Captivate 8 - Next Button

i created a next button that I would like to be clickable only after a person has listened to / viewed the entire screen.
How do I do that?
Thanks,
Charlotte

Easiest way would be to make it not appear until at the very end of the slide.

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Let me show you what I'm trying to create here. Sorry I need specific instructions since I'm a newbie to Captivate and not familiar with conditions and advanced actions.
I am currently using normal buttons (not a shape button) to create my PREVIOUS & NEXT buttons. Based on your advice I will switch to shape buttons.
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What specifically do I select for the "On Enter" of each slide?
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We upgraded to Captivate 3 (love it) from Cap 1. We use a
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Interactive. Those courses are then imported to our Docent/SumTotal
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Hello Alfador,
I'm really sorry that this functionality has been removed from Firefox. I strongly agree with you when you say that Mozilla's seemingly arrogant insistence that it knows what people want better than they do. I think we made a mistake(personal opinion) nevertheless don't get disheartened and Mozilla does listen to its users(you all are not customers but we have a relation which is beyond ) . I will try to give your feedback to the team and they would be reading your feedback. Read [http://www.ghacks.net/2014/04/30/mozilla-removes-tab-close-button-preference-firefox/ this] for more information. I'm utterly sorry.
Have a good day.

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I would like to disable the next button on a slide until the user clicks on a certain object.
I also would like to show a warning pop up message that appears and disappear when the user clicks next button before clicking the required object.
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Jay

But you want the Next button to be visible?
What is that ' certain object'? Can you turn it into an interactive object, which is possible with smart shapes? Create a user variable v_click with a default value of 0. To the 'object' that has become interactive, add the standard action 'Assign v_click with 1'. The value of that variable will be checked in the conditional action that is attached to the Next Button.
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How do I make a learner attempt a question, without having the option of a 'Next' button?

Hi,
Is it possible to display the feedback option (learner selected) from a multiple choice Question by clicking the next (or previous) page button?
I have set the progress to the next page, with the option 'Attempts - 1' from the Assessment page. The objective of this exercise was to make the learner attempt the given multiple choice question, without the option of going back or forward during their first attempt. The first time the learner comes across this page, he/she has to answer the question to move forward. Once he/she has answered the question (right or wrong), then he/she will be able to navigate to the next and previous pages.
Is there any functionality where we can restrict the learner in taking up the test (compulsory), before navigating to the next page (using 'Next' button)?
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Emayavaramban M E

Don't show the Next button, but drag it under the Clear button if you have that one. Next button is really meant to skip an answer (which you do not want to allow) and during Review to make navigation possible. Since the Clear button will not be there during Review, then the Next button will become visible. Next is the new label (formerly it was labeled Skip). I explained some functionality of question slides in this post:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
It was written in the CP5.5 time, so you'll still see the label 'Skip' that is now replaced by 'Next'
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How can I grey out the 'Next' button until a user clicks 'Submit'?

Hi guys,
despite how I say it or display it in slides, users don't read the instructions before the quiz. This results in them doing the quiz and then asking me why they scored zero when they answered all the questions. So my question is, how can I disable/deactivate/grey-out the Next button until a user clicks Submit after answering the question?
I've got Captivate 6.1 on a Windows platform.
Advice appreciated.
Carl

Hello Rod,
thanks for your answer - I should think more laterally in future.
In my testing, another question has arisen - how do I get the Next button behind the Clear button? It sounds stupid but I can't get the Next button behind the Clear. I go in to the Master Slide, click on Next to highlight it, and then move it either by the mouse or with the arrow button so that it sits under the Clear button. While Next is still highlighted I click on the button in the toolbar 'Send selected objects backward' to be sure, so that I see 'Clear'. When I go back to the Filmstrip, all I see is 'Next' and when I preview the slides all I see is 'Next' - what am I missing here? What have I failed to do? What am I not understanding?
Advice appreciated.
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Problem with Back and Next Buttons: a solution?

