Adobe Captivate 4 and Javascript

Please let me know if anyone has ever successfully used Javascript within a Captivate 4 project.
I do not know Javascript, but inserted the code, "location.reload(true);" with the hopes to refresh the current page of a Captivate 4 project loaded in our LMS. When I did this, it seems to refresh the page as I need, but then it bounces backward one slide and when I click again it does the same thing.
Is there Javascript I can use to refresh the page and then have the project continue?
My project is such that when I run it in my LMS I get to the first question on a quiz slide, the letters A,B,C and D appear for my multiple choice answers, but the actual answers do not. If I refresh the page, the answers appear. I would like to have this page automatically refresh when it gets to this point, so the user will not have a need to do this or even be aware it has happened. Is this possible?
Thank you,
David Gambal

Hi David
To refresh the slide, java script is location.reload(true)
No commas, no fullstop
If you want to test the same, create a blank slide in Captivate project, In Slide Properties on slide exit >Execute Java Script >Browse > in Java script window type
location.reload(true)
Hope it helps
Thanks VJ

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