When I teach my vILT Articulate Storyline 360 classes, we immediately tackle scene creation. As the project grows and more scenes are added, students quickly realize that the scene numbers can get out of numeric order. For instance, scene 6 might end up becoming the starting scene and being listed first in Story View. Scene 4 might be the next scene, followed by scenes 3, 5, 1, and 2.
In the example below, notice that the second scene is numbered 5, and the third scene is numbered 4.
I’ve never been bothered by scenes that are out of numeric order. However, this erratic numbering scheme might bother some Storyline developers. If so, the Index tool allows you to quickly renumber scenes.
In the image below, I’ve selected the fifth scene.
I want the selected scene to be treated as the second scene by Storyline and assigned the number 2.
On the Home tab of the Ribbon, Scenes group, I clicked the Index tool drop-down menu and selected 2.
Remember, just before this, I selected the second scene. By choosing 2 from the Index menu, I’m telling Storyline to change scene number 5 to scene number 2.
Here is the reindexed Story View. Reindexing does not negatively affect any slide-to-slide jumps compared to cutting and pasting scenes.
Using the same approach, I quickly re-indexed the remaining scenes.
Check out this short video to see the Index feature in action.