Tim Neill
Tim Neill
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Harold - don't hold your breath. I submitted a 'feature request' for this function several years ago. Nothing."
  • 6 years ago02/15/18 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"Well you could at least give us the choice - 'do you want to kill the running audio when you start a new one?' I use SL to produce staff ..."
  • over 6 years ago11/01/17 at 6:15 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"So a voiceover narration is still playing on layer 1, when the user clicks a button to go to layer 2 to play a different v/o but keep the..."
  • over 6 years ago11/01/17 at 4:11 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jump to position in Timeline
"Alex - 'Created a feature request - I note this has been requested over 5+ years ago.' Don't hold your breath - I gave up submitting 'fe..."
  • over 6 years ago11/01/17 at 10:21 am (UTC)
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"Interesting, thanks Dan. I have looked at a Totara spec document now for quiz building and can see it does offer a wide range of options ..."
  • over 6 years ago08/03/17 at 8:21 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill started a new discussion Totara Content creation versus Storyline 2
"I have a client who is considering using Totara's LMS (i.e: Moodle+) to launch SL2 modules (which is fine) but also to create some of the..."
  • over 6 years ago08/02/17 at 10:26 am (UTC)
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"Michael - what SL needs is a simple set of Functions, ready-made commands with which we can control program operation without having to p..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:33 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Thank you Owen. I have had to do this quite a lot in the past as a workaround but it is less than ideal. I have used both an 'auto run-th..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:16 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Thanks Leslie. This is what I have had to do, although it was an unnecessary extra fiddle if there had been a 'rounding ON/OFF check box'..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:11 am (UTC)
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"Why is it that - over 3 years on - Storyline is still incapable of rounding a Quiz score to a whole number? Javascript is..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/18/17 at 2:59 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Why is it that - over 3 years on - Storyline is still incapable of rounding a Quiz  score to a whole number? Javascript is not the answe..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/18/17 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Tish - well, another way (without adding layers) would be to add a trigger on the base layer to each icon which plays the specified audio..."
  • 7 years ago02/24/17 at 5:33 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Tish - one way would be to put each audio on its own layer and then add a trigger on each icon which shows the respective layer (i.e.: pl..."
  • 7 years ago02/24/17 at 5:20 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Image Zoom Interaction Story File
"I have also used two sliders (connected by their slider variables) to pan a wide image and then click a region to zoom in to that region ..."
  • 7 years ago01/05/17 at 9:58 am (UTC)
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"Thank you Dave, I appreciate this.  "
  • 7 years ago12/30/16 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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"Thanks Phil. Are there JS code examples to view?"
  • 7 years ago12/30/16 at 1:54 pm (UTC)
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"This issue has been discussed for years on this forum and still Storyline stops us from saving a custom score variable to an LMS. Various..."
  • 7 years ago12/30/16 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Tried Storyline360?
"I completely agree with Mary. This new 360 offering carries little appeal for teams already using Storyline 2 for serious eLearning produ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 9:20 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Thanks Kirsti - in SL2 there's always at least three different ways to skin a cat! Off-screen buttons is approach I haven't used and I'm ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 8:29 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Is there going to be an SL3 Leslie?"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 5:10 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"You are very welcome Adam. The lack of this feature has been bugging me for ages!"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 4:34 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Adam - I downloaded it in Safari and it arrives as a single .story file.  Using IE it asked me how I wanted to save it (it thinks it's a..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 4:17 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"That's odd. I just downloaded it and it opens fine in SL2. There is only one file.   Adam - did you attend the Storyline workshop last ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 3:20 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Hi Adam, There is a way of getting around Storyline's restrictive quiz scoring but it's rather complex to implement. But it does work! I..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 2:58 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Maybe they don't trust us to meddle with their precious variables!"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 10:57 am (UTC)