Steve Gannon
Steve Gannon
Principal Consultant at GanTek Multimedia
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    Steve Gannon

    I have been developing eLearning applications since 1994. For a long time I used Authorware and have since used Articulate products (Studio and Storyline) extensively. Training topics and clients are extremely varied -- corporate, academic, non-profit and government. I teach on-site Articulate...
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Base layer not showing
"Angie, somewhere along the way, a solid fill was applied to the slide layer background. Try this: 1. Open the layer. 2. Right-click anywh..."
  • 2 days ago04/13/24 at 6:53 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion SCORM Tracking
"SCORM Dispatch (https://rusticisoftware.com/products/scorm-cloud/dispatch/) is one such tool. There may be others."
  • 24 days ago03/23/24 at 3:57 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Using variables to generate organized lists
"Hi Brent, The first slide won't work properly if the user selects a checkbox and then unselects, or clicks a checkbox multiple times, bec..."
  • 1 month ago03/12/24 at 5:43 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Un-Dial
"Be aware that dials and sliders are keyboard accessible. Even if you block them from being clicked on by overlaying them with a transpare..."
  • 1 month ago03/12/24 at 12:04 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion PDF Publishable Certification Checklist
"Hi Yvonne, You should not need an 'else' statement in this case. Be sure you have these two lines in your JavaScript: const Box2a = form...."
  • 1 month ago03/04/24 at 7:48 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Dial Problem
"Hi Mohammad, As Nathanial notes, unlike some other programs (such as PowerPoint), in Storyline a bounded shape like a circle or square bl..."
  • 2 months ago02/24/24 at 7:28 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Buttons to insert value in numerical input field cause console error... Uncaught TypeError: r.value is not a function
"Attached is a bit of a hack (which, I agree, shouldn't be necessary). When a button is clicked, a layer is activated. The layer runs a li..."
  • 2 months ago02/23/24 at 5:34 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Buttons to insert value in numerical input field cause console error... Uncaught TypeError: r.value is not a function
"Your other thread suggests this graded question slide will ultimately be reported to the LMS via a Results slide. If that's not the case,..."
  • 2 months ago02/23/24 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Buttons to insert value in numerical input field cause console error... Uncaught TypeError: r.value is not a function
"It appears you need to interact with the graded question field in order for Storyline to handle this. if you click one of the buttons wit..."
  • 2 months ago02/23/24 at 3:08 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Buttons to insert value in numerical input field cause console error... Uncaught TypeError: r.value is not a function
"You're using a numeric graded question format but allowing the user to bypass submitting the entry via the custom Next button on the slid..."
  • 2 months ago02/23/24 at 2:45 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Scroll Into View JavaScript Trigger Not Working
"At first glance, Ray, this should be working. I'm going to study it a bit more in the morning and I'll let you know if I uncover the culp..."
  • 2 months ago02/22/24 at 10:59 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Scroll Into View JavaScript Trigger Not Working
"Hey Ray, If you can upload the latest version of the .story file, I'll dig into it to see what I can discover. You're absolutely certain ..."
  • 2 months ago02/22/24 at 7:36 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Scroll Into View JavaScript Trigger Not Working
"You can try copying/pasting the code below: var zoneone = document.querySelectorAll('[data-acc-text="modone"]'); zoneone[0].scrollIntoVie..."
  • 2 months ago02/22/24 at 4:21 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Scroll Into View JavaScript Trigger Not Working
"Not sure if it's just a formatting issue here in the forum but it appears you have a tilde (~) before "modone" and the initial quotation ..."
  • 2 months ago02/22/24 at 3:05 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Blurring backgrounds on Trigger or Button click
"Alan, is the attached what you're looking for? (I only did the first slide.) Storyline doesn't allow us to apply an animation to an objec..."
  • 2 months ago02/17/24 at 5:38 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Move Object Along Winding Road
"Select your motion path, then select Path Options and choose "Orient Shape to Path.""
  • 2 months ago02/13/24 at 7:39 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Assign multi-line text value to variable
"Tim, before pasting the text into the variable, insert <br> where you want a line break to occur. If you want a blank line, you wou..."
  • 2 months ago02/02/24 at 12:53 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion PDF Publishable Certification Checklist
"Hi Rachel, Each radio button set is assigned a unique variable (e.g., "RB01_3" refers to the radio buttons for the third statement in ski..."
  • 3 months ago01/23/24 at 1:58 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion PDF Publishable Certification Checklist
"Ideally, you would do this using a survey tool, or your LMS may already have this capability. But if you want to do it within Storyline, ..."
  • 3 months ago01/19/24 at 10:43 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How can I show/hide a video while keeping it synced to the timeline?
"I agree with Elizabeth that having the ASL video on the base layer might be the easier way to go. In the sample attached, I instead used ..."
  • 3 months ago01/19/24 at 5:20 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Ideas for adding ASL (sign language) to a course
"Hi Seth, I just tried this and it seemed to work just fine: 1. Draw a 99% transparent rectangle over the video and group the rectangle an..."
  • 3 months ago01/18/24 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Lines Go "Crooked" When Moved by Keyboard Arrows
"Thomas, this bug has been around for quite some time. One of the more recent forum threads: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/..."
  • 3 months ago01/10/24 at 4:05 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Shape disappearing for no reason
"Stephen, I'm assuming you're referring to one of the objects in the "Tag-transactions" group. That group and some objects within it were ..."
  • 4 months ago12/08/23 at 5:32 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Issues using JavaScript to send Quiz Results to PHP script
"You won't be able to pull an internal Storyline variable into JavaScript. Instead, create a custom variable and assign it the value of Qu..."
  • 4 months ago12/07/23 at 12:52 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Anchor Points in a Scrolling Panel
"Alan, the solution in this thread may help: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/javascript-scrollintoview-n..."
  • 5 months ago12/01/23 at 6:33 pm (UTC)