Does daisy chaining affect assessment results?

I need to break a large Captivate 4 project file into smaller segments. If I daisy chain the resulting segments, what will happen to the assessment results from the first one or two segments. Currently, assessment results from all slides appear as a cumulative total after the quiz at the end of the tutorial. If I split the tutorial and daisy chain the segments, will the total assessment results still include assessment results from all slides in the daisy chain?
And what happens to the table of contents? Will every segment of the daisy chain have the same table of contents? If so, how would I update the table of contents if I needed to?

If you daisy chain a project then each of the projects will be a separate instance with no communication between them. Basically all assesments, TOC etc will only apply to that particular project so you wont be able to get a cummulative total for your assesments in the last chapter.
If you have access to a Flash programmer you could create functionality to store the quiz results from each chapter and then bring them all together in the last chapter.
As for the TOC there is no joy. Perhaps you could use the Aggregator function instead but the functionality and level of detail is not the same as with the TOC.
/Michael
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Hello,
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The firewire protocol allows for 63 or so devices to be chained together.
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Still, be aware that some drives do not play well with other drives on the same chain. I have a G-RAID 500GB drive that tanks when there is another drive connected. It runs fine when it is the only drive on the bus.
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x

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I'm wondering what the best way to setup a few external hard drives with the fireface 800, and the correct order.
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3- Would it be best to get a firewire hub?
4- Or what does everybody else do? Any guides or help would be much appreciated
Message was edited by: floatdownaliffy

Recording to a external audio drive is fine. It is in fact RECOMMENDED unless you have a second internal drive to record to as the internal bus is faster but is better than recording to drive your system is booted from.
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Daisy-chaining remote object calls

If you want to get data from a series of CFCs using remote
object, and each call depends on data received from the previous
call, you have to daisy-chain the functions making the calls,
otherwise there is no way to guarantee that the data is available
in time (in practice it is never available in time) because the
main thread races on regardless.
Now if you want to refresh parts of the data, or you want to
get a different set of data from one or more of the same CFCs, you
either can use the same functions and set up a different set of
daisy-chains with multiple boolean tests to see which chain of
links should be being followed ( and this ends up something akin to
a four-dimensional Hampton Court maze), or you have to duplicate
the remote calls over and over again in different sets of functions
and resultHandlers. Either way you end up with a horrible mess.
Is there any way to write a class that can suspend the main
thread, pending a remote call listener sending a resume main thread
event.
The other way that would work (though this would not be as
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"suspend the main thread, pending a remote call.." No. Can't
be done.
..."pass arguments into the resultHandler..." Yes, this is
done using the AsyncToken. (ACT pattern)
The send() methods returns an AsyncToken object. You can use
this dynamic object to add almost anything you want to the token,
including strings, and functions (google the term "closure").
As I am still not comfortable with anonymous functions, I
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Daisy chaining W8960N routers

Can someone please help me understand daisy chaining W8960N routers.
Setup: Router 1 (R1 = 192.168.1.1) replaces HH3 without problem and an ethernet output from it goes from R1 to Router 2 (in this case R2 = 192.168.1.10).
1. Does R2 need a reboot after EVERY change or is there some guideline to when "Save & Apply" is adequate without a reboot?
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1. Does R2 need a reboot after EVERY change or is there some guideline to when "Save & Apply" is adequate without a reboot?
Mine needs a reboot every time
2. If I disconnect R2 and make a change e.g. NAT enable/disable or change routing and then reconnect to R1, does R1 accept the new settings immediately or does it remember the old settings (in other words: Does R1 need a reboot when changes are only made to R2)?
R2 doesn't affect R1 at all.
3. Is R2 PPPoE or IPoE (or IoW)?
R2 doesn't have it's WAN port connected, so it doesn't matter what you choose
4. Does R2 see "the outside world" as its WAN port such that R1 is the IP address (or IP gateway address - [ these confuse me]) or does it see the outside world as R1's connection to BT modem. If the latter case does R2 still need to supply ISP userid and pswd?
R2 doesn't have the WAN port connected, so ignored.
5. DNS - Should R2 DNS point to the outside world servers or just to R1 (192.168.1.1) or does it make no difference.
R2 doesn't have the WAN connected so ignored.
6. There is consensus that only one router should have DHCP (R1) however most sites say that NAT must be disabled on R2. Steve Gibson's site explains how NAT on router 2 adds to security. Should it be on or off? Same with SPI firewall?
You must disable DHCP on all routers except R1 - Only 1 DHCP server is required.
7. Finally, would R3's config be identical to R2 (except it's IP address).
Yes
Most importantly, disable QSS on all routers as this is a big security risk - it allows your wifi to be hacked.
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Wiebetech bus-powered FW800 external & daisy chaining...

Please, only people that ALREADY OWN & USE the Wiebetech drive reply. Thanks.
I just bought one - the 500GB. I have three questions:
1) From your experience in running this unit, can I use it on only bus power, in a daisy chain with another FW800 drive if the other drive has a power adapter?
2) What if I have a FW400 drive also plugged in, and the FW400 is connected to the FW400 port and has it's own power adapter?
3) Also, does including a FW400 drive in the loop AFTER the FW800 Wiebetech have any adverse affect on the FW800 speed or it's bus-power?
It sounds like the draw for the 500GB on us power will be running questionably close to the max output on the port. So I'm trying to do some homework ahead of time to see if I might run into any anomalies. Thanks.

tommmy wrote:
Most portable external drives are now bus powered, many don't even have a power input.
I wonder how many bus powered Firewire driives I can daisy-chain.
Use a powered Firewire/USB hub so there is enough power to power the port powered devices.
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Yet another question on daisy chaining...

After having thoroughly sifted through prior discussion on the subject, as well as looked at the online tutorial (gooberguides) and other sources, I am compelled to come back and ask this question. This is Captivate 5.
Here is my scenario, and it seems to be quite simple. I have a large project, which I want to break up into smaller ones. This is so that users don't have to sit and wait for it to load from the LMS before they can start. I need to have SCORM reporting, so that users can leave and come back to where they were. I don't think I can resolve this using Multi-SCO Packager, as the resulting package doesn't appear as a single module, but as several modules within a single package. Aggregator wouldn't quite work, since it forces that TOC, which I don't want to have.
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