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RE: Block not connecting

2026-08-11T12:14:55Z

Hi,

And besides that a LOT of new small updates! From translation to video. I'm looking forward playing with all the new possibilities and quality of life improvements

RE: Block not connecting

2026-07-23T08:27:45Z

Great solution! This will work for now, thank you

Block not connecting

2026-07-14T12:56:34Z

Hi Smartbuilder team,

I have a problem that some of the (blue) blocks don't connect to others. Attached a video to show it.
Even when I use a file found on this forum and made by you guys, I can't connect the blocks anymore once I disconnect them.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance

Marcel

RE: remember volume and caption

2026-06-12T07:57:34Z

Hi Smartbuilder team,

While on the subject of improving the video player(s), can the fullscreen function of the video component react the same way as the fullscreen action block. If you now click on the video component full screen in the player control bar, it will hide all the layers above it, while the normal fullscreen action block doesn't do this. And it is confusing to have 2 fullscreen buttons on screen.

I do understand this is not possible with the vimeo player, but with that I'm able to disable the fullscreen in the player control bar in the vimeo account settings. Maybe add the possibility to customise the player control bar of the normal video player too (controls, colors, opacity). But that's just an idea and not neccessairy right now.

In the future it would be cool if there would be a function to use the mouse movement as input. Then it becomes possible to hide the fullscreen button or other stuff when a video is playing and the mouse isn't moving for 2 seconds (like with youtube and vimeo). Besides that it can open possibilities like dynamic mouse cursors or viewers drawing on screen. But no need yet to put this on the list, as it is just a random brainfart .

RE: Challenge: Tic-tac-toe

2026-06-11T08:11:13Z

Hi Navdeep,

Yes, the difficulty level is exactly as you say. Hard is the best computer move, easy is just random placement and medium all possible options + twice the best move and then randomly pick, so it starts bad but becomes better during the game. So it becomes more likely the computer will see when there are 2 in a row.

Good suggestions! I will add the first and second in the next version. The third one is in the top left corner, but maybe it is too hidden. I will see if I can make it more visible. Maybe grey out the stones of the other person.

Thanks for these suggestions. This gives new inspiration for another improvement round

RE: Challenge: Tic-tac-toe

2026-06-08T12:59:21Z

Hi Smartbuilder community,

I had some time again to continue this project. You can see the project here: https://mooms.nl/projects/tictactoe/
- improved the computers best move (although still not super clean code, it does work pretty well and is hard to beat)
- added the design
- added the players' name(s) function and ability to choose the difficulty level
- added a multi player

I'm curious what you guys think of it. Although not the most interesting project, it was a very good challenge to teach myself some smartbuilder coding and ideas about game making. If you have any ideas or comments, I'm very happy to hear them . Or if you want to check out the project file, just leave a reply.

Cheers

Marcel

remember volume and caption

2026-05-28T13:05:36Z

Hi smartbuilder team,
Is it possible to remember (store in variable or control start settings) the volume of a video and if captions are on/off/language.

First the audio. We have multiple vimeo object in our lesson. Let's say you want to reduce the volume to 50%, it would be nice if the other videos then automatically also start at 50% volume. I didn't think this would be possible but to my surprise, when you have multiple vimeo embeds on a normal webpage, it does remember the audio level of the last video you've touched, so maybe this is also possible to get in smartbuilder

I've seen there is a 'lesson volume' function, but then there always needs to be a slider visible as I don't think it can be controlled by the volume function in the video controls which nicely hides when you don't move the cursor for a few sec.

Second is kinda the same but then with captions to be on or off. This is possible with the smartbuilder video object as 'captions' is an controllable attribute, and (again to my surpise) the vimeo object does remember if it's on of off if you have multiple vimeo videos on one slide. But if you go to another slide, it resets again

Lastly (I didn't test this) but if you use the normal video player and have multiple caption langauges (as shown here: https://share.smartbuilder.com/public/support/multilanguage-vtt-multiple-closed-caption-tracks.mp4) and pick for example French as a captions, does smartbuilder understand that for the next video caption on the next slide it should be french again, or do you have to select that language again?

