Editing data in a text entry box

I want a user to enter about 5 words in a text entry box. But in case of a mistake, they have to type the whole thing again. Is it possible to allow them to click in the middle of text ( say the third word) and add a letter.
At present, you can't get the cursor in the text you have entered. The whole thing gets selected.
I'd appreciate any help on this.
Thanks

Which version of Captivate are you using?
In Captivate 5.5 it's perfectly possible to just select one of the words in a TEB to correct that part of the entered string.

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Hello,
If you want to be sure that the user enters a date, perhaps this widget of Jim Leichliter could be of some interest to you:
http://captivatedev.com/2011/04/11/adobe-captivate-5-widget-text-entry-box-validator/
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Literally, I want the end user to enter the data in the text entry box, then click on the Get button. I need the Get button (click box) to both validate that the data entered in the text entry box is correct and, if it is, advance to the next slide. If the data is incorrect, I need the Get button (click box) to show the failure caption and have the end user re-enter the data correctly.
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Hi there
You need to delete the Click Box. Yes, you heard me. Delete the puppy.
I know it sounds weird. But bear with me. After you delete it, double-click the Text Entry Box. Then click the Options tab. See that option called Show Button? Click it and click OK to dismiss the TEB properties.
Now you have the button you want. If you don't want a button, double-click it and set it as transparent. Remove the text. Position as desired where the Click Box was before.
Cheers... Rick
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Does anyone know if project a project size affects the functionality of text box entry.
We have a project with 377 slides and for some reason, certain text entry boxes are not funtioning.
when we break the project down to smaller pieces, the functionality is restored.
is there some type of size limit for project/ text box funtionality?
tlockos

Hi there
Project size affects lots of things. You should consider yourself lucky that you haven't seen corruption and loss of data with that many slides!
Captivate 5 should change this limit, but versions 4 and earlier should adhere to a typical guideline of 50-65 slides. Sometimes you can get away with as many as 100-150, but it depends on many factors such as number of objects, how much audio is present, project resolution, etc.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi all
If this is Captivate 4, there may not be any need for a widget to do this. I'm guessing you haven't tried enabling the Scroll Bar for the Text Entry Box (TEB)?
When I just plop a TEB on a slide, I get this in edit view:
During playback it looks like this:
But if I edit the TEB properties and enable the Show Scrollbar option:
I get this in the output:
Cheers... Rick
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Hi,
I specified 10pt. Arial in my text entry boxes, but the text
shows up much smaller. Only sometimes. Any idea why? Is this a bug?
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Deepali

Try selecting all the text in the caption and setting it to
10 pt arial even if it is already set that way. Sometimes there are
invisible formatting characters embedded in the text. Be sure to
delete any blank characters or lines that appear after the text -
these can hold formatting characters also.
If none of this helps delete the caption and start again
making sure your font is set correctly before you start typing.
Also be sure not to copy and edit a caption that has give you
trouble, even if it is fixed now.
A useful hint:
If you are cutting and pasting text from another application
(such as Word) copy it to Notepad first, then reselect it and copy
it to Captivate. This strips spurious formatting characters.
HTH
Carol

Can I have multiple text entry boxes on one slide?

Can I have multiple text entry boxes on one slide, each with it's own possible answer without having to have a separte submit button for each?
Message was edited by: Suzanne Petty

I'm using Captivate 5 - I'm thinking I would like to put two or three text entry boxes on one slide - say labeled Name, Email and Company I'd like to have any answer be accepted, yet I still want to have the answers included with the quiz reporting for our main quiz which I set up using a question pool.
I understand I can uncheck the validate user input box in the general menu in the property inspector, but that also makes the reporting menu inactive for the text entry box.
Is there a way to make validate user input accept any answer that is typed in the box, but still have the answers reported with my quiz?
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Hey all, I am currently working on a project and have run
into a snag and cant seem to find the answer, or even if what i
need can be done.
Question 1: how do I advance a slide with the correct entry
of a text field without a button or keypress?
Question 2: if this is not possible, how can i have a text
entry box check for correct input using a custom button?
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.
M. Anderson

