Advanced Actions in Captivate 7

I have Captivate 6.0 but is it possible in version 7 to insert a new decison in Advanced Actions but you get to choose the insertion point for the new decision?
In version 6.0 Captivate inserts the new decision at the end of the decision block. I'd like to insert a new decision at the beginning. I don't see how this is possible in version 6.0. but can anyone tell me if this is possible in version 7.0? Thanks!

I have an unrelated question:
In Advanced Actions using Conditional actions, when I compare the text in a TEB to a string, sometimes Captivate puts the string in "quotes" and sometimes it doesn't. Do you know why and does this have any impact on the comparison?
E.g. Text_Entry_Box contains "Abc" vs.
Text_Entry_Box contains Abc

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How can I display the elapsed time of the course using Advanced Actions in Captivate?

I have a Captivate course which is approximately 35 minutes in length. On each slide I would like to display to the user, the current elapsed time.
EXAMPLE:
25/35 minutes complete
The 35 would remain static, so I have been working with the elapsed time system variable in CP: elapsed:$$cpInfoElapsedTimeMS$$
I can't seem to get the variable to properly display the elapsed time in minutes, rather than miliseconds. Attached is a screen shot of my advanced action.
Can anyone provide guidence regarding how I should structure this differntly?

I talked about that Timer widget in that blog post and pointed to another one:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/timer-widget-to-stress-your-learners
If you are on CP7, you'll have this widget also as an interaction, which means it is compatible with HTML5 output. Amd there is also an hourglass interaction, with similar functionality but... did not blog about that one
PS: Check Gallery\Widgets to find all widgets. Default path is set to Interactions

Cannot Edit Advanced Action (Captivate 5)

One of my projects has a conditional advanced action that Captivate will not let me edit. I can select its name in the "Existing Actions" drop-down list in the "Advanced Actions" window, but then neither the "Action Name" field nor the other fields in the window get populated with the values for that action.
I tried restarting Captivate in case that resolved the problem, but it did not.
Can anyone suggest a solution?

Hello,
About your point 1: do not even know what you are pointing at, never keep track of that kind of numbers (not an accountant) because I feel them being unimportant. I'm happy if I can help some users out with issues and do learn a lot myself by trying to solve problems.
Thanks for introducing a feature request. Of course I have done that multiple times concerning advanced actions. I also would like to have a search and replace function (for object ID's principally), to add comments, to print (not possible directly now) and to be able to construct a library with actions that can be opened like the external library of another project. Those are only a few of my long wish list.
I'm glad that my idea for re-using scripts with a template has at least one 'follower'. If you have time, would love to see your comment on that particular blog post, could be inspirational for other users. Here is the link:
Template for reusing scripts
Lieve

In Advanced Actions, what does the Pause action do? (V7)

I see in the help that a new action has been added to Advanced Actions in Captivate V7, but I can't find out how to use it. What does Pause do? Can I specify a pause time?
Here's what i'm trying to do. I want to click a button to make a graphic appear, and i want it to disappear after a few seconds. I tried to do it in Timing with "Display For" and 5 sec., but that didn't work. Will the Pause in an Advanced Action do this? ( show, pause, hide)

Hello and welcome,
The new command Pause (asked for it, as for some others) is just an easier way of setting cpCmndPause to 1, nothing more. It has no parameters, you cannot time the pause at all.
Lilybiri

Problem with Showing Next Button in Advanced Action

I'm having problem using advanced actions (using Captivate 5.5) to show the next button after the user clicks three other buttons on the page. I followed the directions here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/11/enabling-forced-navigation-for-your-interactive-s creens-in-adobe-captivate-5-5.html and also here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4046433#4046433, although obviously not accurately. Here are some screen shots to show what I've done.
From the slide properties panel
The SSB_Completion Action
The Scope Action (the schedule and budget actions follow the same format)
And the slide timeline
Thanks for any help - I'm about ready to pull my hair out with this.
Debbie

The check, conditional action is triggered on entering which slide? If it is the same slide as where the buttons with the standard actions sit, this condition will never result in True.
I just answered a similar question in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4454104#4454104
I think the best way is to have your present SSB.... action integrated in the different actions triggered by the buttons. Or is this not what you want: to have the Next button appear at the moment that the three other buttons have been clicked?
Lilybiri

Edit Actions and Advanced Actions in some kind of text editor

Is there any way to edit Actions and Advanced Actions in some kind of text editor?
The built-in GUI is fine for little tweaks, but trying to use it for anything real is a almost impossible.
Can Creative Suite open a Captivate project and give access to the Actionscript in the project?
Is there a text file someplace that can be extracted, editted, and put back in?

Hello,
has the feature to edit Actions and Advanced Actions using a text editor been implemented into the new Captivate 7?
I'm facing the problem that I have very extensive Advanced Actions in Captivate in which I want to change a variable x into a variable y. Doing it manually would take about a day or so.
It would be great if there was some kind of workaround.
Regards

Advance Actions

Hello All I need so help on advanced action in captivate 6. On my slide I have three rollover areas and a button. I want the button to be activated once the leaner has rolled over all three areas. I know I have to create 3variables and set the value to 0. Then write the advanced action using the conditions tab. I can't link the variable to the rollover area and not sure how to write the condition. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Thank you for your suggestion. I've attempted doing what you said this morning but nothing seems to happen. My advanced action script is as follows: If Homebtn is equal to 1 and Stylus is equal to 1 and Backbtn is equal to 1 Action Show DeviceOnBtn My Variable is as follows: Name: Homebtn Value: 0 In the slidelet for the "Homebtn" I have (attached the variable) on rollover "Execute Advance Action" script "Homebtn" this is the same for all three slidelets on my "DeviceOnBtn" I have on success "Execute Advance Actions" and then the advanced action script above. I can't seem to work this not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help much appreciated please!!!!!!!!
Im not sure but formatting is allover the place on this. I have attached picture to clarify.

