Advance Action Replay Not Consistent

Working with Captivate 5.5, I have created an Advanced Action designed to replay the current slide. It is attached to a REPLAY button that appears after the slide's audio is finished and the slide has paused. The Execute Advanced Action is invoked "On Success" for my REPLAY button. The course content was built and being tested when I noticed that this Advanced Action no longer works. The Advanced Action code has only two lines : (1) Assign cpCmndGotoSlide with rdinfoCurrentSlide (2) Continue. I have seen within this discussion group that someone also had this problem but it was resolved by duplicating the same two lines of code...I tried that and it didn't work for me. The screen returns to the beginning of the slide but does NOT resume playing.
Thinking the slide thought it was still in a PAUSE state, I tried adding an extra lines of code before the Continue line of code: (1) Assign rdcmndResume with 1. The problem still occurs.
Any idea on why the slide is not playing after the REPLAY andr what I can do differently to make this work?

Hi,
These advanced actions are working at my end as well.
Did you tried this with a sample project, a project with just 2 plain slides, add a button and then add this advenced action.
See if it works.
If it does, then we can check the project.
thanks

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Conditional advanced actions still not operational

I have been trying to master some basic conditional actions but with very little luck. You can see from the screen shot that all I am trying to achieve it to have a situation where once the user has clicked all of the buttons a Well done message pops up. Could this be so hard? I have included screen shots of the variables I have created as well as the advanced actions. Aplogies for the screen shots.

Maybe you should have read this
http://blog.lilybiri.com/template-for-reusing-script old but the work flow for the actions still valid.
http://blog.lilybiri.com/link-score-to-attempts-in-custom-questions scroll down to the actions on the Score slide
And I showed the work flow in a recent webinar about shared actions, you'll find the recording link for 'Prepare and Share Advanced Actions' here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/tag/etrainings
Have several comments about your condtional action:
Why do you add the condition 'If 1 is equal to 1'? That is only needed as standalone condition if you want to have a standard action combined with a conditional action, is not the case here
Combi standard and conditional action old article explaining that combination
The problem is that your conditional action is triggered by the On Enter event for your slide: you don't tell if you return to that slide? I don't think so, which means this action will never again be done
http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions
The solution is to combine the standard with the conditional action in the actions triggered by the On Success event for the buttons; use a conditional action with two decisions (described in the second link I posted above):
'Always' is standard action (If 1 is equal to 1') and has the commands that you have in your present standard actions
'Checking' is the real condition, has to be after the Always (sequence very important: http://blog.lilybiri.com/blog-after-posterous-clickclick); as I told you just need the 3 conditions about the variables combined with AND
Sorry for all the links, have been writing about advanced actions for about 3 years, stopped in March. If I was sure to find enough buyers, would create some digitial cookbooks. But I feel this would be a lot of work for nothing.
Lilybiri

Display selection of user variables later on in project - can't get advanced action to work

Hi all,
I'm working on a sales training with Captivate 5, based on PPT. I want to do the following, but can't figure out how to design the advanced actions to do it:
The learner is asked to choose 1 of 3 products he wants to work with (ok, that's easy).
For that product he's asked to provide 10 features in TEBs (so far so good, 10 user variables created for each feature).
As a next step, he needs to choose the top 3 features with which he wants to work further. The chosen 3 display a check mark when the respective clickbox is clicked, when he chooses the 3rd, a 'done' button & a caption 'click here...' appear. Advanced actions working ok, see below what they look like. If there's an easier way to do that, please let me know - took me hours to get this to work!
One issue I face is, that I don't know how I could allow the user to change his choice, i.e. 'un-check'. Currently, checked is checked - no way for the learner to change his mind.
But even more importantly:
I need to display the content of the 3 checked/selected variables at a later stage in the project. So, say the learner choses feature 2, 3 & 6 as the most important by checking the respective clickboxes behind the displayed variables (v_neo_f1 to f10) - how do I need to change my advanced action, so that I can generate variables v_neo_chosen1 - 3?
As you see in the screenshots above, I've tried to do that by creating an additional variable for each of the 10 features and assigning the value 1 when it's checked. That way I could check later in the project, which of those variables has the value 1 - but I don't know how to link this variable (v_neo_f1_check) then to the variable for the feature in which the text I need to display is stored (v_neo_f1).
This got me a major headache & hours of frustration already - can any of the guru's help me out here?
If anybody is interesting in creating the necessary actions for me at a reasonable rate, please let me know. I'm bordering desperation.
Happy new year,
Anja

