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May 25, 2012
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Conditional Statements

  • May 25, 2012
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Is it possible to assign a particular conditional statement that makes a slide jump to a certain slide if and only if a particular sequence of slides are played? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

To answer your questions,

I was planning on turning the playbar off, so everything would be controlled through navigation.

The list of floors would be on a different slide.

The main menu has the list of subjects (or Frequently visited Areas) so that is the default that I want any subject choices to return to after completion.

Once a choice is selected and after the spiel is completed, the user has the opertunity to repeat what was said, return to the lobby or see a different floor. What I want is the "return to lobby" choice to auto return to either return to the subject lists when its chosen through the subject slide or return to the floor side when chosen through the floor slide.

Choosing a floor will visit the floor choices and once those choices are selected, will return to the choices for that floor.

For the subject they will go to some of the same slides from the floor group but will return to the subject choices only.

You are right, I need to store these choices like in AnitaHorsley's tutorial but the execution is slightly different.

I was trying this:

If reference desk button is pushed from the subject slide

Action: jump to slide (subject choices)

Else: jump to slide (floor choices)

Doesnt seem to be working though, I'm obviously doing something wrong


You do not tell how exactly your 'IF' condition is written in the AA dialog box?

I would create a user variable, will label it v_source, no need to give it a default value. The statement:

Assign v_source with 1

should be added to every button/click box on the subject slide, that navigates to some slide about a subject.

A similar statement

Assign v_source with 2

should be added to every button/click box on the floor slide, that navigates to a floor sequence

On all possible end slides...you'll need the conditional action

IF v_source is equal to 2

THEN Navigate to ..... floor choice slide

            Continue

ELSE Navigate to ... subject choice slide

            Continue

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AnitaHorsley
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May 25, 2012
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Legend
May 25, 2012

Welcome to our community

Indeed it's possible. You will need to define a variable to track if the slides have been played. Then have your conditional statement check the value of the variable.

Cheers... Rick

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May 25, 2012

Would it be something like a counting variable for those specific slides? Thanks for your help.

Captiv8r
Legend
May 25, 2012

Hello again

As you enter or exit slides you are able to assign an action. So what you could do is to assign an action that updates a variable based on the slide(s) having been viewed.

Cheers... Rick

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