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!

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Does anyone know about any books that are available for Captivate advanced actions? Other than the books by IconLogic.

Hi Melinda
Thanks so much for the information. I'm on a constant quest to determine where to focus my efforts. Unfortunately, I have so many different irons in the fire it's very difficult to get everything I WANT to get done actually done.
I asked because it's helpful for me to know what folks are looking for.
Your post is expecially interesting to me at this time because I concluded facilitating a Captivate class yesterday. I used the Iconlogic books for the class and I have to say that I totally skip the section where Advanced Actions are presented. Not that I didn't cover them, but that what is presented in the book seems too far removed for me. While the example certainly shows creating an Advanced Action, I really cannot see an everyday application for what was presented.
So what I do is to veer off on my own path and use some real world examples that are likely to be asked for. I say this because I've seen others ask for them here in the forums, so I'm guessing they are commonly desired actions.
For example, I worked the class through Hiding the playback controls for Question slides. Then through automatically enabling the Closed Captioning area when playback begins. Then we worked through hiding and showing some images on a slide using Click Boxes. From there, we worked through keeping the user from being able to move from the slide until all interactions had been successfully dealt with.
What seemed odd to me was that while that section often overwhelms some users, once we concluded with it, some of the class participants asked if they could see some "more complex" actions. I was stunned!
Anyhoo, thanks for the feedback! Rick
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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:
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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
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Advanced Actions not Working

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I'm sure there is an option or something I am overlooking but I just can't find it. Any help here would be appreciated. Also, I am publishing to Flash Player 10 (not sure if that makes a difference).

This doesn't sound like a bad install issue. Don't be too quick to reinstall an app when the content is playing fine for other users.
You say you're on IE9. Have you checked into the settings on your browsers to see if popups are disabled or there are security restrictions on what IE deems to be "active content".
Find another user nearby with IE8 and see if they can run your content. Your issue may be something local to your machine.

Advanced Action not applied if button is clicked 1time

I am making a game in Cap 5 that has a timer. We were given feedback that sometimes the timer stresses people out - so I added a Hide and a Show button on each slide. Clicking a button executes an advanced action that corrsponds w/the button name - but both buttons still appear the whole time. Example: The learner clicks Hide, the timer goes away, learner is kept on the same slide but they don't see the timer (all expected). Button for Hide is still there and does nothing if clicked. Learner clicks Show button and the timer is shown (expected), but the timer is reset (not expected). Lesson stays on that slide (expected). Learner re-clicks hide and the timer is hidden (expected). Learner re-clicks Show and the slide advances (not expected) and timer is reset (not expected).
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Bonus round: There is audio on this same slide - and it will not play when the slide advances from previous slide...though it will play if you click forward and then back to this slide. Any ideas there?
I'm happy to attach images - if you think this will help. Let me know what you need.
Thank you!

Most widgets execute their code when they enter "Runtime" on the Captivate stage. Essentially this can be translated as when the widget is shown on the stage then it will execute its code.
If you hide a widget and then show it again then the widgets code will execute once more as it figures it is entering "runtime" for the first time.
The best option is to add the "show/hide" buttons directly in the widget as you can keep the widget visible on the stage, but simply hide the timer movieclip. This would make sure that the timer is not reset.
www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more..

Advanced action not working on slide end

Hi,
I am new to captivate.
I am creating a toggle button. On clicking this button an image appear and disappear.
It works fine if I click the button before captivate slider reaches to its end. Slider stops moving when I click.
But if I try to click the same button after slider reaches to its end the button does not work.
I am applying the advanced action.
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Regards,
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I just set up the same toggle action but I had mine slightly differently set up so that:
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Hi Lilybiri,
sorry for the delay in replying, I've been tied up elsewhere. I'm using CP7. My advanced action is simply meant to show one image after another on click of a button. It works perfectly for the first instance and then doesn't for the next two. The only difference between the slides is that the latter two have the images stacked on top of each other whereas the first slide has the images placed separately on the slide. This is the advanced action for the first slide:
The decisions just refer to the images. And this is the timeline:
Compared to one of the slides that doesn't work (no images appear)
where again the decisions are just referrring to showing images, and the timeline for this slide:
As I said they both look the same to me apart from the layering of images on the second slide. Any help much appreciated!

Actions not saving all printer info

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Actions not saving adjustments

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There seems to be a bug in the Contribute Software, at least
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Captivate 5.5 Not saving simple edits

I am making simple edits in a project. After each change I click the save icon. But after closing the project and reopening it the edits are gone. Why? How can I make my edits stay?

Hi MarkTX66,
Welcome To Adobe forums.
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Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5.5 folder
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Repeating a script for an advanced action

I've created and advanced action for a click button. The properties are if the textbox is empty (v_null) to display a failure messge, if not display a correct message. The advanced action is working perfectly but it won't repeat it's self. So for example, if the user doesn't type something in text box and clicks the button, the script runs and gives the correct message, but if the user attempts to write someting after the first message pops in the text box and clicks on the button again, nothing displays. It's like the scipt will only run once.
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Applying Standard Advanced Action to a Button Type

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Kim,
Which version do you use? In Captivate 6 this is possible if you use Shape buttons: you can put them on the Main master slide (or on individual master slides), or time for the rest of the project. Blogged about them:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/why-i-like-shape-buttons-captivate-6
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