Presentation advancing without click

[lfilla]

I have a presentation where all of my slides have "click to continue" animations on them that wait for a click from the user before continuing (sometimes in the middle of a slide, sometimes to advance to the next slide).

I'm publishing for web delivery and all of these animations that require a click are being ignored. It's just flying through my presentation without stopping to let people read.

What am I doing wrong? (It doesn't matter what I set the Slide Properties>Advance to, the click requirement is ignored by articulate)

[Justin]

That's not how On Click animations work in Presenter. In Presenter they are used to sync your animation with your audio. See this blog article.

[lfilla]

Thanks for pointing me to the blog, but I am already using "On Click" for all of my "click to continue" animations. The problem is that Articulate is ignoring them.

If I run the slideshow in PowerPoint, it waits for a click whenever I tell it to. If I publish it (to Web) the presentation keeps going and never stops to wait for a click.

I don't see other postings about this so I'm assuming I've set something wrong, I just don't know what.

Laura

[lfilla]

I'm not using narration. At least, not yet.

[Justin]

On click animations don't work as on click animations in Presenter. I would suggest taking a look at the blog article I referenced in my previous reply.

[lfilla]

Perhaps I'm missing something. After a fourth read of the blog article, all I am getting is "We recommend setting most animations to be On Click" - which I'm already doing.

My Presenter presentation does not stop and wait for a click at those points. If the blog article says anything about that behavior, I don't see it.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by lfilla

My Presenter presentation does not stop and wait for a click at those points. If the blog article says anything about that behavior, I don't see it.

Correct. That's because you can't click on click animations in the published output. You can either sync your audio to On Click animations or they show up based on the animation timings you set up in Presenter 5 -> Library and Options -> Other or Presenter '09 -> Presentation Options -> Publish.

[lfilla]

Ok, so to solve my original problem... Can I have a slide stop and wait for a click at any point using any method? What would that method be?

[Justin]

You could have a slide advance by user which you can set up in the Slide Properties. Then you could duplicate that slide and then hyperlink the original slide to the new slide and have it do whatever you want it to do. You can also do some branching using Presenter '09.

[lfilla]

...but there's no way to make an animation pause midstream and wait for a click. Ok. I filled out a feature request.