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 Toggling visibility of objects on the same layer
"when not create a pause/play button insstead of using a layer, the triggers are all there then you can have your scroll panel on a layer,..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:40 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How do I print a result for a quiz that timed out?
"This is a known fault, it actually stops your project working at this point, hopefully a fix comes along soon"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:20 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Toggling visibility of objects on the same layer
"The scroll panel doesnt have states so cannot be hidden, you will probably have to put this on a layer, any reason why you cannot do this?"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:19 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How do I indicate which slide is next?
"The nxt slide is the slide below the slide you are on in the slide view.  You can drag and drop these slides to decide which the next one is"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:15 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Making questions in Storyline - quizmaker usefull?
"I never use Quizmaker now, all the functionality is in storyline and the import of quizmaker files is a pain because of the quizmaker sli..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:14 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Customize checkbox component!
"You probably need to build it yourself, using states"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:11 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can't reorder slides in Story View
"Hi Rochelle This is related to the order of the objects on your menu slide in the timeline, if you move the button that links to 1.5 abov..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 1:09 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Format painter
"LOL"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 12:57 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Format painter
"Format painter in ppt does not affect dimensions.  Also if you right click on the shape the format menu does not include dimensions these..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 12:55 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Validating Text Entry Boxes
"Hi Graham, you could check they have entered something by using a null state on  condition (just leave it blank). If you want proper vali..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 12:52 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Format painter
"I wouldnt expect format painter to carry across width and height, I think this is by design. A match dimensions button would be nice though"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 12:48 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Calling the guru's
"the index_lms calls the story.html file, the story.html file calls the ioslaunch.html"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:46 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion move scene or slides from one to another storyline files
"Just use the import from storyline feature, you can choose which slides you import"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:45 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Object not saving previous state
"Just checked it works great. Good idea, hope you dont mind me stealing that one"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:33 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Object not saving previous state
"Hi Jesse If you click the cog next to each layer, the top item is hide all other slide layers that should fix the problem I hope Phil"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:32 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Drag and Drop and States and Triggers, OH MY!
"It is possible to make objects appear, set them initially to hidden, and then use states and conditions. e.g. Paper 1 = hidden, has state..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Object not saving previous state
"Are your layers set to hide other layers? Can you post your file?"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:08 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline for instructor led classroom training
"I would agree with Steve's comments. I have produced content for interactive whiteboards using storyline and they work great, and the kid..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 9:03 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Jump to URL not working
"Cannot say I did anything"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 7:13 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Jump to URL not working
"One of the early slides has a big blue redirect to google button which works fine I didnt look for any other links. Did you start this in..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 6:40 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion PowerPoint installed at the right place?
"Powerpoint needs to be installed into windows to import from powerpoint, I noticed that Storyline actually opens ppt (not visibly) when i..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 6:37 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Jump to URL not working
"Andrew, it works fine for me (used your google button) must be a browser security issue"
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 6:31 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Showing a shape to remind visited zones
"Hi Cedric, there is a demo here that shows what you want.  It is better to use a custom state rather than visited becasue if the user cli..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/24/12 at 5:30 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Adding number variables question
"Rebecca, I have not been receiving emails all weekend either glad to know its not just me"
  • almost 12 years ago07/22/12 at 6:17 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Email results
"most modern browsers prevent thsi type of activity by default I think this is the reason articulate removed this functionailty from story..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/21/12 at 12:03 pm (UTC)