Storyline's 100th Release
Articulate hit an important milestone recently that we wanted to share with youâwe've hit our 100th month of Storyline releases đ That means that for 100 months running, weâve shipped updates to our products, from small UI enhancements and bug fixes to big, net-new features like text-to-speech and 360 degree images. (You can check out our entire release history, including the features in our 100th release, here). This community is an absolutely crucial part of how we got here, and we wanted to celebrate with you. Our team put together this video we wanted to share celebrating this shared achievement: Youâve generously shared your kind words about Articulate, and how it supports your work in the E-Learning industry, for us to include in this video. But, we wanted to make sure to also tell you how much we love you. Hereâs what our product team had to say about how working with this community supported these releases: "It has been a true pleasure collaborating with our customers through the private beta program over the past seven years. I am continually impressed by the innovative ways they leverage Storyline! Assisting them in overcoming project challenges has significantly enhanced my own understanding of the product, and I am thankful for the opportunity to partner with them in improving our features for all users. I would especially like to acknowledgeââ AndreasNeubergâ, PhilMayorâ, GaryBaldock1â, TracyParishâ, and many others for their active participation in our Beta program." - Vanessa Fage, Staff QA Engineer & Quality Lead âFor years, our customers have been instrumental in shaping accessibility, from helping refine the Accessible Player to influencing new features like the Accessibility Checker in Storyline 360. Through user research, early access testing, beta testing, and feedback, you've helped ensure a smoother experience for creating accessible content. A heartfelt thank you to all our customers who shared their insights, with special recognition to DianeElkinsâ, MelanieSobie-14â, DonnaWestwoodâ, MartinBrown-1abâ, RayeShilenâ, LoicBENARDâ, MadalinaMano183â, AndreasNeubergâ, and many others!â - Ronnie Pilman, CPACC, Senior QA Engineer II & Accessibility Lead âRecently weâve been inviting customers to get early access to new features, and itâs been incredibly valuable to hear your feedback earlier and more often throughout the development process. Your input has directly shaped how these features look and function, helping us build features that truly meet your needs. A big thank you to all who participatedâespecially GregoryFauchillâ, jeff-battâ, MathNotermans-9â, PhilMayorâ, rachelatkaiserâ, and HarriSâ for their active participation & feedback on the new JavaScript API & corner radius feature.â - Annie Kim, Storyline Product Manager Is there a time when you remember participating with us to improve Storyline? Did you take part in a beta program, suggest a feature that got turned into a real part of our product, or take part in a user interview? Let us know in the comments. Psstâwe know we've come a long way, and we still have a long way to go! We wanted to share that this year, we're investing in making our product feedback cycles in this community even better. Look out for improvements to our product ideation boards and beta programs in the coming quarters.Advanced Storyline? Creative Way to Use Button Sets w/ Quizzes
Discover how advanced Articulate Storyline skills arenât limited to complex variables or JavaScript. In this tutorial, you'll learn a clever technique using button sets in Articualte Storyline 360 to create multiple quiz questions on a single slide.Fixing Slide Positions For Drag Interactivity On Mobile Using JavaScript
Hey Heroes, Iâve recently been working on a number of client projects that really put the new JavaScript API in Storyline to good use! One challenge I had to overcome was how Storyline behaves on mobile devices. By default, it seems to add a slide-drifting transition when users swipeâgreat if you're building swipe navigation between slides, but not so helpful when users are meant to interact with objects on the slide itself. For example, trying to drag an object can instead cause the whole slide to shift, which can lead to some confusion and frustration. For this weekâs challenge, Iâve put together a demo that showcases the solution I developed to disable this behaviour when needed. You can try out the project here: LINK Copy the JavaScript code snippet for your own projects: LINK I also recorded this video for YouTube showing the results:
JavaScript for Keystrokes
I ventured boldly into JavaScript after DavidAndersonâ challenged us in this week's webinar. I did it, but only with the help of a couple of eLearning Heroes, and some AI assistance with the coding. Here's the published file The Problem I'm developing technical training for a mainframe system and wanted the users to practice actually using the keystrokes to practice the tasks they need to be able to use. In this system, TAB is required to move from field to field, but in Storyline, TAB activates the accessibility features, which I had to override. The Solution I used JavaScript to get around that at the slide level. Thanks to NickBaca-9980a0â who helped figure that out in this discussion. I also wanted the learners to be able to leverage a hint as they were learning, which required layers to be activated by clicking a question button. I never got the hint button to work right to trigger the layers using states, so I created multiple buttons that show and hide, one for each layer. Heroes Discussion In the final review section of the course, I reused the same activity. I didn't want the learners to have the hint option, but I wanted it to show what the correct answer was if they clicked the wrong key. The challenge here was creating a trigger that would go from any key except the correct answer. I reached out again to the forum and was able to figure this out and troubleshoot when it turned out to be buggy with the help of Nathan_Hilliardâ. Here's the details of that conversation. Lessons Learned JavaScript is powerful to extend the capabilities of Storyline. AI tools like CoPilot, and ChatGPT will create code for you if you ask what you want it to do correctly. Troubleshooting requires an experienced skillset. You need to pay attention to the details, like capital letters in the code, and to ensure you have all of the triggers to fire in the slide. The eLearning Heroes forum is invaluable when you get stuck on this.#506 - Pan and Zoom for Portrait Images
The Challenge I recently built a Storyline course where I needed to display large portrait images, screenshots of emails we send to our customers. Since emails are typically scrollable documents, the screenshots ended up being quite long. The built-in zoom feature for images is limited to the courses boundaries, so with such long screenshots, zooming barely makes a difference. JavaScript API to the rescue This is where the new JavaScript API came to the rescue! I used the new API to create a pan and zoom interaction. You can view the tutorial and solution here. Copy the final JavaScript snippet for your projects here. Would love to set this up to grab the ID of the picture programmatically so we don't have to set this up on a trigger by trigger basis if any one has any ideas! đ
