Hey everyone, I’m looking for some help with Storyline 360. I can’t access the Articulate user forums since I’m not a paying member, but I hope someone here can assist. I mostly do software simulations with narration, closed captions, buttons that change slides when clicked, and some full-motion video. I also use objects like hollow blocks and circles to draw focus to different buttons. I know the mouse click animation won’t run on anything but the base layer. Are there any other functions that absolutely must be on the base layer?
Not that I’m aware of, but I’d say it’s kind of like the difference between monolithic code and functional code. It’s definitely easier to QA sections when everything is broken up into slides. I usually think of it like how movies and plays are structured.
I’m not sure of anything else either, but there might be ways around some of those limitations. You could trigger a second layer that’s empty or has a way to hide it, which would allow you to hide objects on the base layer. If you share what you’re trying to accomplish, we might be able to troubleshoot together.
I’m trying to find a list of everything that only works on base layers and not on the second or additional layers. A company I was working with wanted to program all courses to complete with ‘All slides viewed’ instead of using the trigger. This led to a branching activity where the user had to see certain slides to complete it, and I was told to keep adding layers for each scenario.
Would it be possible to make the final interaction into a quiz without making it look like a quiz? You could hide the results slide.
It can be frustrating not having access to the forums, but based on my experience, some functions behave differently on layers. You’re right that mouse click animations are only available on the base layer. Slide transitions and certain timeline triggers might not work on layers, especially if they rely on slide-level actions.