Continue Buttons & Jump to Slide buttons...

I have a presentation with 123 slides.
The presentation is a training module that consists of
submodules.
I have a menubuilder project that launches the main training
module.
The training module is published as one exe file.
The last slide at the end of each submodule has two text
buttons:
Continue, which is set to- On success 'Continue'.
Main Menu, which is set to- On success 'Jump to slide' 123
END,
which is the last slide in the project. Under project
preferences I
have set the project end options action to close project.
The two buttons work fine in preview mode,
but when published, the continue button works,
but the main menu button does not do anything.
Did I overlook something?
Thanks in advance.
Update- lesson learned?
I had originally created the first two Continue and Main Menu
buttons on slide 36.
I just copied and pasted the buttons from slide 36 on to the
slides at the other 5 places I needed the two buttons.
I guess this does not work, but I am not sure why. After
remaking the two buttons (in lieu of copy/paste) on the 5
additional needed locations, the presentation works. Is this common
behavior?
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I think you'll find this is by design.
Every object inside a Captivate movie has a unique ID. The slide number and even slide name that you give the slide are just labels assigned to the object. The object's ID is probably some randomly generated number that you never see. So if you've set up a slide action to jump to another slide in the original movie, there's no guarantee such a slide with the same unique ID will exist in the next movie that slide gets copied into.
So the developers of Captivate seem to have designed it so that copying a slide from one project to another will default back to certain settings that are safe.
Additionally, you will find that if you copy a caption or some other slide element from one project to another, Captivate will rename the Item Name. This is once again to prevent conflicts where more than one item in a movie might end up with the same ID and cause instability.
So, although the way Captivate is designed may mean extra work for you when you copy slides across, it will prevent your movie from becoming corrupted or unstable.

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Hi there
Actually I do believe there is a way to make the behavior what you want. But I'll address your issue for making things known to Adobe first. Adobe has something called the "Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form" that they monitor. So you use that. (Link to that is in my sig line)
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Hi Cherry_t and welcome to our community
I've seen this behavior before. In the case I saw, the user
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Hi there
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Hi there,
Having some significant difficulties in Captivate 3 recently
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though in preferences I've set pass/fail preference for it to jump
to different slides depending on success or failure. I have tried,
literally, everything I can think of but it refuses to work.
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Hi J
Sorry that didn't seem to work for you. Hopefully someone
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Until that happens, you (as well as anyone else seeing this
behavior) should report it to Adobe as a bug.
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here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
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I'm experiencing a functionality issue with the "Continue"
button on the Quiz Results slide:
Situation 1: After initially completing the quiz, I need to
click the "Continue" button on the Quiz Results slide only once to
advance to the next (and last) slide in the quiz movie. This is
fine & works as I would expect.
Situation 2: After initially completing the quiz, if instead
I choose to review the quiz, later when I get to the Quiz Results
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CapManZ,
Whether the Continue button on the Quiz Results slide
requires one or two clicks is mysterious indeed. See
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=67&catid=464&threadid =1302278
for another discussion about its misbehavor.
Actually, the number of clicks required depends on how long
you wait after the Quiz Results slide appears, prior to clicking
the Continue button. In your situation 1 you probably answered
questions rather than using the skip button, so you viewed the
question slides for a while prior to arriving at results. In your
situation 2 you probably used the Skip button to zip through the
slides to return to the results screen. Try this. In situation 2,
when you get to the Quiz Results slide, instead of clicking the
Continue button, go get a cuppa joe and then see if a single click
will work. If so please let me know.
I've experimented with a Captivate 2 multiple choice quiz in
a slide show that contained only 10 questions and the Results
slide. I added a text caption with fade in and fade out enabled
(the default) to the Results slide. I found that after the caption
fades in, one click on the continue button advances the slide. So I
used the caption's appearance to help measure the timing.
In the tests below I skipped as rapidly as possible, pausing
at various slides to see how it affected the single click
threshold.
Skip all slides: 28 sec
View slide 1 for 60 sec and then skip: 28 sec
Skip to slide 5, pause 30 sec, and then skip: 13 sec
Skip to slide 10, pause 30 sec, and then skip: 2-3 sec
Answer each slide (took more than 30 sec): 2-3 sec
Skip all slides, click Continue as fast as possible: 2-3 sec
I also reduced the number of question slides in the quiz and
skipped all slides.
7 questions: 18 sec
3 questions: 7 sec
I believe the threshold value (the duration required before
clicking the Continue button advances to the next slide) is
composed of two durations which add together to determine the
threshold. The Result's slide's timeline probably sets the
threshold's lower limit. Clicks prior to 3 seconds are ignored.
Time per slide and number of slides left to go sets the upper limit
for the threshold. The slower the movement, the lower the
threshold.
Several conclusions:
This probably isn't a situation in which the first click is
ignored. Instead the first click reduces the threshold's value to
the lower limit. The second click would then typically occur after
3 additional seconds, particularly if the user is surprised that
the first click didn't work and pauses slightly. A very fast
additional click on the Continue button is ignored as well.
Long quizzes will cause more complaints about the issue
because of what you experienced. It typically takes longer to
answer the quiz than review it.
Perhaps there's a workaround that would alert the user that
the Continue button is ready for clicking. I'm thinking that since
the text caption fade-in coincides with being ready to continue, an
image or the like might do the trick. Any suggestions out there?
Humm, a better alternative might be to show some images of
snacks on the results slide background. Through suggestive selling,
the user realizes it's time for a break and clicks Continue after
returning with that cuppa joe. And the sound you hear? It's the
Captivate developers giggling if they read my conclusions. Too bad
they're mum, since some real info might make it easier to make
Captivate behave. Ah well.
Phil

