On slide entry conditional action that jumps to another slide?

I assumed this would work, but it's not - should this work and I've got an error somewhere or do I needd another approach?
So I have a menu slide with 6 buttons, each button simply jumps to a specific slide. On each of those slides is a return button with an action that increments a variable (varCount) and jumps back to the menu slide. I would like to set it up where once the user has hit all the slides (varCount=6) and hits return, the menu is bypassed and they are jumped to a closing slide instead. To do this I tried to create a conditional action that compares the variable (if var = X then goto slide Y) and the have that action run on entry on the menu slide. However this doesn't appear to work. Should it? I know as an alternative I could modify and put the conditional on each return button instead, but before I do I want to see if I'm missing something on the current aproach
Version 6

Hi there
Where exactly are you setitng the variables?
One thing I would try is to insert a text caption object on the first slide that presents the variables. Configure it to present for the whole project. Then run the project and test. This will tell you whether the variables are getting set. If they aren't properly set, then your evaluation of whether the cumulative total is reached will fail.
Another thing to ask is if there is a scorable object between the slide where you are running the advanced action and the slide where you want to go. If so, your quiz settings may be preventing the slide from being reached. For example, if you have a question slide that hasn't been answered and the quiz settings say all questions must be answered.
Hope this helps;;; Rick

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The user can choose to take the pretest and complete the course by gettiong 4 or 5 questions correct and jump to the exit page.
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We have modules where there is content slides mixed with question slides. We want the learner to answer the questions and not skip them so originally we removed the next button and just used the continue function of the question. We have lots of feedback from people that they are getting stuck as they want to go back and review the content but once they hit the question slide again (which they may have already answered) they cant get past it as they have already answered it and there is no 'next' button so they have to close and reopen the module.
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In PowerPoint i can hide slide and jump to it from other slides.
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Really? The playbar MUST be turned off?
I ask in jest, because in the example I cited (Where I said the store is a couple of blocks down the street and I didn't grab the hand and say "let me lead you to it") I said that one could create a variable, set the variable then create an Advanced Action to check the value of the variable and only allow entry to the slide if the variable contains a value that allows entry.
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Thanks, you definitely got me started on the right track on variables and advanced action statements. The screen shots helped.
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I created a variable:
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Never had a formal training neither, but have been blogging about advanced actions and solving use cases for many users. And wrote some articles long time ago, here you can find the link with those:
https://workspaces.acrobat.com/?d=tGgSjfVqRtEgI6fORG-zbw
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