Click Boxes in published PDFs

I have a click box that opens a linked PDF (not a url but an actual file) in my Captivate program. When I publish the Captivate program the SWF and HTML5 versions of the program will open the linked PDF file when I click on the click box. However, when I publish a PDF version of the Captivate program, the PDF version will not open the linked PDF file. I have put the PDF in the publish folder. Does the PDF version of not support the ability to use click boxes to open linked files?

Hi there
This is not a bug. Click Boxes are invisible by their very nature. They are invisible buttons.
Likely you feel into a trap of sorts. It seems you felt you would need to clear the visible option in order that your user would not see the Click Box.
In reality, clearing this option simply removes it from the slide during playback. Perhaps you are using Variables and Advanced Actions. Maybe you are making a game of sorts. You wish to allow clicking on a certain area, but having no action when the click occurs. UNTIL you click another area to make this one finally "clickable". You would accomplish this by using the Advanced Actions and Variables and turning visibility off and on. So when the user clicked another area, the action turned on visibility for the Click Box that was formerly hidden. And if the user clicked before and nothing happened, they click this time and see an action occur.
Make sense? I hope so. If no, perhaps I can toss together a small demo to show you.
Cheers... Rick
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Hello and welcome to the forum,
That is a whole bunch of questions in a terminology that is totally different from the Captivate terminology. I was wondering if you even have tried at least one tutorial coming with Captivate to have some idea of the way it works? I'm sure you can achieve this in Captivate, am prepared to help but, sorry to sound a bit rude, this is a user forum, not a Captivate training place. You can meet other users here that will try to help you, like you could help others.
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You can insert slide video (there is a fine tutorial about it), and eventually resize it and add Text captions.
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we are migrating from Centra/Saba LMS to Connect Pro LMS and while taking our "old" SCORM projects and posting them to the Connect Pro server we have encountered an issue...and the reason it's very hard to trouble shoot is that it's not all of the projects....??
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Do your published projects work outside of your LMS?
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Usually buttons and click boxes not working is because your slides are pausing before the button becomes active.
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URLs created in Click Boxes won't open in published file

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I have a series of click boxes in several modules that point to URLs. The links don't work in the published module, but work fine in preview mode (both preview and preview in browser). What can cause the links to not open?
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What do I have to do to ensure that my links work for everyone? These are training modules that are to be distributed to hundreds of users. I've not run into this issue with Captivate before, and this is the 8th training I've created with it.
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HI there
The option "continue playing project" needs to be DE-selected. With it selected, when your user clicks the Click Box, play will resume.
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I have a fairly large Captivate 3 file (131 MB .cp, 77 slides, most w/ audio) that I received from a vendor and am making some final edits. When I preview "next 5 slides" everything works great. When I publish though, the click boxes aren't working. I hear the click sound, but the action (continue, jump to slide, etc) does not occur. My gut feeling is that the file is fairly large and certain functions aren't being properly published. I have done all I know to reduce the size of both the .cp and published files (image quality, audio quality, deleting unused items, remove Adobe Connect features, resave w/ new name, etc).
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Hi there,
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I'm facing this problem since Captivate 2
but I just skip the link file part....
But now i doing my personal portfolio
which got huge link pdf and mpeg link file...
so I've tried Captiv8r method
but after publish into .exe
when i click the clickbox
i will appear ERROR sign and won't open the link pdf file
I've followed all the steps:
1. From Captivate, click File > Create a MenuBuilder
project...
2. Choose the "Blank Project" type and click OK.
3. Click Options > Project Options...
4. Change the Width to 320 and the Height to 200 (These are
the minimum settings)
5. Click OK to dismiss the Project options.
6. Click Insert > Clickbox...
7. You should see a "New Clickbox" dialog. There should be an
empty field labeled "Link".
8. Type only your document file name into the Link field.
9. Place a check mark in the "Save file with project" check
box, and click OK to dismiss the dialog.
10. You may see a warning dialog where MenuBuilder is
quibbling about the document not being present. Don't let this fool
you. Just click NO to advise you don't wish to browse for the file.
11. At this point you should see a small object on your
MenuBuilder. It should say "Clickbox" and be positioned in the
middle of the project.
12. Drag the sizing handles until it totally covers the area.
It should totally cover the whole area.
13. Now click the Export toolbar button.
14. MenuBuilder will then prompt you to save the project. Go
ahead and give it a name to appease it and click the Save button.
15. Select "Flash Movie" from the Export Options dialog and
click Next >.
16. Type a file name, choose a location to store the movie,
make sure the "View project after export" option is NOT selected,
then click the Finish button.
17. Now you may close MenuBuilder. You are finished with it.
We go back to Captivate.
18. In Captivate, open the slide with the link you wish to
use to open the document. The goal here is to click Insert >
Animation... and suck in the .SWF you created using MenuBuilder.
19.Then position that over an image or something that will
clue your user to click it.
I've follow all the step
but in NO.8 & No.9
If I just type the file name (and no link)
I can't place a check mark in the "Save file with project"
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The Adobe Flash file contains action script that reference
"root". This might cause the adobe captivate project to work
incorrectly or to stop working. do u want to continue to add this
file?"
and After burning in to CD
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and it will jump out a ERROR:F sign! (actually what is the
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After several times try and error
I've slightly make some changes at NO.8 procedure:
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link test.cp
The Adobe Flash file contains action script that reference
"root". This might cause the adobe captivate project to work
incorrectly or to stop working. do u want to continue to add this
file?" message
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publish file)
in any other computer!
I've checked the action script inside the link.swf which i've
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// Action script...
on (release)
var szArg = "D herbal tea Leaflet(C).pdf";
var szWindow = "_blank";
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Now it's no problem!
PS: U cannot open the link file under preview mode
it won't open
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Sorry my english is very poor
anyone don't understand can download my testing project from
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I would like to add a pop-up scenario review on a quiz page so that those doing the elearning can review the case history. I have the file saved as a pdf and it allows it to pop-up on other pages of the learning module but I can't figure out how to get this to work on a quiz page. This is the page I especially want them to have the information so that they can make an informed choice. Does anyone have a thought on how this can be done or what i need to do differently? Thanks

Hi Deb
This will be a bit on the cheesy side, but as your name infers you are from Wisconsin, that shouldn't be a big deal, no?
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or use this http://captivatedev.com/2012/08/07/adobe-captivate-6-x-widget-web-page-widget/ to display whatever you want created in Articulate, and/or else where.
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This is my first time on this forum and I'm fairly new to
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I am creating a movie that highlights accomplishments for a
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effects. I also have a click box positioned over a button image
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out the text and moving on to the next slide.
The slide does wait for the user to click the button before
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instructions fade out before the user clicks the button. Just to
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I managed to solve my problem (kind of) by using an invisible
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invisible in the editing environment, making it hard to spot.
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