Visited State for Buttons

[shanwoman Member Karma: 9 pts@shanwoman]

I can’t believe Lectora 12 doesn’t have a visited state for buttons. Am I wrong? Storyline has this and clients now expect a gray button after it has been clicked. The disable state doesn’t fit this need as the learner cannot go back and revisit the link if the button is disabled.

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[Sergey SnegirevMember Karma: 336 pts@ssneg]

Sounds like a nice idea.

[Adam LeiblerMember Karma: 12 pts@AdamLeibler]

Agreed, @shanwoman & Sergey. Right now, in almost every Lectora course we build, I have to manually account for a “visited” state using some combination of show/hide, changeContents, or some other Lectora sorcery.

It’d be nice to have this as a fifth button state to avoid that extra work in the pipeline.

In the meantime, I’d be happy to share some of my workarounds with you, @shanwoman, if you need ’em. 🙂

Adam Leibler, LCA
Senior eLearning Developer
eLearning Brothers

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[Trivantis SupportModerator Karma: 19 pts@Support]

I’ll submit this as a feature request 🙂

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[shanwoman Member Karma: 9 pts@shanwoman]

Thanks, Adam. Yes, I’d love to hear about your workarounds. What I’ve been doing is using status indicators and creating a color and grayed out version of each image in Photoshop. But this means I can’t have a hover state. Also, if you use a shadow or any kind of effect on a status indicator image, it often means you won’t see a “hand cursor” when hovering over the image. Trivantis has identified this as a bug. What types of workarounds have you had success with?

By the way, sorry for the long delay in replying. I had forgotten to check the box to be notified of replies to my post. Just now happened upon your reply. 🙂

[Anonymous @]

How about this workaround:

Add a button (it would be a checkmark) whose initial state would be hidden. After a button is clicked and the state changed to the clicked state, the hidden button would appear and be placed atop of the original button showing the user that this has been completed/viewed.

Storyline does this same thing, but a bit easier.

[Anonymous @]

Adam – please contact me to discuss your work arounds. david.mark@Maryland.gov

[Trav OwersMember Karma: 2 pts@towers9815]

I have used a visited variable and then add to that each time button is clicked.

I have created my own Button group for each state

All buttons are groups

[button Example]
___[Image Blue] – Normal State (Background of the button)
___[Image Gold] – Selected State (For when its active)
___[Image Grey] – Disable State
___[Clear with Tick] – Visited State
______Action: On Show Hide IF…(see below)
___[Text Box] – Button Text
___[Transparent Button] Normal: Empty 100 Opacity (Clear)
_______________Down: Colour at 70 Opacity
_______________Over: Colour at 40 Opacity
______Action: On_MClk_Goto…
______Action: On_MClk_Goto_ModVar_IF

I have created a variable that will hold each visit. I called it ButtonVisited.

So on each button I have Modify Var Action that added the <<CurrentPageName>>+”A” to the variable.

Visited State image has on Show IF ButtonVisited does not contain <<CurrentPageName>>+”A“. Where A is button on this page.

If you have more than one button it would be B and then C, (Sure you can see the pattern)

Note: I always keep my page names to just numbers as you might run out of space for SCORM 1.2.

Also you might ask why an image. Well each image is only 1 pixel by 1 pixel. This means that I can use the same image for button of any size!

Well thats one way to do it till its a standard feature.

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[shanwoman Member Karma: 9 pts@shanwoman]

I’m back to using Lectora for a new project after being away for a year. I just downloaded 16.2 and can it be that this still has not been fixed by the fine folks at Trivantis? No visited state for buttons? Or am I missing something?

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[Tyson PriddleMember @tpriddle2405]

Certainly surprising that this hasn’t been included by default considering the major competitors in this space offer it.

[mjbdale Member @mjbdale]

Am just wondering about this myself, could anyone from Trivantis provide details?

 

Thank you!

[Darrel SomozaMember Karma: 199 pts@Klaatu]

Go to this POST for a simple solution that provides zero graphic (no weight) buttons that can have a visited style. Very easy to do.

[amanda hetheringtonMember Karma: 7 pts@ahetherington9113]

I’m looking for a ‘down’ state for buttons – one that remains after I move the mouse away. The same as a ‘visited’ state in other authoring tools.

I’m using Lectora 17.1 and still only have 4 button states, including ‘down’ but this only appears while you hold the mouse click on the button, so I’m assuming ‘visited’ still requires a workaround?

Cheers

Amanda

[approg Member Karma: 22 pts@approg]

There’s this:
<http://www.apixel.com/atelier/page05t.htm&gt;
which mimics Captivate’s smart shape object, allowing you to create buttons with “visited” states in Lectora. It’s based on JavaScript but it doesn’t look difficult to use.

 

[Peter SorensonMember Karma: 1 pt@peterLEXsorenson]

So many limitations in this product that are self-imposed.

Why not allow the user to create their own states in addition to the native core four?

I need a “clicked/selected” state – where the button can now include a checkmark to signify the button has been selected. No opportunity to make my own.

But the button still resources an image – so – with a little bit of javascript you can overcome the #Lectoralimitation.

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