Tim Shelton
Tim Shelton
Senior Designer at Mind Click LTD
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    Tim Shelton

    As of 2012 full time Storyline developer/builder creating completely custom courses for FTSE 100 companies. I am also a fully qualified Graphic Designer and so all my courses are branded to the client and feature completely bespoke graphics, interactions, videos and games. My portfolio: htt...
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Hebrew fonts
"That is likely to do with the renderer of the font. Below 10 in most software is ok but in storyline sometimes super small text is prone..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/28/15 at 8:37 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Nuance PDF - Crashing Internet Explorer
"Online there appears to be issues loading PDFs in Windows 8 with IE10 or 11. It could be that or that Nuance is incompatible with your br..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 10:26 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion How can I skip certain questions in a quiz if an incorrect answer is given
"This would have to be built as custom logic not using any of the standard MChoice/results tracking. It should be relatively easy to set u..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 10:18 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion JavaScript Guru Question
"I believe if you dive into the backend all elements on screen and page numbers can be dug out by their unique identifiers. As to how I ca..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 10:11 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Swapping the default character set
"For the price additional photographic characters costs pal you'd be better off getting a Shutterstock subscription for 25 images a day an..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 10:08 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Random Shuffle of Slides and/or Layers?
"I would say this is possible in Javascript if you can find a Code wizard to write the function for you. In Storyline only... you could h..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 10:04 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Embed all videos as web objects because of LMS SCORM size and bandwidth limitations?
"I have done this on a bunch of courses now it is relatively straight forward you simply add the embed code to a web object (it can take a..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:55 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Subtitles and Embeded Video
"The only way I know of doing this is to either: create the video yourselves and manually add in the captions in a video editing software ..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:47 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Using Storyline 2 with Skillport
"I am not familiar with this LMS, however Storyline functions as a SCORM for use in LMSs. This launches a player in a new window to run th..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:44 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Restart slide timeline
"There arent any trigger to do such an interaction globally the closest is reset results. You would have to code it on each page as a set ..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:41 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Nuance PDF - Crashing Internet Explorer
"The best setup would be Acrobat and Chrome. Both far more robust tried and tested. It could be the way Storyline is trying to get to the..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:38 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Trouble with demonstration videos in Articulate Storyline
"More details needed: browser & version, video format, flash installed? How is the slide displaying said video, web object; imported v..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 9:34 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Working with Text and Numeric Variables
"SO you type in a value into a text entry between 50-60. This sets 'variableX' to a value. Then in another text entry you enter TS/AS. Th..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/27/15 at 8:07 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Navigation through a module
"Sure use the when timeline ends function on a trigger and set the trigger to jump to next slide. Jump to next slide on timeline end"
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 10:02 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Movie Transparent Alpha Channel
"Depending on the content of said video you could build it in storyline and have it play on the timeline if it is a series of text and ima..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 9:16 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Movie Transparent Alpha Channel
"I know this might sound stupid but why dont you add your background into the video file. Video rendering software uses Alpha for importin..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 8:45 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Limit executions of relative motion path animation
"I dont know how you have set up your file, so I cannot speak specifically for your case. However if I were to attempt something like this..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 8:14 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Retry quiz - can't select answers for options
"Hi Adrienne, You'll be glad to know I think it is simply your variables in the wrong order on the Reset Results button. You want to rese..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 7:59 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion maximum video resolution of imported video?
"Whatever you want it to be you can set the story size as big/small as is necessary. Obviously the problem really becomes file size and ho..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/26/15 at 7:38 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Two triggers on 1 button to change state of variable
"I think its because it can do the initial change but then the triggers get confused as if its doing a permanent loop on each click."
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 5:49 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Using sliders to change a bar chart
"NP :)"
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 5:47 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Two triggers on 1 button to change state of variable
"So this is difficult to do on a single object without actioning JS each time its clicked. A simple way is to have 2 buttons that are iden..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 5:06 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion [need advice] Storyline Stopped working.. cant open storyline
"Have you tried uninstalling all trace elements of the program and reinstalling, do you match the system requirements, have you tried a sy..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 3:14 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Customizing the player template
"It is simple functionality in storyline. Create a master slide with an icon on screen which reveals a layer hosting a custom menu built b..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 3:02 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Using "Shift + Click" or "Ctrl + Click" in Triggers
"No, I dont think you can get this kind of function to work. CTRL or SHIFT clicking uses 2 functions and storyline doesnt track clicking a..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/25/15 at 2:57 pm (UTC)