Adobe Captivate 4 - CLICK BOX

Hi all,
I used to work on Captivate 3 but I passed to Captivate 4.
The problem is that now using the new Cap.4, when I assign a link
to a CLICK BOX (To open a another project) and press OK the link
seems fine but when close and come back to the slide I find that
the software had changed my link to another one. I rebooted the
software but the problem is persisting. Did any of you already have
this problem??
What should I do?
Thank you.

Hi there
When you use "Open URL or File", you specify just that. The
URL to a page. Perhaps
http://www.Google.com. Or a file
name as in SomeFile.htm or SomeFile.PDF or SomeFile.DOC.
When you use "Open other project" you generally browse to and
select the Captivate Project File (.CP) and Captivate sorts the
output type on its own. The big issue with Captivate 4 is that we
used to tell folks (in Captivate 3) to use this option and simply
ensure all the output files are in the same folder so that they may
find one another. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. For
example, if I place my project in C:\Projects\BoffoProject and use
Open Other Project, Captivate 4 now will expect to find the file it
is linking to in the same folder path on whatever PC it is copied
to. That's an unfortunate thing as you now will have to ensure you
specifically create that path to make things work.
Cheers... Rick

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