I'm not sure I fully followed exactly what you are trying to do, but essentially what I got from your post is that its pretty complicated and you want to create new variables on the fly.
For that sort of thing I would suggest that advanced actions may not be advanced enough for what you are trying to achieve and that you should go for a Flash Widget instead.
For anybody getting started on widgets, I throughourly recommend the Widget Factory by the Widget King, which can be found at:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/
I also strongly recommend the following video:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=1719643&loc=en_u s
Alternatively, as Lilybiri suggests, there may already exist a widget that does what you want it to do.

Actions and Advanced Actions not working correctly. - Captivate 8

In our project, we have it set so that after every section the student is asked three quiz questions (they are set on the default quiz slides.) On success, the person jumps to the next question slide. On failure, the person goes to next slide which has two buttons - one that allows them to simply move forward to the next quiz question and one that allows them to go back and review. The "Go back and Review" button takes the person back to the specific content slide that contains the answer to the question they are being asked. This button is set to advanced actions "Jump to Slide ..." and "Show Button..." - The button is a 'Return to Quiz' button to allows the person to find the answer then try the question again. I know that the buttons on the default quiz slides cannot be programmed to do a specific action, but every time we click 'Submit' it seems fine until we click 'Next' to move ahead, it then routes us back to one of the content slides (Slide 7) instead of the next slide (if wrong), or the next question slide (if right). I have looked at the Advanced Interactions Window and there is nothing linking this slide to anything. I have not had this problem with any of our other modules or sections. I have tried creating new question slides and it did not work. I deleted Slide 7 and it worked fine the first time through the preview, but then when I viewed the preview again, it started jumping back and would not even let me get to the questions. Can anyone help?

Normally the Next button on a question slide is not needed, because it has the functionality of Skipping the question. It is however needed if you want to allow Review.
Another explanation is that you did change the normal work flow for a question slide, where a two-step process for submitting will take automatically the user to the next slide.
Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog
What did you do to need the Next button? If the user submits:
Feedback appears with the indication to press Y or to click on the slide, happens at the pausing point of the Question slide (default is 1.5secs)
When user presses Y or clicks, the actions Success/Last Attempt are executed if all attempts are exhausted, and you have only 1 attempt on Question level: the actions are by default Continue, but you can change it to 'Go to Next Slide' to shorten the waiting time (or drag the pausing point closer to the end of the slide).
What did you change?

Weird issue. Captivate 6 not letting me select a script for an Advanced Action

Hi, So i'm facing this really weird issue on a captivate 6 project that i built. I need to add an Advance Action on a slide Exit action. This was previously set as "Continue" and now I want to set this to "Execute Advanced Action" (an Advanced Action script that I just wrote). The thing is that when I change the On Exit property to "Execute Advanced Actions", I am not able to select a script from the "Script" dropdown. I've tried everything from:
changing machines and doing this on different computers with Captivate 6
Making copies of the file and trying those
Closing Captivate and Restarting my computer
Ensuring that the slides are not locked
but can't seem to figure this out. Also funnily, if I try to set the On Exit property of let's say slide 67 as "Execute Advanced Actions" (when it was previously just "Continue"), all other slides are also changing to this, meaning the On Exit property for all other slides has also been changed from "Continue" to "Execute Advanced Actions".
I've been stuck with this for the last 6 hours and can't figue this out.
Please Help!!!
-Sean

If this is the same file you were having issues with before where we suspected corruption, then I'd have to say this probably confirms it.
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-troubleshooting/recover-corrupt-project
Usually the fix is to copy all slides into a new blank shell project of the same size to try and strip out the corruption issue.
See item #4 here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-troubleshooting/basic-troubleshooting-tech niques
However, since you are on a Cp version earlier than 7.0.1, please note that this will also strip out all of your current advanced actions as well (which also might be where the corruption is anyway).
Your issue is actually quite rare. I cannot guarantee you that Cp 7 would never do the same thing, but one advantage of Cp7 is that you can try copying and pasting slides into a new shell project and it WILL bring along the advanced actions and variables as well. So I definitely think it's worth downloading the trial version of Cp7, upgrading with the Cp 7.0.1 patch and giving it a go to see if that fixes your issue.
Alternatively, if you haven't got lots of time-consuming Advanced Actions to recreate, just paste all slides into a new shell project and recreate them. It's probably not going to take that long if it's only one project file.