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It is well known that including the Back and/or Next buttons in Captivate quiz questions presents real problems. I have come up with what I think to be a solution. It should allow one to include both Back and Next buttons, if one wants to do this. It involves doing the following:
With Question 1, do not include a Back button. (This is so that the quiz-taker cannot get out of the quiz scope in the forward direction.)
Create this advanced action: If cpQuizInfoTotalUnansweredQuestions = 0, then Go To The Next Slide (i.e. the results slide); Else Continue.
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A message to this effect: ‘You have not answered all of the questions. Please go back and complete all of them.’
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On Enter (i.e. on entering the slide being described here), Execute Advanced Action = the advanced action described in Item 2 above.
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I’m still testing this solution (or what I hope is a solution). If anyone else wants to try it, I’d be interested in hearing how it goes.
Best regards,
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Dear Lilybiri,
Thank you for your response.
1. 'I don't get it why you don't use the Submit All option?'
Submit All is fine in some cases. But it limits the options: the quiz-taker does not get immediate (question-by-question) feedback. So where immediate feedback is wanted, the Submit All option presents problems.
2. "Why do you need a Back button . . . ?'
a. The Back button is needed during Review. Otherwise, the quiz-taker can only review in one direction.
b. In some quizzes, the quiz-taker should be free to go back, whether to check earlier question slides (since the questions and/or responses can be relevant for the current question) or to re-read/re-hear information slides inserted between question slides.
But the more general issue is this. The Cp Back and Next buttons provide us with possibilities, with further options. Workarounds are available, such as not allowing backward movement and placing a Clear button over Next. But these workarounds limit the possiblities, i.e. the possibilities that are there—i.e. that Adobe puts there. It's not that we always need these possibliities. But neither should we be hindered from using them if we so choose—and especially when we would be hindered simply because Cp doesn't work as well as it should.
Kind regards,
Marvin

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Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
Need more information about this issue :
1) Does it happen on a specific project or with a sample project as well (2 or 3 question slides) ?
2) Which iPAD are you using and what is the iOS version ?
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I am using the quiz template.
I changed the text "Scene 1" to "Test."
I then added 3 more scenes. "Home" "Objectives", and
"Keywords." These last two scenes are only linked from the Home
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Thanks.

Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
Need more information about this issue :
1) Does it happen on a specific project or with a sample project as well (2 or 3 question slides) ?
2) Which iPAD are you using and what is the iOS version ?
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Adoeb Support

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Any thoughts on why this might be happening?
Thanks!
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Hi Jen
When you look at the properties of the button, is the pause enabled? (it's possible to turn it off and not allow it to pause the slide)
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/4454104#4454104
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Hide next button ?

Hello everybody,
I'm having some trouble to get my captivate project to work as we want.
let me explain : I have many Quizzes dispatched in many question pools, and I want to hide the 'next' or 'ignore' button while quizz is not complete, but the problem is that you can't decide to do anything differently between the quizz and the quizz review.
I tried to hide next button UNDER the send button so it appears when you reviw but unfortunately captivate developpers decided to put the nex button OVER the send button and give us no way to change that.
Does anyone have a clue to help me do what I want ? I don't understand how nobody ever came through this problem before.
I explain again : i want users not being able to skip questions, and i want them to be able to review quizz normally, but if you don't put the next button in the quizz it wont appear during review so users won't be able to rewiew it.
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The buttons on the Question slides have a stacking order, indeed. My tip is to hide the Skip button by dragging it under the Clear button, which is higher in the stack. Offering the user the ability to clear their answer in case they made a mistake is something rather different than letting them skip quesitons. And mostly I will rename the Skip button to Next, because it will be only visible during Review where it has the function of a Next button.
More details about the functionalities of Question slides and tweaking possibilities in two blog posts:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-part-2
I never understand why people 'hate' software, I really like Captivate because of its versatility.
Lilybiri
BTW Welcome to the forum, but please quit hating

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I'm trying to configure the "next" button on a slide to do two things:
1) launch a url in a new window
2) continue to the next slide
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edit: I'm using Captivate 3.
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