Linking individual sidecar slides

JeremyChanfreau

I want to make a StoryMap that lets the audience start at any point in a sidecar (in slideshow orientation) to show the full extent of the content's looping behavior. The way I theorized this working is by having buttons for all the starting points. Each button links to an individual slide in a sidecar, then the user can read each slide until they reach the end, and then press the restart button to go back to the "first" stop and keep reading until they reach their original chosen starting point. I know you can access the link to a header, but is there a way to get a link to the slides in the sidecar? I'm also open to other ideas if someone has ideas.

oevans_storymaps

@JeremyChanfreau -- Thanks for posting your question! There are no separate links to sidecar slides. But as you mentioned, you can link to headings. So you could add a heading at the beginning of each sidecar to create an anchor that you can link to.

Please note, however, that linking to headings in a slideshow layout may not work as you expect. Since slideshow narrative panels are fixed, and since the slideshow doesn't "dock" in place as readers scroll through the story, linking to slideshow headings doesn't always position the screen as you might hope.

It may not be the horizontal experience you are looking for, but using the floating or docked sidecar layouts may produce better results.