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Stop videos from playing when navigating to different screens

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Posted on by Dimmy 31

Hey all,

 

I'm in the process of making a educational app informing our users of the benefits of MFA. Within this app, I am using the Tutorial template that is available as it seemed to be the easiest and quickest way to build this app. I have also inserted a few videos that further explain MFA.

 

I have just discovered however that upon playin the video, when you go to the next screen, the video continues to play.

As the Tutorial template creates the variable _guidestep (value) is there a way to use this as a control to determine whether or not the video should be playing?

 

Thanks.

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    v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Dimmy ,

     

    According to your description, I did a test for you.

    The strange thing is that when I switch screens, the video automatically pauses..

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    Did I misunderstand something?

     

    Best Regards,
    Wearsky
    If my post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help others. Thanks.

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    Dimmy 31 on at

    Hi @v-xiaochen-msft ,

    What I was having issues with was the Tutorial template that is available when you Add Screen > Tutorial

     

    This template essentially has 1 screen but uses the _guideStep variable to determine what is displayed on the screen based of the value of _guideStep.

     

    In this case, a video which I have added has the Visible value set to _guideStep=1 

    This sets the visibility of the video to only be visible when the _guideStep variable has a value of 1

     

    I later discovered that I can use this same variable for the Reset value.

    Since I only wanted the video to play on page 1 (_guideStep=1) I set the Reset value to be the remaining _guideStep values.

     

    eg. If I have a video on page 1 (_guideStep=1) I would want the video to stop and reset on the other pages. Thus the Reset value for the video would be "_guideStep=0 OR _guideStep=2 etc" This would use the value of the _guideStep variable to control when the video would Reset.

    Thanks for looking into this 😁

     

    Regards,

     

    Dimmy

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