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 Storyline 2 - Slide Example
"Sounds like you already figured it out, Chadi! Just use an image (such as a semi-transparent .png of a magnifying glass) to fill the slid..."
  • over 9 years ago09/24/14 at 10:22 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Storyline 2 - Slide Example
"Nicely done, Gill! To go along with what Mike said, how about making the slider a magnifying glass and call it such (some may expect to ..."
  • over 9 years ago09/24/14 at 9:57 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Accessing Storyline Variables from Inserted SWF
"Hi Chris, James has an excellent walkthrough on his blog: https://elearningenhanced.com/blog/2012/05/24/setget-articulate-storyline-vari..."
  • over 9 years ago09/18/14 at 9:27 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Looking for inspiration: Report writing training
"Hi Jeff, Regarding the management summary aspect, this may be a little simplistic but perhaps on one slide you could list 8-10 brief sen..."
  • over 9 years ago09/12/14 at 8:45 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Subscripts and Superscripts in Notes
"Sorry to hear that, Shannon. I recommend opening a case with Support. You might want to prepare a single slide .story file exhibiting the..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 2:44 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"You can use Articulate's TempShare site to test the published output from a server as needed."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 1:35 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"Depending on your browser's security settings, it may block the JavaScript from running when run from your local drive. It should work wh..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 1:25 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"Hi Gina, What browser are you using? Do you have JavaScript enabled in that browser? Try this link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-st..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 1:15 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"OK, all set, here you go."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 12:53 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"OK, I see what you want to do. This will require three different text variables, no problem. I'll have this posted back to you in a few m..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 12:38 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"Hi Gina, A few things to check... 1. Are you using the variables I used? If not but you want to do so, be sure to open the variables wi..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 11:43 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion find & replace
"Hi Geert, I'm not sure this is possible within Storyline itself, but after you publish, you should be able to perform the find and repla..."
  • over 9 years ago08/28/14 at 6:32 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Adding commas/decimals into Variable Values
"Hi Gina, Yes, there are any number of ways to do this with JavaScript. Attached is just one solution. Basically, I'm passing a numeric v..."
  • over 9 years ago08/27/14 at 2:40 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Duplicate Numbers on Sequence D&D
"That's strange. If you remove the fill behind the interaction, the duplication of the numbers goes away. While not an ideal solution, you..."
  • over 9 years ago08/27/14 at 7:38 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Can Storyline Actually change the size of objects in real time?
"Hi Barry, Jerson posted some clever animation tricks awhile back that may meet your needs. Check out this thread."
  • over 9 years ago08/27/14 at 7:26 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Keeping drag items from covering one another.
"Hi Carlo, I sent you a detailed private message with a solution that should get you pretty close (too lengthy to describe in a reply here)."
  • over 9 years ago08/26/14 at 10:15 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Snapping to any target rather than specific target
"Actually, with the transparent rectangle in place, you should find that objects dragged outside a Drop Correct target will automatically ..."
  • over 9 years ago08/24/14 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Snapping to any target rather than specific target
"Carlo, create a rectangle that fills the slide and give it no border, fill it with white (or any color you like) and set the fill to be 1..."
  • over 9 years ago08/24/14 at 1:25 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Snapping to any target rather than specific target
"Hi Carlo, Since this isn't a graded activity with a correct/incorrect response, I recommend not setting this up as a traditional drag an..."
  • over 9 years ago08/24/14 at 11:32 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Reset multiple variables to default values
"Hi Jill, I understand what you're trying to do but off the top of my head, no, I don't know of a way to do this. My first thought was ..."
  • over 9 years ago08/22/14 at 1:54 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Marker label image size
"Mike, you can also drag the image left, right, up or down to move it to a different side or corner."
  • over 9 years ago08/20/14 at 10:18 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Arrays and variables through JS in storyline
"There are three calls you can make: GetPlayer, player.GetVar and player.SetVar. Here's a link to an Articulate support page on the subject."
  • over 9 years ago08/14/14 at 2:43 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Hiding Items in Storyline
"Just to clarify, Brandi... When I said click the eyeball, I wasn't referring to the eyeball next to each object, I was referring to the e..."
  • over 9 years ago08/13/14 at 4:02 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Hiding Items in Storyline
"Brandi, just click the little eyeball icon directly beneath the word "Timeline". That will hide everything. Click it again to show everyt..."
  • over 9 years ago08/13/14 at 3:35 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Arrays and variables through JS in storyline
"Hi William, This code works for me: var player = GetPlayer(); var codeArray=[62312,12636,54623,74624,12537,73754,46577,42467,13945,8956..."
  • over 9 years ago08/12/14 at 11:20 am (UTC)