Unable to start tour, always get error: "Tour ended, init prevented."

[borfast]

I'm using version 0.8 but I don't seem to be able to start a tour at all. I activated the debug option and always get the following error message on my console:

Tour ended, init prevented.

Unfortunately it doesn't say anything else, so I have no idea about what's wrong. I am including both the CSS and the JS file in my HTML code, and stripped down my tour code to the simplest, just like the example on the home page:

// Instance the tour
var tour = new Tour({debug: true});

// Add your steps. Not too many, you don't really want to get your users sleepy
tour.addSteps([
  {
    element: "#btn-1",
    title: "Title of my step",
    content: "Content of my step"
  },
  {
    element: "#btn-2",
    title: "Title of my step",
    content: "Content of my step"
  }
]);

// Initialize the tour
tour.init();

// Start the tour
tour.start();

Am I doing something wrong?
Is the error message I mentioned at the top something with a common / well known cause?
What could be triggering it?

[emmenko]

Hi @borfast, have you checked the localStorage? The tour is probably ended and there should be a key tour_end: yes.

You can solve this in 2 ways:

• check if the tour is ended, then restart it automatically or by user input

tour.init();
tour.start();
if (tour.ended()) {
  // decide what to do
  tour.restart();
}

• always restart the tour instead of calling start

tour.init();
tour.restart();

[borfast]

Weirdly enough, today it is working again, even though I didn't change anything...
Thanks for the quick reply anyway! Maybe it will come in handy if it happens again.

[chadb]

Thank you this helped me. I didn't realize how clever the code was by using local storage.

[doganmeh]

in some occasions tour.restart() did not help; so I had to clear localStorage for tour_current_step as well:

localStorage.removeItem('tour_current_step')