Advanced action: jump to next slide if all text entry boxes are filled out. If not, pause project and show error message

Hi there
Working with captivate 4 and advanced actions, which is a great new feature, I encounter the following problem:
I have a sign-in slide, where the user has to insert his name and several other data. For user-friendly handling, I have the text entry boxes appearing one after another, so when the user confirms his entry, the next text entry box appears and has the focus.
The button for jumping to the next slide works with an advanced action:
Only if the user has filled out all the text entry boxes, the action "jump to the next slide" is performed.
If not, an error message is shown.
It works well so far.
Now, I want the project to pause there, and not to jump back to the beginning of the slide (as suggested in another Thread in this forum), because then the text entry boxes dissappear again.
I tried to set the movie control variable rdcmndPause to 1 in order to make the movie pause, but nothing happens.
I tried it with an external playback control bar and without, it didn't work in either case.
I found the hint:
To control the project through the skin file, add the prefix cpSkinLoader_mc to the variables. This might be the solution.(?)
But how can I change the name of a MovieControl Variable?
If anyone knows, how this is supposed to work or has another suggestion to solve the problem, please let me now.
Thanks a lot.
Petra

Hi Petra,
I believe I can help you, but from a completely different angle than anything you've tried yet. I try to find simple solutions to complex problems. No advanced actions will be needed, just a little creative timing. First, I need to be sure I correctly understand what it is you're hoping to accomplish.
If I understand you correctly, you've got a single welcome slide. On this slide you've got several TEB's (text entry boxes), set up with variables to make your project more personal or gather some required information. These TEB's have no right or wrong answers, they simply require an entry: such as an address which begins with a numeric key. The TEB's are set to appear one after another, as one is completed the next one appears. Once all have been completed a next button, set to "jump to next slide" takes them to the next slide and on through your course. You want the project to pause until the user clicks this button, and only proceed if all TEB's have been entered. If not, you wish an error message to appear.
If the above description is correct, I'd do the following:
Leave your TEB's to show up one at a time as the previous is submitted, as you've described. (each one pauses the slide till info is submitted, then "continues" the slide and the next TEB displays)
Set each TEB to "display for rest of slide".
For the next button: In the properties dialog box, options tab, name the button "Next_button" and uncheck the visibility box.
Open the properties for the final TEB that students will fill in and set the on success property to "show" then choose the Next_button by clicking the drop down arrow beside the "show" field. This will hide the Next button until all TEB's have been filled in.
There is no error message, because there is no possibility of error. Why tell a student they've messed up, just eliminate that possibility! All TEB's only display after the previous is entered, and the Next button is hidden until the last TEB is entered.
I've tested this in a simple 3 slide project and it all worked fine, including some variables. If you need more detailed info, or would like to see the sample proj. I created let me know.
Hope this helps.
randy

Advanced Actions not Working

I built a slide with some advanced actions (specifically, I execute an advanced action "On Success" of a button push). The scripts seem to execute fine when I'm previewing the project within Captivate but, when I publish the project and upload the SWF file to the web, the actions don't fire. I can hit the button all day and nothing happens.
I'm sure there is an option or something I am overlooking but I just can't find it. Any help here would be appreciated. Also, I am publishing to Flash Player 10 (not sure if that makes a difference).

This doesn't sound like a bad install issue. Don't be too quick to reinstall an app when the content is playing fine for other users.
You say you're on IE9. Have you checked into the settings on your browsers to see if popups are disabled or there are security restrictions on what IE deems to be "active content".
Find another user nearby with IE8 and see if they can run your content. Your issue may be something local to your machine.

