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Location Widget - Can't get location specific information to display.
Hi there,

I have followed your guidance in the instructions for the Location widget. I've also searched the forums and found the article where a suggestion was given by one of your support team regarding using the StencilRendered variable.

Unfortunately, even with all this, when I have tested the Storyline project it gives nothing when you approach the slide that contains country specific data/images.

Please can you assist as I'm currently confused as to why this isn't working and at a loss as to what's missing?

Here is a transfer link to WeTransfer for the particular file:

https://we.tl/t-IYXGcZuH94

Many thanks,

Ben Jones
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Hello. It's the logic of the Storyline triggers that's the problem:

- You load the widget on the first slide, but the trigger to do something when stencilrendered changes is on the second slide. The change occurs when the widget loads (aka on the first slide) so the trigger on the second slide will never fire.
- The triggers "Set Geocountry to England when Geocountry equals England" makes no sense. If it's already England, then there's no purpose to set it to England again.

Here's a good resource to learn more about Storyline triggers https://community.articulate.com/articles/storyline-360-working-with-triggers

In your case, it'll probably make sense to move the initial trigger to the second slide and change the trigger to when Geocountry changes instead of stencilrendered just so you have fewer variables to manage.

Here's your file condensed to a single slide: https://we.tl/t-mtnxLETy9g
It should do it now. The blue box in the center can be removed, I only placed it there to see when the location information loads.

I hope this helps.


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Or, if you still want to load the location information earlier in the training, you can do that, but the flag triggers then have to be "when timeline starts," not "when variable changes" because, again, the variables change on the slide where the information loads, not on the subsequent slides.
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