Help in comparing e-learning to Brainshark?

I am a newish user of RoboHelp, have not tried Captivate as yet.
My colleague would like to use BrainShark as an E-Learning tool. The company has purchased RoboHelp already and we would like to use that for E-Learning as well as documentation.
Could someone point me to a place to compare the products? Or give me the benefit of their experiences?
Our software users range from customers of our company to company employees. Some users are complete novices, and others are Power Users.
And, how difficult is it to create E-Learning modules?
Thanks!
Patti

Hi again
Well, as luck would have it, I do know both applications pretty well.
Think of it this way. With Captivate, one of the ways to use it is to turn it on and record a series of actions. Perhaps how to arrange your windows in an application. You are then able to play that back to a variety of users. You are also able to record in a manner where the end user has to follow the same actions. Basically a simulation. You may then create a quiz that tests the user's understanding of the concepts put forth. That all happens with Captivate.
RoboHelp is a product that allows you to create help systems. Perhaps your company sells a software product. Instead of shipping a printed manual, you supply an on-line version of the printed manual. But it also does more than that. RoboHelp may also produce a web site with many pages inside. Perhaps Policies and Procedures, things like that.
RoboHelp 8 does ship with an "e-Learning template", but really it's intended to allow organizing many different Captivate presentations. So while Captivate creates the eLearning, it really offers no ability to take perhaps 100 different Captivate movies and organize them so they are easy to find and display from a web site. RoboHelp can do that easily.
Hopefully that helps you better define the roles of each product. If not, or if you have other questions, please feel free to ask!
Cheers... Rick
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My (unbidden) 2c
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Books:
<a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/">http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/</a> 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Essential-ActionScript-3-0-Colin-Moock/dp/0596526946">Essential ActionScript 3.0</a> 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-ActionScript-3-0-Beginners-Guide/dp/059652787X/ref=sr_1_2?i e=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261737552&sr=1-2">Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide</a> 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/ActionScript-Adobe-Flash-Professional-Classroom/dp/0321579216/ref=sr _1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261737552&sr=1-6">ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book</a> 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/ActionScript-3-0-Game-Programming-University/dp/0789737027/ref=sr_1_ 7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261737552&sr=1-7">ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University</a> 
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Need help with comparing cursor row to a collection

I have been racking my brain trying to get get the code below to work properly. I am loading a table via bulk collect into a collection. I want to run code that tells me if the value of batch_REC.co_id exists or not in co.id collection. The best I have is below. The compiler does not like the MEMBER statement, and I do not know why. I am running 9i if that makes a difference. Any pointers would be extremely helpfull. Thank you.
Allan Richards
Washington, D.C.
--Initiate Procedure
procedure Check_Company_ID (Batches_cv_in IN refgas.batchCurTyp, truth boolean default null) is
--DECLARATIONs
TYPE CO_ID_Array IS TABLE OF NUMBER ;
Batch_REC t_batch%ROWTYPE;
number_check EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(number_check,-6502);
answer boolean;
co_id CO_ID_Array;
c NUMBER;
--Begin Code
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line('-----');
dbms_output.put_line('Here is the data from the result set:');
--Setup Truth Output
IF truth IS NOT NULL THEN
dbms_output.put_line(CASE truth WHEN TRUE THEN 'True' WHEN FALSE THEN 'False' END);
END IF;
--Select T_COMPANY.COMPANY_ID into a collection
select t_company.COMPANY_ID
bulk collect into co_id
from t_company;
--Loop through the Cursor
LOOP
FETCH Batches_cv_in INTO Batch_REC;
EXIT WHEN Batches_cv_in%NOTFOUND;
--Check each co_id per loop for existance in t_company
BEGIN
--To detect if an entry is not a compliant number
c := to_number(Batch_REC.co_id);
--Checking each number as existing
answer := c MEMBER OF co_id;
check_company_id(truth => anwser);
--Setup for error catching
EXCEPTION
When number_check
Then
dbms_output.put_line('Company ID has invalid Characters! ' || Batch_REC.co_id ||' '|| Batch_REC.facility_id ||' '|| Batch_REC.batch_id||' '|| Batch_REC.report_date);
end;
END LOOP;
--Output Total Number of Records in Collection
dbms_output.put_line('Number of Records: ' || co_id.COUNT);
--Give "All Good" Statement if all records compare properly
IF co_id IS NULL THEN
dbms_output.put_line('All Company IDs are Good');
end if ;
end;

I guess what I looking for then is a work around for 9i. Don't know if you're still watching this thread but you may be interested in this code from Steven Feuerstein (Whom God Preserve).
Cheers, APC

Help.I want to learn about how to assign a custom request with manager .