Hi M. Anderson
The first question may be accomplished if (and only if) the
last letter the user is supposed to type is unique among all the
letters. For example, BOFFO would not work. O occurs twice. But
LIFE would work, because E is unique. You could then configure the
letter E to be the shortcut for the Text Entry Box.
For the button, it's pretty easy. Click the Options tab and
look at your choices. Make sure the "Button" option contains a
check mark. After you dismiss the dialog, you end up with a rather
generic looking button. But once you enable the button, you may
then double-click it to edit its properties. You could choose an
image, or you could make it invisible and position the invisible
button over another image you placed on the slide as a simple image
object.
Hopefully this helps some... Rick

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In order to capture the screens I need, I have to enter text by typing it into a form. But I don't want the text I'm typing to appear in the final project. Instead, I want remove the typed text and replace it with a text entry box so that the learner can type in their own text.
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You can add the text entry box (TEB) on top of the required field, assign a variable to this TEB and in later slides, insert a smartshape and call this variable wherever required.
However I see some challenges in this, depending on your specific requirement.
1. If this variable is called 50 slides later, you should add a smartshape and call this variable 50 times. A bit tedious task.
2. Depending on the UI color changes, you should also change the smartshape color as many times in as many slides if you want to match the colors. Same with smartshape positions. Again, a tedious task.
3. What if this value is partially shown on a slide? A good lot of graphic editing work there. Use case: The user is creating a child node for some tree structure and you want to use this feature to let the user enter any node name he wants. Later in some other screen, this node (as part of the tree) appears on the right pane and the pane is partially hidden, then you will have to hide this new text also partially.
There may be few more challenges you might want to consider before deciding this.
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I am building a responsive project in CP8 and want to be able to extract (and store) the text that people type in the text entry boxes.
Is there a way that you can export or store the content. Perhaps the LMS can store the information and I can extract from there.
I have used window.print(); to print the page, but this is not ideal as not only does the learner need to save to PDF, but also it is in portrait orientation.
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For me i found 2 ways to to store text entries from user-input.
1. Currently i am testing the moodle-lms and it is able to track the text-entries. In order to do so it is necessary to enable "check user input" (dont know if its correct namend, because i am using the german captivate version). Unfortunately, it was hard to find. In the evaluation / analysis part it was "hidden" under the "cmi.suspend-data" tag which consists of almost unreadable sequence of figures, signs and characters.
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I think that you need to disable "Seamless Tabbing" in your file for it to work when published.
You need to edit the HTML file that launches your course manually.
Open your HTML file in notepad or equivalent
Between the <object> </object> tags add:
<param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="false">
Save the HTML file again
/Michael
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Text entry box

Where in Captivate 5.5 is data stored when I input to the "text entry box" field? I want to capture data (e.g., name or employee number) and then output it to a file upon a person's completion of quiz.

It would appear from the name of the text box that you have changed its Item Name. As I said before, the TEB and its default associated variable have the same name at time of insertion. However, if you have been working on this course module, it's possible that the variable was deleted or no longer associated with the TEB. Selecte the TEB and check in the Properties tab for the name of its associated variable. If there is none, then create a user variable and select it via the drop-down menu in the TEB's Properties tab to associate the two.
Remember that these are only variables INSIDE the Captivate module at runtime. They won't be accessible via command line interfaces as environment variables.

Using Value in a Text Entry Box for Calculation in a Variable

I have a project where I ask the user to fill in their name in one entry box and their two-digit age in another text entry box. Later in the project, I want to ask them to think back to when they were 6 years old and how they would describe themselves at that time. (the project is on self-awareness). To make this as personable as possible, I thought it would be neat to say. "(Name Variable), think back to about (Years Since 6)years ago, when you were just about 6 years old". I am having trouble getting the "Years Since 6" variable to work, and would like to know if it is possible.
I have set up the text entry box variable as "v_age"
I have set up a variable as "v_age6" with a value of "6"
I have set up the result variable as "v_result_age6"
I have set up a standard action with a mathematical expression that reads "v_result_age6 = v_age - v_age6"
The variable output does not show on the stage in project preview mode, and I think it's because there is only one variable with an assigned value in the equation. The "v_age" variable does not have an assigned value because that is a text entry box.
Is it possible to use a value typed in from a user as a variable to do math with?
Thanks.