Advanced Action not applied if button is clicked 1time

I am making a game in Cap 5 that has a timer. We were given feedback that sometimes the timer stresses people out - so I added a Hide and a Show button on each slide. Clicking a button executes an advanced action that corrsponds w/the button name - but both buttons still appear the whole time. Example: The learner clicks Hide, the timer goes away, learner is kept on the same slide but they don't see the timer (all expected). Button for Hide is still there and does nothing if clicked. Learner clicks Show button and the timer is shown (expected), but the timer is reset (not expected). Lesson stays on that slide (expected). Learner re-clicks hide and the timer is hidden (expected). Learner re-clicks Show and the slide advances (not expected) and timer is reset (not expected).
The timer is a widget that we created and is set to appear for the rest of the slide. It worked well before this show/hide stuff was added. Any ideas?
Bonus round: There is audio on this same slide - and it will not play when the slide advances from previous slide...though it will play if you click forward and then back to this slide. Any ideas there?
I'm happy to attach images - if you think this will help. Let me know what you need.
Thank you!

Most widgets execute their code when they enter "Runtime" on the Captivate stage. Essentially this can be translated as when the widget is shown on the stage then it will execute its code.
If you hide a widget and then show it again then the widgets code will execute once more as it figures it is entering "runtime" for the first time.
The best option is to add the "show/hide" buttons directly in the widget as you can keep the widget visible on the stage, but simply hide the timer movieclip. This would make sure that the timer is not reset.
www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more..

Advanced action not working on slide end

Hi,
I am new to captivate.
I am creating a toggle button. On clicking this button an image appear and disappear.
It works fine if I click the button before captivate slider reaches to its end. Slider stops moving when I click.
But if I try to click the same button after slider reaches to its end the button does not work.
I am applying the advanced action.
Pleae help me to resolve the issue.
Regards,
Anil Kumar Bakshi

I just set up the same toggle action but I had mine slightly differently set up so that:
If toggle == 0
Assign toggle = 1
Show img_1
Else
Assign toggle = 0
Hide img_1
This worked for me and clicking the button did not advance the slide timeline.
Do you have Pause After X seconds selected for the button properties under Timing accordion?
If your button is not pausing the slide and you allow the timeline to move beyond the button's active area (at the end of the slide or at the end of the button's duration on the timeline) then it will cease to work.

Advanced Table does not refresh after database level action

Hi,
I have a page which has an advanced table. I update the advanced table from the page do some validations, update some DB level columns(also part of advanced table) and see that the changes are saved to the DB but the advanced table does not show the updates done at the DB level.
I tried clearing the VO Cache and re-executing the VO but still it does not refresh the Advanced table data.
This is very critical requirement for the client, any inputs will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in Advance.
Here is the code snippet from my CO's processRequest:
OAApplicationModule am = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean);
OAAdvancedTableBean tblbean = (OAAdvancedTableBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("recasttable");
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tblbean.setRendered(true);
OAApplicationModule tblam = (OAApplicationModule)am.findApplicationModule("RecastLineAM1");
tblam.invokeMethod("initQuery");
tblbean.getTableData();
Here is my AM - initQuery() code:
public void initQuery()
//clearVOCaches("RecastLineEO",true);
clearVOCaches(null,true);
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public void init()
System.out.println("****************************executing...");
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if (tx.getTransientValue("RECAST_ID") !=null)
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System.out.println("recastId: "+ recastId);
setWhereClause("RECAST_HDR_ID = :1");
setWhereClauseParams(null); // Always reset
setWhereClauseParam(0, recastId);
executeQuery();
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hi,
This is how I am calling a DB package. the package does updates on the table. once done I am issueing a commit and requerying the data, however the vo is not getting refreshed.... Can someone point out what am I missing... why is the VO not getting refreshed....
This is very critical...
Thanks
Srini
public void validateRecast(String respKey)
OADBTransaction tx = (OADBTransaction)getApplicationModule().getTransaction();
Number recastId = (Number) tx.getTransientValue("RECAST_ID");
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Captivate 8 advanced actions not saving

I just upgraded to Captivate 8 today and was attempting to create a conditional advanced action. However when I save the action, it doesn't save so the action remains blank. The advanced action was on click, image disappears, and user jumps to a different slide. Like Jeopardy. They answer the question and come back to a main screen where the original link image disappears. Why won't it save?