As always, thanks for the help

RE: Challenge: Tic-tac-toe

2025-12-23T11:58:30Z

Hi Smartbuilder Community,

It took some time, but I finally had time to make an update on the game again. It is a big change, mainly on switching to lists and making a start on finding the best move for the computer. Here are some of my findings and remarks
- I found a way to make a list quickly using the split text block
- Everything is now made with the 'procedure' object as Navdeep advised and showed in this tutorial. This gives a cleaner overview and is perfect for small games.
- We use lists now instead of the inputtext. Mainly because it is easier to check the lenght of the lists.
- I had trouble with the 'is thing in list' block, so I used the 'is everything in list'. But still not sure what I did wrong. Maybe because a list can not be a 'thing'?
- I also had trouble transfering the only number on a list to another. That's why I used the 'pick random' on lists of 1 item long. I don't understand why I couldn't use the 'copy list' function or just connect the two variables directly to eachother.
- Is it possible to have the possible lists (vertical, horizontal & diagonal) in a map which could iterate the checking procedure? Just to make it more tidy instead of adding all possibilities (checking best move, checking best defence, checking if game finished etc) manually?

I still have a few things I want to improve. But all tips, tricks and ideas on improving or optimizing are welcome ofcoure. I would love to hear everybody's ideas on how to program this game

RE: D&D mistake

2025-09-29T17:00:18Z

Hi,

Ah I've completely missed this block. This solves it all . Thanks!

D&D mistake

2025-09-29T10:06:35Z

Hi Smartbuilder team

I can't get the drag and drop function working as I want it by resetting the position of the blocks. I've attached a small project to show it.

When you drag an object (example object 1) on the wrong drop, it will give you a 'wrong' message. When you then click 'Try again', the last dragged object resets to original position.
Problem:
When I now hover over the drop zone with another object (object 2), the first object automatically jumps to the drop object. Like it forgot he resetted its position or something and goes to the position it ended up before.

I does work correctly when I put the 'drag reset' option in the D&D object to incorrect, but I also need the 'off zone' function. Besides that, I want the reset to happen after you click continue and not immediatly when you dragged on the wrong drop zone.

Thanks in advance

RE: Hover block function

2025-07-21T17:20:09Z

Hi,

Ah so it was way easier than I thought and I could just use the normal text object. And it is interesting to see that the variable does work

Thanks again

Hover block function

2025-07-21T08:28:21Z

Hi Smartbuilder Team,

I've come across a problem. I have a text object that I want to change text when it hovers over an object. For example when hovering over elements of a picture, to show what that piece is being called.

The problem is when you move fast with your mouse from one object to another, it doesn't register the rollout or rollover. My guess is that it is a time issue, that it was working on changing the text before it registered a new rollover.
My first try was with a object on the background that resets stuff, but that doesn't work. And also the rollout on all object isn't fixing it. You have to move pretty slow with your mouse to make it work as expected.

My guess is that a 'hover' function (besides the rollover/rollout function) will solve this, as that will keep giving the status when the mouse is on a hotspot/button, instead of the one time when the mouse rollover it. Just like the hover function for the colors of a button works perfect. But then as a programmable block, and preferable for hotspot and buttons
Or is there a better way to do this?

Attached a project file with the two attempts that don't work at this moment.

Thanks in advance

RE: download files

2025-06-11T10:13:25Z

Hi,

The connection with Zapier works great. I thought it would need meta data or change the url, but the blocks you advised worked perfect! I'm really happy with this

The download function would be a nice addition. I'm now using the web element like you suggested which will work for now. But it can't directly download external files (pdf's on the clients side) as that will just open them within the web object and not download them. So I do need to download them first and put them in the assets folder, or use the asset tool, to make it work.

Thanks for your help and tips once again

download files

2025-06-06T11:44:41Z

Hi

I think I am missing something, but I just can't find a way to download a file (pdf in this case). I saw in older forums that there was a 'open link' block, but my guess is that this was from the old SB version and now everything is in the link tab.
I need to download pdf's without opening them. So in html is just adding the 'download' tag, but I can't seem to find how it works in smartbuilder

And a second question is if you have an idea how to add any form of registering email addresses. Our lesson is not in an LMS, but at the end of the lesson we want people to enter their email address, and this then will go into a spreadsheet/send email to client so we can add follow up emails. If I remember correctly from previous conversations, there is no way to directly email (without using an external email client). I don't undertand xAPI yet, but can that export this data and put thing neat in a database? We also tried to use zapier, and although the connection was succesfull using a webhook, we were not able to transfer the variables. Do you have any experience or idea how we can transfer variables to zapier?