Welcome to the forum,
Each TEB has an associated variable, its generic name is the same as the TEB. But you'd better link your variable with the more significant name to the TEB. Have a look at this real old blog post, still valid (although maybe the screenshots are bit out of date):
http://blog.lilybiri.com/timesaving-tip-create-associated-variable-for
BTW: you didn't need to create an extra variable for the number 6. This action would have done as well:
Expression v_resultage6 = v_age - 6
How do you trigger the action, by which event?
http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions
Lilybiri

Advanced action: jump to next slide if all text entry boxes are filled out. If not, pause project and show error message

Hi there
Working with captivate 4 and advanced actions, which is a great new feature, I encounter the following problem:
I have a sign-in slide, where the user has to insert his name and several other data. For user-friendly handling, I have the text entry boxes appearing one after another, so when the user confirms his entry, the next text entry box appears and has the focus.
The button for jumping to the next slide works with an advanced action:
Only if the user has filled out all the text entry boxes, the action "jump to the next slide" is performed.
If not, an error message is shown.
It works well so far.
Now, I want the project to pause there, and not to jump back to the beginning of the slide (as suggested in another Thread in this forum), because then the text entry boxes dissappear again.
I tried to set the movie control variable rdcmndPause to 1 in order to make the movie pause, but nothing happens.
I tried it with an external playback control bar and without, it didn't work in either case.
I found the hint:
To control the project through the skin file, add the prefix cpSkinLoader_mc to the variables. This might be the solution.(?)
But how can I change the name of a MovieControl Variable?
If anyone knows, how this is supposed to work or has another suggestion to solve the problem, please let me now.
Thanks a lot.
Petra

Hi Petra,
I believe I can help you, but from a completely different angle than anything you've tried yet. I try to find simple solutions to complex problems. No advanced actions will be needed, just a little creative timing. First, I need to be sure I correctly understand what it is you're hoping to accomplish.
If I understand you correctly, you've got a single welcome slide. On this slide you've got several TEB's (text entry boxes), set up with variables to make your project more personal or gather some required information. These TEB's have no right or wrong answers, they simply require an entry: such as an address which begins with a numeric key. The TEB's are set to appear one after another, as one is completed the next one appears. Once all have been completed a next button, set to "jump to next slide" takes them to the next slide and on through your course. You want the project to pause until the user clicks this button, and only proceed if all TEB's have been entered. If not, you wish an error message to appear.
If the above description is correct, I'd do the following:
Leave your TEB's to show up one at a time as the previous is submitted, as you've described. (each one pauses the slide till info is submitted, then "continues" the slide and the next TEB displays)
Set each TEB to "display for rest of slide".
For the next button: In the properties dialog box, options tab, name the button "Next_button" and uncheck the visibility box.
Open the properties for the final TEB that students will fill in and set the on success property to "show" then choose the Next_button by clicking the drop down arrow beside the "show" field. This will hide the Next button until all TEB's have been filled in.
There is no error message, because there is no possibility of error. Why tell a student they've messed up, just eliminate that possibility! All TEB's only display after the previous is entered, and the Next button is hidden until the last TEB is entered.
I've tested this in a simple 3 slide project and it all worked fine, including some variables. If you need more detailed info, or would like to see the sample proj. I created let me know.
Hope this helps.
randy

Moving on to next slide right after completion of TEB (text entry box).

Hello all--
I'm using Captivate 4.
I have a system training course where we require learners to enter the appropriate date into an TEB. After the date is entered, I want Captivate to move on to the next slide. For example, on screen 1, the learner enters '060510', then Captivate should move on to the next slide.
I can make Captivate work great with text menus: for example, if the learner enters the correct menu item 'A', then I can set the shortcut key to A which causes Captivate to move to the next slide right away and very nicely. But I can't figure out how to make this work with dates. Any suggestions???

Hi there
What you need is a shortcut key to trigger the action. Captivate makes it super easy to assign shortcuts, but they aren't without issues.
For example, some shortcut keys are always interpreted by the browser and therefore cannot be used reliably. In your case a likely shortcut would be to assign 0 as the shortcut. But this has issues because the first character typed is a 0. So the first time 0 were pressed an error would likely be issued because the field isn't complete yet and doesn't match the expected date.
I've seen this asked about before. What is really needed here is for Captivate to allow configuring a Text Entry Box object so it is constantly on the hunt for a specific string the author configures. Once the criteria has been satisfied, the assigned action occurs. You (and anyone else that wants to see this emerge as a feature) should ask Adobe via the Wish Form (link is in my sig).
Cheers... Rick
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