I don't think that's it. I put together the scrip (which is a simple one, only 3 lines) and click "Save Action." The save action button doesn't grey out or anything. Then when I try to move to a different AA it asks if I want to save before leaving. If I say yes, it says an AA with that name is already created. But when I go to open the original script, it's blank. I've tried renaming things, selecting different items, and am getting nowhere. It's the craziest thing!

Advanced actions not working in project preview or publish

I have a project with advanced actions which work fine in single slide preview but which don't work at all in project preview or when I publish. To make it even worse a slide on the same project I did earlier works ok when previewed. Very confused! Any suggestions? I have used the force publish option and all the timelines look the same as the successful slide as far as I can see so I have no idea.

Hi Lilybiri,
sorry for the delay in replying, I've been tied up elsewhere. I'm using CP7. My advanced action is simply meant to show one image after another on click of a button. It works perfectly for the first instance and then doesn't for the next two. The only difference between the slides is that the latter two have the images stacked on top of each other whereas the first slide has the images placed separately on the slide. This is the advanced action for the first slide:
The decisions just refer to the images. And this is the timeline:
Compared to one of the slides that doesn't work (no images appear)
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Advanced Action jumps Quiz slide pause point

Hello,
I have a project I have asked questions about in a previous discussion but as this is a new difficulty so I have started a new discussion.
The project in made up of only quiz slides and on each quiz slide there are:
1 - 4 text boxes that are controlled by advanced actions with ss set as buttons....this part is working great.
the quiz ...standard stuff
and audio ...not working
I created 2 groups and 1 ss set to function as a button. Group 1 has an arrow and says "Play Audio" Group 2 has a square and says "Stop Audio". On the first slide the action works great...just as I would like it to work. After answering the question you then continue to the next slide and the audio works for three clicks...click to play, click to stop and then if you click again the slide jumps the pause point on the question slide and none of the buttons work on the slide at all. It does not make a difference if you start the project form the beginning or from the middle, the problem is still the same. The first slide works just as it should and the second slide jumps the pause point and you are shut down and can not continue. I am not able to click the submit, answer the question...nothing. Any insight would be very much appreciated as once again, I am stuck. I am not sure if the problem is caused by the fact that it is a quiz slide and there is something about the quiz slide itself that is causing the problem. Or ... more likely, I am just missing something.
Thank you.
This is what the buttons look like.
Play Pause Action:
http://captivatecrazy.blogspot.ca/2012/09/play-and-pause-audio-using-advanced.html
Advanced Actions and Groups, this was so helpful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sy09xPoP69A

You didn't watch the other video? It was about playing audio as well...Have also a long blog post about possible scenarios to play/pause audio. It is different, because it is about a real pause, not about replaying an audio clip as in your example:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/toggle-shape-buttons
Question slides are a different beast, you have always to be very careful there. I blogged about buttons on question slides:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate
The question slide objects have highest priority. I should explore this more in depth, but my intuition tells me that perhaps clicking on your shape button triggers the action that is performed as second step on the Question slide (press Y or click on the slide). Does it happen before of after the user clicks the Submit button?
Lilybiri

How do I use the same execute advanced actions?

I am using captivate 5, windows 7
I created a slide with several click boxes and images. I name them, for example,
Click Box A Image A
Click Box B Image B
Click Box C Imsge C
And perhaps Images D, E, F
I created Advanced actions, for example,
Show_Image_A - which shows A and hides B and C - and shows Image D
Show_image_B - which shows B and hides A and C - and shows images D and E
Show_image_C - which shows C and hides A and B - and shows Image F
Then On Success for each of the click boxes, Execute advanced actions as below:
Click Box A - Show Image A
Click Box B - Show Image B
Click Box C - Show image C
Works fine.
My problem: I want to repeat this slide's actions again (and over and over) with new images, same actions of click boxes. SO - I thought I could copy it and paste it where I wanted it. I want to use it again later in the same project - and I want to be able to use it again in anothe project. I was hoping NOT to have to rebuild the slide every time, but here's what I am seeing:
The click boxes and images are in the duplicated slide - BUT they all have different names - no longer my named Click_Box_A, but Click_Box_<number>, etc each time I paste it has a new number. SO - my advanced actions still say Click Box A, Image A, etc - and obviously they're not recognized here. SO - my actions don't work here.
It is painful - and tedious! - to change the names of all the objects and then change the names in the advanced actions. There MUST be a way to do this that I don't know about?
Please can someone help me?
THANK YOU!!

