Captivate - Table of Content - Status

Hi there,
I have a Captivate course with a table of contents, I have a
transparent button on each page (to stop at the end of a slide) so
that the user has to use the navigation bar at the bottom to move
between pages. This is fine however I would like the status in the
table of contents to fill in when the user moves to the next
screen.
This does not happen unless you click the transparent button
to move to the next screen. Anyone know a way around this? Many
thanks

Suggestion is to rather let the user use the transparent
button at the end of each slide as the nav bar reads the slide
incompletely viewed if you use it to force a jump to the next
slide. Set button as text, not transparent with e.g. "Continue" as
the text. Infinite attempts allowed and set to "Continue" on
success. This allows the slide to finish playing and your "status"
will now complete.
Cheers
Andrew

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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:02:35 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Status Check on Table of Contents
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