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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline to PowerPopint
"Publish it to Web or CD, and you can share it. They will not be able to make changes, but they can see it, and all the interactions will ..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/14/15 at 1:24 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Advanced variables issue
"Meg, You started well, but you need to set the variables to "True", rather than to another variable, and each path needs its own variabl..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/13/15 at 11:00 pm (UTC)
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"Glad to help"
  • almost 9 years ago07/13/15 at 5:05 pm (UTC)
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"Carrie, I'm not sure SL will jump to Scene Titles. I think it regards them as menu headings. You can type in menu headings that are not ..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/13/15 at 3:00 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Update variable while dragging an object
"I'm interested in seeing if you can get this to work."
  • almost 9 years ago07/06/15 at 7:07 pm (UTC)
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"Richard, You are right, SL under performs. This is one of the evidences that it is not yet mature technology. Here is my work around. I..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/06/15 at 1:55 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Alignment: Slide View vs. Preview Mode
"My first guess is that the editing page is a different zoom percentage than the preview. I don't think any program can keep the alignmen..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/02/15 at 8:35 pm (UTC)
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"I experimented once with doing something like this. I set up a freeform drag and drop slide with no submit button, and deleted the feed ..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/02/15 at 8:02 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Slide triggers - deleting them
"You said: "And hope the "save" and zip file then translate to Saba this time. Thanks again." How are you zipping? That may make a differ..."
  • almost 9 years ago07/02/15 at 7:35 pm (UTC)
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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..."
  • 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)