Captivate 5.5 issue with finding external files

Question

I have a project where I am trying to have a swf open another document (pdf, ppt, etc.).  What I am having an issue with is Captivate does not see the files if they are not in the same directory as the swf.  I have tried multiple options.  I can not have a drive letter involved as this is a mobile file which will be run off of a USB drive.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi there
I'm not sure what you are experiencing here. How exactly have you tried to path your links? If you know the "HTML Shorthand" of accessing files it should not be a problem. Captivate won't need to "see" the files. Certainly plopping all the files together is the simplest (and most often recommended) way of working, but as long as you know how to use what we call "Relative Addressing", things should work fine.
So if you want a structure like this:
Captivate SWF Folder
** SomeSWF.SWF
** SomeSWF.HTM
** Standard.JS
And maybe you want a folder named PDFS that would make the structure look like this:
Captivate SWF Folder
** SomeSWF.SWF
** SomeSWF.HTM
** Standard.JS
** PDFs
**** SomePDF.PDF
The link inside Captivate would simply look like this:
PDFS/SomePDF.PDF
Or maybe you have a folder named PDFS that you want at the same level as the Captivate SWF Folder so the structure looks like this:
Captivate SWF Folder
** SomeSWF.SWF
** SomeSWF.HTM
** Standard.JS
PDFs
** SomePDF.PDF
In that case the link inside Captivate would look like this:
../PDFS/SomePDF.PDF
Also, if you are testing on your local C drive, the links may not work because you need to asjust your Flash Player Global Security Settings and add the output folder as a trusted location.
Steps for doing that are at the link below:
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick
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