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Hi jwcrews and I too welcome to our community
Hopefully Andrew won't mind my offering up something here.
My last Captivate class had a student that reported her
project was behaving in a similar manner. Additionally, I've seen
other posts here that suggest the same thing. Multiple clicks to
continue, etc.
Does your results slide contain audio? If so, what we found
as a potential issue with my student was that the Continue button
waited for the audio to complete before moving on.
If your results slide has no audio, one way to try and
overcome the long wait is by positioning the mouse pointer over the
pause point. Wait until the pointer changes to the left/right arrow
(indicating you may click and drag) and adjust the pause to perhaps
.2 seconds. Then drag the duration of the results slide to perhaps
.4 seconds.
If your results slide does contain audio, one possible
workaround would be to create a totally new blank Captivate
project. Size it to the minimum size. I believe that would be 100 x
100 pixels. Add the audio to that and publish as a .SWF. Then drop
the .SWF into your results slide (Insert > Animation...). I'm
thinking this would somewhat abstract the audio from the timeline
of the Results and possibly overcome the timing issue.
Please keep us posted on what you find! Also, I again offer
apologies to Andrew for my unsolicited intrusion in the thread.
Sincerely... Rick

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I really hope there's something easy I'm missing here. I've
created a quiz with 25 questions. I don't have it reporting to an
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Hi J
Sorry that didn't seem to work for you. Hopefully someone
else will see it and maybe chime in with a suggestion.
Until that happens, you (as well as anyone else seeing this
behavior) should report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick

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Hi, I am using Captivate 4 on a Win7 computer. My problem is this. I have setup a 10 question quiz at the end of my module. On the results page (slide 37), I have a Review Quiz button, a Retake Quiz button, and a Continue button. The user can retake the quiz if she/he likes, but, regardless of whether the user passes or fails the quiz, they are to hit the "Continue" button which should jump to one of two slides (slide 38 for "Congratulations" or slide 39 for "Sorry, you did not pass") and then it is to automatically continue to the next slide that says "Thank you" (slide 40) and then the Captivate module is to close automatically. That's what is supposed to happen, and some of it does. However, here's what does happen. If the user passes the quiz and clicks the "Continue" button, everything works perfectly. But, if the user fails the quiz and clicks the "Continue" button - nothing happens. The "Continue" button fails to work. You click on "Continue" and nothing happens. It just stays on the results page. The slider does not advance either. However, if I delete the "Retake Quiz" button, then the "Continue" button works perfectly whether the user passes or fails. What is the fix here? I'm guessing you might need more information. I'l supply what I think might be relevant, below.
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Slides 27 - 36 : 10 slides of quiz question (one question per slide)
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Slide 38 : "Congratulations" slide for passing
Slide 39 : "Sorry, you did not complete this course..." slide for failing
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D. Sharma,
Hi, sorry, all this time when you were saying "it" I thought you were referring to the Captivate module that includes the quiz. I didn't realize you were referring to the quiz alone.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding,
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I want to set the quiz to make the student review the course before retaking the quiz, so I have
set off the 'retake quiz' button,
set the "failure" setting to jump to slide starting the course.
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And I have given 3 attempts.
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Thanks,
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Hi there,
Please try the following work around and let us know it worked for you.
Workaround 1:
1. Enable 'Retake Quiz' button from Edit>Preferences>Quiz>Pass or Fail.
2. Go to the Result Slide, Place the 'Retake Quiz ‘button in top of the Continue button.
Now whenever the user fails in the Quiz, 'Retake Quiz' button will take the precedence and allows the User to retake the Quiz, and once when the User passes the Quiz 'Retake Quiz' button will disappear and the 'Continue' button will display on the slide.
Workaround 2
Otherwise try inserting a slide after the Result Slide with Two buttons(Retake and Continue), Write a small Script(to show and hide the Continue and Retake button whenever user passes and fails the Quiz) and set it as the slide's 'On Enter' action.
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