MSO is masking my buttons Indesign

[shandmedia]

Hi,

I have a 'timeline' I'm creating for a client in a Publish Online doc.

You'll click/tap on the year > panel slides with info for that year > click on the panel it slides out (image attached)

Problem I'm having is that I have the MSO with the info panels on a layer above the layer with my buttons and the top MSO layer is 'masking' or making my buttons not function.

I've tried a few things like each button having it's own layer but it's getting confusing and I'm short on time.

Is there a better way of achieving this or is it a case of having each button and panel on their own layer and messing around with the hierarchy?

Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.

Rough idea of what I'm trying to do is here -

https://indd.adobe.com/view/d5f6ee9a-2d2b-4067-88eb-88d7739f444d

[Laubender]

Hi,

to position the buttons outside of the MSO—even on different layers—will make no sense… The activated MSO will always cover the buttons.

The cleanest way I can think of is creating one large MSO where all the buttons are positioned in the first state of the MSO.

If you click one button from State 1, the MSO will show e.g. State 2 with the information of the year.

Depending on the layout that is presenting that information, there would be one single button to return to State 1 to choose a different year.

Regards,
Uwe

[shandmedia]

Thanks guys,

That makes sense. Best to have 1 state with all the buttons or make a state for each button?

[BobLevine]

Have all the buttons in the first state. Have a button in each other state to go back to the first state.

[BobLevine]

I’d do the whole thing as an MSO. You can animate objects on state load.

That would avoid any overlap issues.