Any suggestion or idea is welcome

Challenge: Tic-tac-toe

2025-05-24T08:15:10Z

Hi all,

Just to learn more about smartbuilder functionality and programming, I am trying to build a tic-tac-toe game which 'in theory' the computer would never loose. I'm already pretty happy with the base I have so far of how the pieces move and the limited code is uses to get everything working, but am now starting with the computer 'intellegence' to see traps and make the best move. Besides that I think there is still some room for optimising the code, like a way to check the item's index in a list.

All input from everybody is welcome. As said before, it is just a learning project, so everybody who wants to join, help, share, read along or use it in a project is welcome to. Ideas on possibilities how to do this, code blocks or ways to optimise code are are appreciated and needed for this project to evolve further, and of course help us learn stuff.

Thanks in advance and looking forward to everybody's reply

Lists input

2025-05-01T10:23:47Z

Hi,

I'm playing around with lists but I'm having some trouble getting data in quickly. I'm trying to find the quickest way to input the numbers 50 to 100. I've found a way to do this (image below), but I don't think it is the most effecient way .

Thanks in advance

RE: Vimeo not working on iPhone

2025-04-24T09:13:16Z

Hi Smartbuilder,

I found out that autoplay does kinda work now, but (weird enough) only if you come from a page where you clicked on a button (object) to go to the next page (with video). If you clicked on a hotspot to go to the next page, the autoplay doesn't work.

So it has something to do with the difference between a hotspot and a button object. I've tested in multiple times, and it is consistent. Maybe this is something you guys can look into?

It might have something to do with the button state. On mobile, if you have a 'rollover' or 'rollout' block in it, you need to click twice on a button to fire it. The first one activates the rollover event, and only the second one the click. When you don't have a rollover block, then it works normal with 1 click.

Or this might be an unrelated issue, but would also be nice to be fixed as we now can't use any rollover events

Thanks in advance

RE: Google analytics

2025-02-20T09:37:30Z

Hi Navdeep,
Thanks for your tutorial. At the end it turned out we did get it to work, but apparently google analytics does not allow you to iframe projects. So it did all come in fine on our website with the lesson, but when we iframed our website with the lesson to put it on the clients website, it blocks all analytics.

But your video was very helpful. It made us find the problem. Besides that, we didn't know about the build in tools for event reporting, which is really cool!

Thanks for your help again

RE: pauze on mobile vertical

2025-02-11T17:09:26Z

Hi Smartbuilder team,

Great new version!
I was wondering if you guys could take another look at the above problem. That when the lesson is smaller than the width of the lesson it already takes the mobile layout, while it is still horizontal.
We have tried multiple workarounds, but we actually ended up deleting all the phone layouts as it didn't work on a lot of laptops and other devices. Smaller laptops automatically zoom in on browser to make it more readable, so the screen becomes more than the width of the lesson. Besides that we iframe/lightbox our content often, and if the lesson is bigger than the iframe it pauzes or get the phone layout.

Could you please take another look at it. That it only takes the phone layout if 'window width < window height' and not smaller than lesson width.

Thanks in advance

Google analytics

2025-02-10T13:32:57Z

Hi,

We are having trouble getting the Google analytics out of the lesson.

We've added the measurement ID to the lesson settings, hoping this would add the analytics link in the html file and send stuff to our google analtyics. Because it didn't add the analtyics automatically in the html file, we added the google analytics code to the html file after publshing. Our guess is this is needed to send the data.

So far we now only get the statistics from the .html file. We don't see anything from the measurement ID inside smartbuilder. And because of this we also can't add triggers to our buttons to see which choices the viewers made (my guess is that this is the reason to have google analytics within smartbuiler).

I understand google analytics is not your software, but do you have some documentation or tutorial how to get it set up in smartbuilder. And how we can track button clicks?

Thanks in advance