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One-to-many drag and drop exercise - how do you do that?
I want my learners to identify three components on a picture of a machine. Any good idea how you can use the built-in tools for doing that?
Hotspot clicking is useless as it will only allow for ONE correct answer. Not multiple.
I tried Free Form Drag and Drop, but this is limited to One drop One correct. Cant do many-to-many.
I have marker A B and C. I can make them drag and drop, but it doesn't matter if they are on Hotspot A, B or C - all 3 are correct. As long as there is a marker in all 3 hotspots.
But Storyline is fighting me very much to not allow this. Only way I can make dragable objects is to make a FreeForm slide with Drag and drop.
However, this slide can only ever have a correct result if a PARTICULAR object is dropped on a PARTICULAR target. Can I somehow convince Storyline that the question is correct when I say so via a trigger? Why is this so restricted anyways?
After scooting around on the forum for a bit I found an ancient work-around posted originally by refco on youtube:
Drag Drop - Multiple Drags with Multiple Targets
This works. Would sure be swell if one-to-many or many-to-many would be supported by the built-in freeform drag-and-drop.
So you need to create a Free Form Pick One slide and then create a trigger for each dragable object that changes their state to Drop Correct when they are released over a shape. This also turns them dragable.
See the example below for your own projects where you want a freeform drag and drop slide with one object that has many correct drops.
The downside to my solution is that if the user drags all 3 objects into the same hotspot, it still passes. I will have to live with it.
Here is a sample that allows you to choose whether multiple objects can be dropped on a single target or not.
Drag and Drop Ultimate Solution:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/drag-and-drop-solution-sample-with-multiple-correct-targets-with-drag-off-and-return-plus-a-lot-more
