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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Extracting a story file from a zip file
"If the file was zipped by publishing it, you can't. Sorry. If it had its extension changed from .story to .zip, you can rename it and cha..."
  • 1 day ago04/23/24 at 8:09 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Convert storyline to powerpoint
"If you have to do this on a regular basis, create in Ppt, because SL can import Ppt, but Ppt cannot import SL. (MS arrogance, no doubt)"
  • 2 days ago04/22/24 at 6:03 pm (UTC)
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"You say when a box is clicked twice in a row. What if a learner clicks four boxes, and then wants to go back and unclick box two? Do you ..."
  • 2 days ago04/22/24 at 5:36 pm (UTC)
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"Other than saying there appears to be nothing wrong with your trigger, there are so many reasons why that may not work. It would be impos..."
  • 6 days ago04/19/24 at 2:04 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Trigger Animations by Paragraph
"Maybe I can clarify just a bit. What Evan refers to can be seen only with a text box and only if you set an animation on it, and on..."
  • 6 days ago04/18/24 at 7:07 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Articulate Storyline version history
"Of course, unintended changes (of which there are a multitude) are not documented, and some of those are positive, but many are not."
  • 6 days ago04/18/24 at 2:24 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Mutiple triggers working simultaneously
"Not unless there is a way the audio can finish before the boxes are checked. If the boxes must be checked first, use this: Jump to slide ..."
  • 6 days ago04/18/24 at 1:24 pm (UTC)
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"Here's something I put together a while back. It may give you some ideas. There are two different approaches. The second one shuffles the..."
  • 7 days ago04/18/24 at 3:32 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion How to tell slide type?
"If it was built using the freeform quiz feature, above the pane on the right hand side, it will have two tabs, Form View and Slide ..."
  • 9 days ago04/16/24 at 12:05 am (UTC)
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"You can publish by the slide or scene, which are both useful. Exporting by slide or scene is the same thing as importing by those options..."
  • 9 days ago04/15/24 at 8:48 pm (UTC)
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"Sin ver el archivo .story es dificil dar aviso. En general, necicita algun manera de recordar cuantas veces se ha fallado. Despues del te..."
  • 9 days ago04/15/24 at 2:07 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Edit or Import from SCORM
"You really need the .story file to make changes. There is not other effective way to change it. As a matter of good practice, you should ..."
  • 10 days ago04/15/24 at 2:34 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Course Resuming
"Jurgen, Does that make a difference?"
  • 11 days ago04/13/24 at 10:24 pm (UTC)
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"No, but you can open a new project, and import just one slide, then share that .story file."
  • 12 days ago04/13/24 at 1:56 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Word Search Help!
"On the hint layer, I changed the 6 triggers that follow the "Hide layer" trigger. It will work if there is an "Add 1 to randomnumber" for..."
  • 14 days ago04/11/24 at 3:41 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion unknown error in spanish language course
"The Console is always full of error messages. What would be really helpful to know is: 1. When you try it in SCORM cloud, what happens? D..."
  • 14 days ago04/10/24 at 2:09 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Drag and Drop Target Evaluation
"In dropping the object on two targets, you allow it to choose. If you were the object, which one would you choose? Seriously, when caught..."
  • 15 days ago04/09/24 at 10:31 pm (UTC)
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"You know what they say when you are looking for efficiency, “Choose your laziest man to do a task the first time, then make everybody els..."
  • 15 days ago04/09/24 at 7:59 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Random sequence
"There is a sample that may help you at this discussion: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/free-sample-res..."
  • 15 days ago04/09/24 at 7:49 pm (UTC)
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"Not likely. There are a number of ways to interpret your question, but they all fail, because the selected state will intercept any click..."
  • 16 days ago04/09/24 at 12:05 am (UTC)
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"You need two triggers: 1. Begin animation when button is clicked Show layer when animation completes"
  • 16 days ago04/09/24 at 12:04 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Word Search Help!
"I’m not sure about this trigger. I think it only works if the learner has already found one end or the other of a word. I picture a hint ..."
  • 16 days ago04/08/24 at 6:24 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion How do I compile a list of selected items?
"There is a sample that might get you started at this discussion https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/sorting..."
  • 16 days ago04/08/24 at 6:09 pm (UTC)
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"This discussion has a sample that will get you started: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/free-sam..."
  • 16 days ago04/08/24 at 6:02 pm (UTC)
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"I second Sam's request. Are you offering converters that convert something I might want to convert? Or is this a tutorial on how to get C..."
  • 17 days ago04/08/24 at 2:21 am (UTC)