing. I can believe it..."
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 10:15 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Font sizes drop in Storyline randomly
"Thanks for understanding the rumblings of a crazy man"
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 10:09 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Font sizes drop in Storyline randomly
"I regularly use 15, and 13.5 (don't ask why).  fonts and text adding are an area that can be improved. I understand it is due to the text..."
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 10:08 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Invalid Answer message displaying on submit
"Doesn't sound like a bug, can you share a slide?  "
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 10:05 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion User's "Name" text entry missing when resumed where left off
"Or you are hitting the resume data limit of scorm"
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 9:58 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Font sizes drop in Storyline randomly
"The default value for text ices is to resze the text to fit us hat the issue?"
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 9:57 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can a trigger on one slide cause a change on another slide?
"You need touse a variable to store the data andthenuse a triggers the second slide witha condition based on the variable vavalue the trig..."
  • over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 9:54 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Emphasis and Motion Path Animations
"There are no emphasis or motion paths in storyline only limited entrance and exit animations as well as slide transitions"
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 12:42 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Buttons
"Thanks to you both, really not a god"
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 12:41 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Buttons
"Bruce is the master of ID.   I should use slide masters, if I truly planned a project at the start I would use slide masters, I just don'..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 12:40 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Don't want to embed images.
"No easy way, you could embed as web objects but it really is not flexible enough. Is space really that much of a premium, the images are ..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 9:27 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Toggling between states in Storyline
"here is a file, to show, I used a button but anything can be used with a selected state"
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 9:14 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Toggling between states in Storyline
"add a selected state and add your description in the selected state, this will toggle as much as you want"
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion HTML5 Questions
"You can install chrome frame plugin intoIE6, 7 and 8 this does according to microsoft increase the vulnerabilities of old browsers but it..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 9:09 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Buttons
"It is that slide, if you take a heading button from another slide and put it on there it does the same thing, I know I try to avoid using..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 6:13 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Buttons
"Just for  best practice as Jeanette say's you dont need a hover trigger, you also dont need a clicked trigger just use visited. I would a..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 5:54 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Buttons
"Hi Emily This is a bug, just for fun duplicate that button and put it somewhere else on your slide, now when you press one it disapears p..."
  • over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 5:50 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Create Hover state to zoom in and out
"You would need to do this with different slides as the zoom region cannot be triggered"
  • over 11 years ago01/03/13 at 12:04 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Advancing Slides
"The next button are player controls and not layer dependant although I think this would be a nice feature. I would normally put a shape o..."
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 9:21 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Is there still no way to make markers show automatically?
"Still no way Simon, it is amazing how markers are not consistent with other Storyline features almost like they were a last minute thought"
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion SL and Studio not treating SWF files the same
"SL uses AS3 and Studio AS2, you could insert them as web objects in Studio"
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 8:47 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion can you set a trigger to start a zoom region?
"Plus the file"
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 8:46 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion can you set a trigger to start a zoom region?
"No but it can be faked  http://www.elearninglaboratory.com/index.php/portfolio/coffee-demo"
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 8:43 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Seekbar / Timer query
"The best solution is to remove the seek bar and set it to restarted navigation.  As Studio 13 is nearing release I wouldn't expect any ex..."
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 8:31 am (UTC)