Backwards Branching

I have created a captivate file with a menu page leading to 5
scenarios.
The first time I take scenario everything works perfectly.
I return to the menu page to take the next scenario, but now
the next scenario does not work. The forward button gets inactive
on the second slide.
This happens no matter what order I try taking the scenarios
in.
To me it seems as if Captivate have problems, when you branch
say from slide 17 to slide 8, and then activate slide 25 from slide
8.
Has anyone experienced something similiar and might even have
a solution to may problem?

It sounds like you have at least one scored interaction in
your file. In such cases, Captivate considers it a "quiz" and
applies the rules found in the Quiz Preferences.
My suggestion would be to visit the Quiz Settings and make
sure the Required dropdown is set to "Optional - the user can skip
this quiz". For good measure, you might want to make sure the
"Allow backward movement" option is enabled.
If your menu consists of a series of buttons that link to
each scenario, an alternate suggestion would be to break your file
into 6 parts: a menu project and 5 separate projects, one for each
of your scenarios.
Then, use the "Open other project" option in the On success
dropdown for each menu button to open the individual scenario file.
By opening a scenario as a separate project, the scenario
file is "reset" each time, so the navigation will always work when
the user revisits, regardless of the Quiz Settings.
Cheers,
John

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Captivate newbie here...
I am trying to create a Jeopardy-style quiz in Captivate 3
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Hi ImagineerBill and welcome to our community
As you have seen, Captivate isn't too keen on allowing
Question slides to be presented in any order. I know this probably
sounds contrary to how random question slides work. But please hear
me out.
Captivate normally moves from slide to slide in a linear
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The answer to your actual question of "Can you branch from
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We see a similar issue erupt when you wish to have a common
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I think the earlier issue in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1944947#1944947 may solve this problem as well.
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*testing now*
I just tested to see whether the project plays through from Slide 1 -> video slide -> animated PPT -> Next slide in course without having to use next buttons and it played through perfectly. I may just set the next button to show up after the video plays/ animated ppt plays so the slides are consistent visually.
Thanks once again!

[svn:fx-4.0.0] 13530: DownloadProgressBar no longer moves backwards when RSLs are loading.

Revision: 13530
Revision: 13530
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-15 12:07:43 -0800 (Fri, 15 Jan 2010)
Log Message:
DownloadProgressBar no longer moves backwards when RSLs are loading.
QE notes: -
Doc notes: -
Bugs: SDK-25047
Reviewer: Alex
Tests run: checkintests, Joan ran cyclone
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25047
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/branches/4.0.0/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/preloaders/SparkDownloadProg ressBar.as

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