Downloading Captivate generated files

Question

Hello,
My organization would like to make our training content
available to users for downloading to their local machines. How can
I make this possible, considering our training website publishes
links of the generated htm file instead of the swf? Please note
that we would like the Captivate output to remain as htm (instead
of swf).
Thanks,
MM

Answer 1

You're correct that Captivate files are not intended to be
run offline except via the .EXE option. Even then, the .EXE is
truly standalone and doesn't support any of the results tracking
options found in the Quiz Manager.
The main reason HTML is not good for offline use is that any
HTML file with embedded Javascript and Flash (as is the case with
Captivate-generated files) is typically considered "dangerous" by
both the browser and Flash Player security settings when run
locally. This can lead to some functionality being disabled, so
unless you do a LOT of testing with users, I wouldn't recommend
running HTML files from anywhere but a web server.
That said, Rick's suggestion of using .ZIP is probably your
only good option. Not a great one, but as good as it gets.
It assumes that your users either all have some sort of
Zip-compatible decompression software (like WinZip) or are using
Windows XP SP2, which has crude Zip file support built-in. It also
assumes that they unzip ALL the files into a given directory and
don't try to run the HTML file directly from the Zip, which may or
may not work depending on the method used to open the Zip
file.