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?

Can I create a javascript in a captivate advanced action

Hello all:
I am just getting the hang of Advanced Actions and I am having trouble trying to utilize the Javascript Window.
I have three captivate variables v_Var1, v_Var2, and v_Var3.
I am trying to create a JavaScript function in the Javascript window to concantonate these into one variable v_AllResponses.
Is there an example of such a script out there and can you point me to it?
I have looked but so far no luck.

You can define a variable to contain a space and use that in your Advanced Action:
The SPACE variable has a default value of (see screenshot).
That default value is the HTML for a space character.
Not too many people know this, but you can add limited HTML tags to a caption by using Cp variables. Here are the supported tags:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextField.ht ml#htmlText
This opens up a wide range of possibilities for dynamic text formatting of your variables. For example, using a single text caption, you could change the color of the text to red or green depending on the tags you surround your variable with DURING RUNTIME.
Jim Leichliter

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!

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.

BUG: Advanced Actions duplicated when creating NEW PROJECTS FROM TEMPLATE using Adobe Captivate 8.

Need: CREATE NEW PROJECTS FROM TEMPLATE using Adobe Captivate 8.
Problem: NEW PROJECT (.cptx) duplicates the Advanced Actions originally configured within TEMPLATE FILE (.cpt.).
For example: Template file (.cptl) advanced action "_initializeModule" gets duplicated as "_initializeModule1", "_initializeModule2", "_initializeModule3" within NEW PROJECT. FYI, the original "_initializeModule" advanced action still appears.
MAJOR BUG, what the heck is going on?!?!!! Planning to deploy this template file to use for multiple courses with multiple users, this WILL cause epic confusion across the board.

Similar problem, think they are working on it as well: when dragging a shared action from an external library to a slide or object event, and that action is using a parameter that was already created for another shared action, there will be a new parameter created which really screws up the shared action contrary to this problem. Tip: for the moment do not drag shared actions from an external library immediately to an event, but drag them first to the Library: Reuse Shared Actions in other Projects - Captivate 7 vs. 8 - Captivate blog

Advanced action appears looped -Captivate 6

I have an HTML5 project that links out to another URL page on about 5 slides. Jim was kind eough to inform me that there is a known issue about Captivate linking to URLs that are not hand typed. All of the URLs are hand typed, and all advanced actions are set up so that on the last click fo the button, the slide should advance to the next one, and the URL should open in a new tab (in that order) . This happens perfectly on the first set, but the second set doesn't advance the slide, it just opens the new window. If you return to the captivate window and click the next button it respawns the new window, never going to the next slide. I've cleared the project on my webserver, forced slides to be-recreated, rebuilt the advanced action, all with no effect. Anybody else running into anything simiilar?
This is a bit of a show stopper for me since I don't want to just have to code a button - my hope was to make this run like a native iPad app, but if I can't take away the chrome because users have to have it to navigate it can't be done.

well, I changed it to -
function open_win()
window.open("http://cs.franklin.edu/~heinem01/quizpages/wings.html")
function forward() {
cpCmndNextSlide = 1;
the first part worked (it opened the new window) but it didn't forward the slide.

Captivate 7 - Copying slides with Advanced Actions

Hello,
I have a number of slides that I want to copy and paste into a new project. Many of these slides have click to display type advanced interactions. When I copy and paste the slides into a new project, the advanced interactions don't seem to copy over. Does anybody know how to copy and paste slides into a new project along with the advanced interactions so that I don't have to recreate variables and interactions? I tried following Adobe Captivate Help, but got lost.
Thanks!

Rod, you're a lifesaver! I figured out the update part and the advanced actions look like they all work. You just saved me about a thousands hours worth of work. Thanks

Captivate 8 responsive project with advanced action to show/hide interaction

I'm finding that responsive projects in captivate 8 don't properly show interactions upon show/hide. Is anyone else having this issue and knows how to fix it?
I've tried to not group items together but the interaction still doesn't appear.
I've tried placing the show hide information into an advanced action instead (actually my project requires this) and it doesn't work, nor does it work like in the screenshots below.
I've tried to duplicate this in a non-responsive project and it works which makes me think this is only related to responsive projects.
Thoughts? Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!

I believe the problem is still present in Captivate but I've read a post on these forums that went some way to explaining what is happening and a possible workaround. The issue is in the method that Captivate writes HTML5 and the order in which it displays elements on the canvas. I had a quick look to try and locate the post but without any luck. The person who posted it did give instructions on how to resolved the issue 'relatively' simply by modifying the HTML5 code once you had published the files. I did say 'relatively' simple because this solution does require some knowledge of HTML5.
Sorry that I could not be of much more help and I do hope that my recollection of this possible solution is correct.

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