Putting a time limit on an interaction

To put a time limit on an interaction, you first need to set up the interaction. Then you add the time limit symbol to the interaction and set the time limit. Finally, you set up the result icon.

To set up the interaction:

Drag an interaction icon to the flowline and title it.
See Adding text or graphics to an interaction icon and Setting interaction icon properties.
Set up a response type symbol and a result icon for each answer.
For more details, see Ways to interact.

To add the time limit symbol to the interaction:

Drag a result icon to the right of the interaction icon.
An icon you attach to an interaction icon is called a result icon. The result icon determines what happens when a user reaches the time limit you set. It's a good practice to use a map icon as the result icon, because that makes it easy to make changes. You can use any icon as the result icon; you must, however, place interaction, framework, sound, digital movies, and decision icons inside a map icon.
Double-click the symbol that appears above the result icon.
Select Time Limit in the dialog box and click OK.
Give the symbol a title that describes what it does.

To set the time limit:

Double-click the time limit symbol.
In the Time Limit field on the Time Limit tab, type the number of seconds you want to give a user.
If a user can interrupt the timer by clicking a help button, selecting an item from a menu, or triggering some other perpetual response, select an Interruption setting. For more information, see Time Limit Response Properties.
Click the Response tab, and select the Erase and Branch options. Click OK.
For more details, see Response tab (Response Properties).

Authorware automatically gives a time limit symbol the same characteristics (such as the same Erase, Status, and Branch options) as the time limit symbol immediately preceding it in the interaction. For example, if you create time limit symbols 1 and 2, modify symbol 1, and then create time limit symbol 3, symbol 3 takes on the characteristics of time limit symbol 2. It doesn't take on the characteristic of the last modified time limit symbol, symbol 1.

For information about setting up the result icon, see Changing the result icon.

Putting a time limit on an interaction

To set up the interaction:

To add the time limit symbol to the interaction:

To set the time limit:

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