Adding a second Advanced Action to an object changes the behavior of the first AA

[PaulaAcker]

Hi!

First time posting here. I'm building an activity where the learner can flip images of pages in a report by clicking back and next arrows. The next arrow executes an advanced action to collapse the page left. The back arrow is supposed to bring the page back. I've tried using the "Show" command, but that doesn't work at all. I can apply an entrance effect and that brings the page back (no flipping, but that's okay), but then a weird thing happens: my original collapse left effect changes behavior. Instead of collapsing like a normal page turn with the right edge moving and the left edge staying fixed, the page flips from the center, even though I've done nothing to change the Advanced Action.

I'm not sure which parts of my work to show here to help. Here are images of the two Advanced Actions:

[Lilybiri]

How did you test?

[PaulaAcker]

I used the Preview.

[Lilybiri]

Which Preview method, please?

[PaulaAcker]

From this slide

[Lilybiri]

This is a responsive project. Most effects do not play properly with Preview methods, you can only be sure about them if you publish and upload to a webserver. Lot of effects do have issues, either in SWF output or, as in your case, for HTML5 output. Especially if you repeat an effect as is the case here. Sorry, cannot help you further, it is more trial and error. Sometimes a custom effect works better, not always however. In many cases I prefer to use micronavigation if an effect is really necessary instead of applying it by an advanced action. Not that I don't like AA, because my blog is almost exclusively dedicated to advanced and shared actions, but because they don't seem to work fine. Responsive projects are even worse.

[PaulaAcker]

Thank  you! Can I find more on micronavigation on your blog?

[Lilybiri]

Sure. Google for micronavigation. I use it to go back to the first frame of the effect timeline when needed, and add effect time-based. Bit cumbersome but often with a better result than applied by AA.