Branching / Scenarios

Good morning! I'm relatively new to Captivate, but I'm trying
to create a branch and can't find a clean how-to...
Similar to a thread on this forum back in August, I'm trying
to create a demo wherein there are multiple viable paths, and
therefore on each slide (i'm using question slides- I do not want
to use buttons to create the branch) there is a best choice, an
acceptible choice, and a bad choice. I understand the 'choose your
own adventure' analogy, but my branch paths are red, green or
black- in the tutorial, they're blue... I know that means
something, though admittedly I don't know what it means, or if it's
important!
So far, I've gotten to the Advanced options, and I can direct
each answer to a particular slide, I guess my biggest
question/issue lies with the branch view not being consistent with
the tutorial. I get red/green lines, the tutorial shows blue lines.
I also get one linear representation with lines directing to
different slide while the tutorial shows more of a 'tree' view,
where there are multiple slides on any vertical axis... How do I
get my branching view to approximate the one in the tutorial, and
does it matter?
thanks in advance!!

Honestly, I opted for question slides because I used the
scenario wizard to self-learn how to do branching. That being said,
maybe another question I should ask is what differentiates a
question slide from a 'normal' slide? Which would be appropriate
for the following scenario?
Right now, I'm practicing- so the scenario I'm trying to
create isn't going to have any *real biz application, but beacuse
it seems each situation will vary, here's what I'm trying to
create...
Project: The Date
Your Mission: Ask Her Out, Impress The Girl, Get The Kiss
1st Question: How will you ask her out
A. Call her on the phone (result: she accepts the date; move
directly to Impress the Girl)
B. Slip her a note that says "I think ur pretty. Will U go
out with me? Yes_____ No_____" (result: Yes____ No__x___; move
directly to No Date)
C. Ask your friend to ask her friend to ask her out (result:
your friend is dating her friend; move to Second Chance to Ask Her
Out)
And so forth- if you select option C, and play your cards
right from that point forward, you'll eventually be taken to the
same Impress The Girl slide as if you selected option A directly.
There are other divergent points, but ultimately the goal is to Get
the Kiss, so the end slide will either be No Date, or Smoochy
Smoochy.
If it's possible to score it (like, 10 points for A, 0 points
for B, and 5 points for C), that's be pretty cool, but right now as
a self-teaching application, I'd mostly like to get those branches
right. So what if I take scoring *completely out of the picture- is
it possible to get those branches, and moreover to get the branch
view to be tree-like?

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I know you can use the "Go to the slide last visited" option, but that only works for once level of branching. If you use the same button command on the previous slide it won't take you back up the branch, it will go forward to the slide you were just on.
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The way this sort of thing is handled in other software applications (not elearning applications) is to build arrays that record the user's path and then step back through them.
Captivate's Advanced Actions do not provide any way to build arrays, only standalone variables.
Why do your users need to retrace their steps through the branching? What is the objective?

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Hello,
This seems more .NET issue so please confirm if you are suing above code in sharepoint or not.
For you issue, you can first convert in HTMl then convert HTML to PDF to support all office versions.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1920685.aspx?Export+grid+into+Powerpoint+2010
Hemendra:Yesterday is just a memory,Tomorrow we may never see
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Which variables for branching scenario assessment based on advanced actions:

I want to be able to use branching on fuzzy questions that don't have a clear correct answer, but have some answers that are better than others (to be more authentic). Has anyone had success with using the variables in advanced actions to provide a branching scenario assessment?
What I want to do is use one multichoice question with partial scoring, each of the 4 possible answers has a different points values (best choice to worst), the value adds to the quiz total score for assessment /feedback purposes, but the next slide is determined by the points gained in that quiz slide (e.g. if they gained 10 points for picking the best answer the condition is set to variable =10 then jump to slide x).
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You do not explain what you tried. For such a scenario I would create a
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My clients want very much to know that the students are going through each slide when the complete a lesson. However, in the lesson, some content is presented as both "demo" -- watch how it is done or "try it yourself" where the interactions are added and the user must complete the actions. We have a branching scenario set up so they could do one or the other or both. However, in the TOC, they do not get credit for passing the lesson unless they do both. Is there anyway that we can set up these slide groups "demo" and "try" as optional so that they get credit for doing one or the other? We currently have 3 buttons on the page "Demo", "Try it yourself" or "Continue"
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If you want to test this out, you can download a trial version of TickTOC widget here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets
More info on how this widget works can be found here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/ticktoc
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I just upgraded to version 8, hoping for a solution.
I know that I can write an Advanced Action for every slide like this:
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I was hoping that I could make this work:
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I have a request to do a quiz where the incorrect responses
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For Multiple Choice questions, you can add feedback that is
specific to the answer chosen (I don't think you can do this with
any other question type). This might get you a good distance into
your solution. Create a multiple choice question and for each
answer you type in, click on the Advanced... button under the Add
and Delete buttons. Check the Advanced Answer Options box at the
top and the Show Feedback Message box at the bottom. This will add
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can edit each of those fields with the specific feedback for that
answer.
I haven't been able to do this in such a way that you are
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answer and get the feedback as to why that answer is wrong, the
next thing you click moves you on to the next slide. We've gotten
around that by making multiple copies of the question slide. Kind
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I don't know the answer to your results page question if
choosing "Show score at end of quiz" in the settings in Preferences
didn't work.
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Hi,
I'm still new to Captivate, and here's what I'm trying to do.
I'm using questions as formative, individual questions in a branching scenario, rather than as graded questions. When a student submits an incorrect response, I want to say, "Actually, the correct answer is X." Or, "That's correct." And include some "Feedback on the page." Fine; I know how to do that.
And, I want it to branch. So, after seeing the appropriate caption, clicking still takes the user to page B if their answer was incorrect, but to page C if their answer was correct.
I can figure out how to do the branching or the captions but not both. The only way I figure to do this at all is to not use captions but just branch based on the student's submission and take student to a Pre-A or Pre-B page that includes all the content from the question slide (except I can't use the "radio buttons"), painstakingly recreated, plus the caption and feedback text. Then the user could Continue to Page A or Page B. That seems like so much more work than should be needed.
Suggestions so welcome! Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for asking.
I'm using CP4.
By radio buttons, I mean the choices in the regular multiple-choice question. (I'm not doing anything with image buttons or Flash button widget.)
I'm not sure what your second question quite means. Let's see if this helps. I can work out branching using the Advanced Options for each answer choice, or, in this case, via just if Correct or if Incorrect, as I simply have two paths, one for Correct and one for Incorrect, regardless of which incorrect response a student submits. I've accomplished branching using either of these methods.
What I'm trying to work out is that Captivate seems to allow that a Success caption or a Failure caption appears after the student Submits a response. Great. I want that, so I can indicate if their answer is correct or not. After that, however, I want the student who submitted a correct response to branch to Location A, while the student who submitted an incorrect response to branch to Location B.
Maybe I do need a click box. Do I need two click boxes, one for each case - Success and Failure? Does that mean that I'd need to put the Success caption in one place and the Failure caption in another place, and create a click box for each? (RIght now, I have them appearing in the same place, because they're never both present. It makes more UI sense.) Can I then control it so that a clickbox appears either only IF its respective caption appears?
Thanks again!

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Hi,
Is there a better way that what we are doing becuase we ware wasting time and we put this process in pace in CP 5.5 and want to know what we can better in CP7.01
We want to have our slides pause at the middle of each slide
Currently
- Our navigation buttons are on the master slide . These are custom static widgets to do forward and back because interactive objects cannot be put on master slides
- so we add a hidden object on each slide to pause
We have complicated branching becuase
- we have glossaries and help
- branched scenarios
So we really need this to work releiably
Problems
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- we make mistakes using the variable recording the previous viewed slide
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regards Paul

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http://blog.lilybiri.com/why-i-like-shape-buttons-captivate-6
http://blog.lilybiri.com/toggle-shape-buttons
http://blog.lilybiri.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate
And I presented a webinar, info and link can be found here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/09/training-lilybiris-favourite-shapes-to-trigger-ad vanced-actions.html
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There is a slide that includes a question "Do you currently
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Sorry, but Captivate doesn't provide any functionality for
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Your only option is to create a decision tree (in Visio or on
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possible contingency. You might be able to reduce the complexity of
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