Hello,
You cannot copy an advanced action from one project to another, that is really a pity. Please, if you have time, fill in a feature request!
If the actions are always similar: why not create a template with the advanced actions you mostly use and create future projects on that template. I do it that way for the advanced actions I'm using often.
Lilybiri

Text Entry Box--Advanced Actions--Conditional Statement--Double quotes in literal input value

Hello forums,
I'm new to the forums (and Captivate in general), but I'm having a real problem carrying out a tutorial design and I think you may be my only hope. Let me explain what I want to do and the difficulty that I'm having:
I'm an instruction librarian at a university, and I'm designing an interactive tutorial for English 100 students to complete in order to become familiar with how to search the library catalog. What I've done is taken a screenshot of the catalog search page, made it the background of a slide in Captivate (vers. 6), and placed a text entry box over the search bar in the screenshot. The idea is for the students to conduct a simulated search by choosing one of three suggested search string formulations, and depending on the search string they enter, the tutorial will jump to a slide featuring a screenshot of what the actual search results would look like. The idea is to emphasize the use of keywords over full-sentence phrases, and the use of double quotation marks to enclose multi-word search terms.
So I've set the action for the TEB to "Execute Advanced Actions" and then created some IF/THEN statements in the "Advanced Actions" pop-up window (with action type set to 'conditional'). The script is such that if the student enters the first search option (how does sleep affect college students) in the TEB, the tutorial jumps to 1 slide, if they enter the second option (college students AND sleep), featuring a Boolean operator (AND), the tutorial jumps to a 2nd slide, and if they enter the third option ("college students" AND sleep) with the double quotes around "college students" and the Boolean operator, the tutorial should jump to a 3rd slide. This action script works fine for the first two input options, but I can't make it work for the third search option.
I think that it has something to do with the fact that the third input option features double quote marks, and this seems to throw off the script (I tried a quote-less input value for the third IF/THEN just to make sure that it would work jumping to the 3rd slide and it did), and I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get around this issue. Again, I need it to work so that if the student enters "college students" AND sleep, with the quote marks and the Boolean operator, the tutorial will jump to a slide showing the search results if those search terms were used in a real search of the catalog.
I'd be extremely grateful for any help that anyone here can give me, we've been trying to make our online tutorials more engaging and interactive (and therefore more interesting), and I think this would be a great way to teach students about using quotes in their catalog searches.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Andrew Wilk
College Library
UW-Madison

The tutorial is for a "how to use catalog searching" instruction in an undergraduate library session. We use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search terms, ex. to search for books about the sleeping habits of college students, I would enter "college students AND sleep." Because "college students" is a multi-word phrase to describe one concept, I need to put quotation marks around the phrase to prevent the catalog from searching for the individual words separately, so the most correct search becomes ["college students" AND sleep] with quotation marks around only "college students," a user-typed "AND," and the word "sleep" (no q-marks).
A colleague of mine worked out a pretty cool (if complicated) solution that I'll share if anyone is interested. Since the q-marks where the problem, we've set it up so that the TEB validates the response for the search string with q-marks around "college students." If they enter it correctly, the tutorial jumps to the corresponding slide. The attempt # is set to 1, and if the user fails to enter the validated phrase (they misspell or use one of the other response options) then the TEB is set to run an Advanced Actions Script in which the other two options are scripted in IF/THEN statements that cause, when the term is entered correctly, the tutorial to jump to their corresponding slides. We've created another tab of IF/THEN statements that say that if the response is NOT equal to one of these response options, then the slide restarts (technically the slide "jumps" back to itself and starts over) and the user gets another chance to start the cycle over again.
I know this is confusing (I had a really hard time explaining it in words), so if anyone is interested I could make a Jing video when I have some time.
Thank you for all your suggestions

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