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"Chris, I really like your concept. I like it so much I want to see it work for you. Try this: On the slide add this trigger: add 1 to..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/02/15 at 6:10 pm (UTC)
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"Chris According to this link: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/bug-incrementing-numeric-var-when-text-..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/30/15 at 8:39 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Cropped sound comes back
""That's not a bug; it's a feature!"  :)  It actually makes sense. cropping doesn't remove material, it just covers it up. When you copy t..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/30/15 at 1:03 pm (UTC)
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"A quick guess is that the triggers "when variable changes" are the problem.  If the variables in question are changed on another slide, t..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 11:18 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion My project after Publishing
"no, and yes. No, you can't take the published version apart again and reconstitute it. Publishing is like baking a cake; once it is in t..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 10:30 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Multiple Disabled States?
"Try this"
  • almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 1:07 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Multiple Disabled States?
"Button with 2 disabled states"
  • almost 9 years ago06/25/15 at 11:17 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Multiple Disabled States?
"If I understand you correctly, you could do this with a condition in the trigger:  perform action if state is not "Custom disabled  state""
  • almost 9 years ago06/25/15 at 6:52 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Timeline setting
"Is there a way to change it to default to a different behavior??"
  • almost 9 years ago06/22/15 at 4:05 pm (UTC)
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"I know I for one like the freedom to go into the menu and change it. I like to add headings, and control the indentions. If the player we..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/08/15 at 3:20 pm (UTC)
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"Rather than set the slide to jump to slide #,  use jump to next.  In story view drag slide#18 to just below slide #6. A blue arrow will p..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/05/15 at 12:47 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Publish to Word 2013
"Are you checking in file explorer, or just looking through the open function in Word?  If the latter, change the file type to all Word fi..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/04/15 at 4:18 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Player Menu
"Rick Nusz Restricted navigation was my fist thought but I've also seen this behavior in my local environment after working in a file f..."
  • almost 9 years ago06/04/15 at 4:04 pm (UTC)
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"I've noticed that sometimes it can be really tricky on the iPad to find the sweet spot between scrolling the whole player and scrolling t..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/16/15 at 11:40 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Syncing video and slide timeline
"I'm glad that you recognize that this is a "should" situation.  Since the timing is correct if the slide is played uninterrupted from th..."
  • 9 years ago03/18/15 at 1:46 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Syncing video and slide timeline
" What happens is that when your user uses the seekbar to move ahead or back in a timeline, SL attempts to calculate where every item woul..."
  • 9 years ago03/18/15 at 1:26 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Video - Animation syncing
"Greg, One thing I have learned about timing things with videos: Open the video in a video editor. (Even Microsoft's free MovieMaker wor..."
  • 9 years ago03/18/15 at 1:22 pm (UTC)
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"I would, too."
  • 9 years ago03/06/15 at 2:05 pm (UTC)
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"Thanks, Micheal. That discussion contained a lot of what I was looking for."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 3:35 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Corrupt file. Anyway to recover it?
"Did you rename it when you copied it? You may have a lost autosave file making the system think it is in use, and a different name will s..."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 3:18 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton started a new discussion Pictures in States
"I want a picture (not a shape) with text on it in four states: original picture with original text, original picture with roll over text,..."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 3:15 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Corrupt file. Anyway to recover it?
"Catherine, You might try copying your file to another file. You also might shut your computer off completely and restart. Not to be a s..."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 3:03 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton started a new discussion Philosophical Question - More slides or more layers
"Say I have 50 options. Will I be happier if I put them all on one slide with 50 layers, or if I make 5 slides with 10 layers each, or 50 ..."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 2:51 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Video - Animation syncing
"Greg, I think you can do what you want. The thing to remember is that SL is not changing your timings. What happens is that when you try..."
  • 9 years ago02/10/15 at 4:17 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Video - Animation syncing
"This is a pretty well know problem.  The ONLY accurate method of playback is to preview the slide from the beginning. If you even move th..."
  • 9 years ago02/10/15 at 2:28 pm (UTC)