- Learning Articulate Storyline
- Stephanie Harnett
- 782字
- 2021-08-13 16:16:57
Working with the Timeline
The Timeline lists all of the objects, or content, that is present on a slide and is used to arrange and animate objects as well as control slide duration.
The Timeline tab appears in the Timeline, States and Notes panel directly below the slide when in Normal View as shown below:
If you can't see the Timeline, then perform the following steps:
- Click on the small arrow in the lower-right corner of the slide stage to display the Timeline, States, and Notes panel.
- Click on the Timeline tab to display the Timeline.
The Exercise 1 – Workplace Compliance file, created in Chapter 1, Creating a Story, contains a combination of text, graphics, and placeholder content. A listing of the slide objects appears in the Timeline, as shown in the previous image.
Here are a few things you should know when working with the Timeline:
- You can turn the visibility of objects on or off. You may find yourself doing this when objects are positioned in similar locations on the slide and you want to edit an object that appears beneath another. Temporarily turning the visibility of the top object off lets you clearly see the bottom object. You'll need to remember to turn visibility back on as objects that are not visible also do not appear in your final, published course.
- You can rename objects and should get into the habit of doing this. Creating short, meaningful names will help you clearly identify what the object is. In the next screenshot, renaming the first Placeholder object to be Intro Text makes it more obvious what kind of object it is and what it contains.
- You can also lock objects. This is a handy feature to prevent accidental movement or formatting of objects that you do not want to change:
Controlling the appearance of objects
The order of objects is important. Storyline overlaps slide objects so that the object at the top of the list in the Timeline is in front of all other slide objects.
You can move objects to a different stacking order by clicking on the object directly in the timeline and dragging it up (bring forward) or down (send backward). You can also right-click on an object on the slide and choose the action you want to perform:
Follow along…
With the Exercise 1 – Workplace Compliance file open, try turning the display on and off for a few objects and note how the slide content changes. Try moving Character 1 below Group 1. Notice that it disappears since it's now beneath the image of the folder. Move Character 1 back up such that it is above page 1.
Reading the Timeline
The Timeline can be read vertically for stacking order and horizontally for timing. The numbers running horizontally along the top show the running time of a slide in seconds. In the example above, all slide objects are visible when the slide starts and each stays visible until the end of the slide, in this case 4 seconds.
Tip
You can quickly preview a slide by clicking on the Play button in the lower-left corner of the Timeline. If you want to playback from a specific point, drag-and-drop the red icon (playhead) that appears on the upper-left side of the Timeline to the point in the Timeline where you would like to start playback, and then click on Play. You can also Stop playback and use zoom controls to control the Timeline display. Note that during slide play back, you will not be able to interact with any of the objects.
Follow along…
Continuing with the Exercise 1 – Workplace Compliance file, let's now add some text and adjust object names and timing:
- From the Design tab in the ribbon, select Story Size and adjust the size back to a 4:3 ratio by choosing 720 x 540 (4:3) from the story size drop-down list.
- Switch to Normal View, click in the title area where it says Click to add title, and type the new title as
Introduction to Comstar Compliance Program. - It's a good habit to rename objects on a slide to something descriptive as you go along. In the Timeline, double-click on object names and rename as follows:
- Textbox :
title - Placeholder :
introduction - Picture 1 :
paper clip - Character 1 :
employee - Page 1 :
intro paper - Paper 1 :
paper - Group 1 :
folder
- Textbox :
- Use your mouse to click-and-drag each object so that the timing of the object when it appears on the slide looks like the following:
- Click on the Play button to play the Timeline.
- Save this file under a new name,
Exercise 2 – Workplace Compliance.
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