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I'm using Captivate 4 with imported PowerPoints. I want to link from one slide to a "hidden" resource slide that has supplemental material, and then return directly to the previous slide. "Show and return." Easy in PowerPoint. Apparently not so easy in Captivate.
As part of this effort, I want to hide the Captivate playbar when opening the resource slide, and get the playbar back when I return to the previous slide (via a custom "return" button). I can hide the playbar with On Slide Enter: Assign > CpCmndShowPlaybar > With > 0. Fine. But when I return to the previous slide, the playbar remains hidden.
OK, makes sense, I need to turn it back on. I then add On Slide Exit: Assign > CpCmndShowPlaybar > With > 1 to the resource slide. But that doesn't bring the playbar back. I also add it to the previous slide. Doesn't bring the playbar back.
How do I get that playbar back?
Side issue: So I figure, maybe I have to do a On Slide Exit: Multiple Actions, and include both the "Assign with 1" with the "Return to previous slide" action. And get this -- I cannot ADD the Assign action to a multiple action. Or rather, I can add it, but it won't stay after I click OK. I re-open the Multiple Actions dialog, and the Assign action has disappeared from the list regardless of whether it was one of many, or the only action entered. Bug or feature?
Any insights appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,
I was a bit puzzled because you told that on exit you cannot change the value of the system variable cpCmndShowPlaybar and I tried it out with Multiple actions (that are not always to be trusted to my experience). And I could add the assign statement? And it even worked: I have 3 slides, on exit of the first I hide the playbar and jump to slide 3, on exit of slide 3 I show the playbar and jump to slide 1. Only difference is that I tried it with simple slides, not with PPT-imported slides. Seems strange, sorry this doesn't help you at all.
Lilybiri

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