Customizing the Progress Indicator

Question

How can you modify the Progress Indicator? I don't mean modify the font, I mean change the actual tex. For instance, the standards are either relative (Question 1 of 5) or absolute (Question 3). How do I modify the program to set the indicator to "Senario 1 of 5", or whatever else may be appropriate for my course?

Answer 1

Hello,
You did not tell the version of Captivate you are using? If it is Captivate 5, Rod is correct: you cannot change the words of the indicator. If it is CP4 you can, export Captions and the progress indicator is there, you can change and re-import.
If you are using CP5, you could use a dedicated master slide for question slides to add your own progress indicator. There is a system variable cpQuizInfoTotalQuestionsPerProject that gives you the total number of questions.  You'll need to do some work to have the current Question slide number. I would store the number of the last slide before the first question slide in a user variable (you can do this when entering that slide, using the system variable cpInfoCurrentSlide). As an example, I will label that user variable v_start. On entering each question slide you can execute an advanced action, with an Expression to calculate the current question slide number, and store that in another user variable v_current. For your use case, put this in a text caption on the question master slide:
Scenario $$v_current$$ of $$cpQuizInfoTotalQuestionsPerProject$$
I should perhaps blog this solution, it is pretty simple and saves time when you have a lot of question slides.
Lilybiri