{"id":3302,"date":"2019-10-30T19:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2019-10-31T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:50:47","slug":"articulate-storyline-3-things-im-excited-about-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/articulate-storyline-3-things-im-excited-about-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Articulate Storyline: 3 Things I&#8217;m Excited About &#8211; 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/5GoVLqeAOo6PK\" width=\"480\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center>If ever there was a time for an Excited Jonah Hill Gif reference! OH. BOY! THE. TIME. IS. NOW!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ramping up to deliver a session on Top Tips (when using) Articulate Storyline, and boy. oh. boy. Have the Articulate Storyline 360 updates in recent months been coming in handy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#1 &#8211; The New Trigger Workflow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Holy (excuse my language) shit (or poop, or caca, or amazeballs)! THIS. IS. A. GAME. CHANGER! I once got a sneak peek of this about a year ago over breakfast, and let me tell you&#8230;my eggs were not as exciting as I had hoped for afterward.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3303 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.18.41-PM.png?resize=300%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.18.41-PM.png?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.18.41-PM.png?resize=768%2C648&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.18.41-PM.png?w=846&amp;ssl=1 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s smart, it&#8217;s intuitive, it&#8217;s modern&#8230;I can now start to type the action I&#8217;m looking for or the occurrence I&#8217;m looking for and it narrows down my options. Holy crap! This makes things SO MUCH FASTER in terms of workflow!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3304 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.20.33-PM.png?resize=268%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.20.33-PM.png?resize=268%2C300&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.20.33-PM.png?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Triggers Panel, you can also use the linked dropdown (for ANY portion of the trigger programming) to quickly adjust what needs adjusting -swooooon-! I will say that this does call to the front and centre the importance of labeling things on your timeline, but hey &#8211; I&#8217;ll lecture you about that in another post. Today we&#8217;re joyous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#2 &#8211; SLIDE NUMBERS!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s3cq-Qs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I recently posted a screencast showing one method of creating a visual progress meter<\/a> using the new slide number functionality, and let me tell you&#8230;you have so many options when it comes to this. The slide number functionality provides you with a bunch of built-in variables:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3305 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.23.40-PM.png?resize=300%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.23.40-PM.png?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.23.40-PM.png?resize=768%2C570&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.23.40-PM.png?resize=1024%2C759&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-7.23.40-PM.png?w=1362&amp;ssl=1 1362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, you can use these variables in many ways to achieve your progress meter creation goals! Stay tuned for other options! This is functionality that I consider an entire game changer. It gives you permission to stop manually setting variables on a slide-by-slide basis, and for this we should praise all of the deities simultaneously. I also like that Articulate is providing you with options, because one progress meter is not the same for all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#3 &#8211; The Recover a Corrupt File Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been working in Storyline for awhile, you probably know that corrupted files are just a reality. Well &#8211; one thing that&#8217;s nice is that in a recent update, <a href=\"https:\/\/articulate.com\/support\/article\/Storyline-360-Recover-a-Corrupt-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Articulate has provided a feature that allows you to recover a recently corrupted file,<\/a> or at a minimum notifies you whether there is a temporary file stored elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot explain how valuable this is. I have spent a lot of money on hopefully software purchases claiming to recover my lost data&#8230;I have spent hours of my life redoing project files&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure that if this feature would have come out 5 years ago, I would have much fewer grey hairs. I would also likely not have bored 75-100 people to tears in my 2016 Articulate Roadshow: Toronto session (I&#8217;m sorry to any of you who were in attendance&#8230;though, you likely at some point since then have heeded all of the advice I provided), as now they have one less thing to worry about when it comes to backing up their files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever there was a time for an Excited Jonah Hill Gif reference! OH. BOY! THE. TIME. IS. NOW! I&#8217;m ramping up to deliver a session on Top Tips (when using) Articulate Storyline, and boy. oh. boy. 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