Hi.
When i submit a custom single request.I got this problem.
No concurrent manager is defined to process this request, so it cannot be processed.
Contact your system administrator to define a concurrent manager to process this request or to verify that existing concurrent managers have the correct specialization rules.
Then, I check the request with request id in application manager.I found there is no manager with my program.So I think i need to assign it.But i don't know how to do it.
So.please help me.waiting for reply...
Thanks
Snail.

Check Note: 342932.1 - No Concurrent Manager is Defined to Process This Request on Shutdown of Managers
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=342932.1

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I'm trying to compare two strings and then set font color of a JLabel accordingly. However, I'm having trouble with comparing the strings. I have a dialog inside each if statement for testing, because at first I thought I was just having a problem with the font color. Anyway, Here is what I've tried:
if ((myString.equals("myTestText"))==true) {...This shows no errors, but does nothing.
String string = "myTestText";
if ((myString.equals(string))==true) {...Again, no errors, but doesn't work. I'm sure that myString holds a string, and that its value is correct.
What am I doing wrong?

Yes, they are both equal. The string is parsed from an xml feed, and in the xml feed it is like so:<urgency>
Expected
</urgency>
<severity>
Severe
</severity>
<certainty>
Likely
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Someone please help creating comparable objects

I have been given a second part to an assignement that wants me to create a program for comparing student obejects. The assignment description and code are below. I can' t see how the find to method interlocks with the findsmallest because find smallest is already finding the smallest value. I also don't see where the new diffinitions for UMUC_Comparable goes.
In the second part of this project, you will also find the smallest element in the array, but now the array will be of UMUC_Comparable objects. It will use the compareTo method to compare objects to find the smallest one. This method will also have the name findSmallest, but will take an array of UMUC_Comparable objects. This findSmallest method will have a definition as follows:
UMUC_Comparable findSmallest(UMUC_Comparable[] array);
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For the second part of this project, you should:
Create a main that creates an array of Student objects, as in section III of module V. You can use the same array as defined module V. You do not have to read these objects in from a file.
Call the findSmallest method to find the smallest Student object.
Use the getName and getAverage methods in the Student object to print out the smallest object.
Note that the return from the method is a UMUC_Comparable object, not a Student object, so you must cast the returned object to a Student object before printing it out. You can do so as follows:
Student[] students ....; // Fill in the declaration // of the student array.
Student s = (Student)findSmallest(UMUC_Comparable[] array);
/* File: Student.java
* Author: Darrell Clark
* Date: December 3, 2006
* Purpose: Shows how to find the smallest Int value in an array
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Student {
private int average;
private String name;
/* public constructor. Note that because no default
* constructor exists, Student objects will always
* be constructed with a name and an average.
public Student(String name, int average) {
this.average = average;
this.name = name;
} // end method
* return name
public String getName() {
return name;
} // end method
* return average
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return average;
} // end method
* compare to method for locating smallest value
 public static int findSmallest(int[] array) {
 int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
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 min = array;
 return min;
* compare student value
public int compareTo(Student student) {
return (this.average - student.average);
} // end method
 public static void main(String[] args) {
Student[] studentArray = { new Student("Tom", 87),
new Student("Cindy", 100),
new Student("Pat", 75),
new Student("Anne", 92),
new Student("Matt", 82)};
for (int i = 0; i < studentArray.length; i++) {
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studentArray[i].average);
} // end for
} // end method
} // end class

Were you given the UMUC_Comparable interface, or do you have to write it?
(1) In the latter case, that is where to start. It includes the method
compareTo(UMUC_Comparable). This will almost certainly return an
int - check out the API documentatuon for the Comparable interface.
(2) What I think the assignment is asking you to do is rewrite the Student
class so that it implements UMUC_Comparable.
Then you write the findSmallest(UMUC_Comparable[]) method. There is
already a static method like this in the (existing) Student class. It's anybody's
guess where this method is supposed to go - perhaps you could ask
whoever gave you the assignment. The problem is that it can't go in
UMUC_Comparable because that's an interface. And it doesn't really belong
in Student because it is a sort of utility function that deals with any
UNUC_Comparable array.
(3) Let's assume that findSmallest(UMUC_Comparable[]) goes in the
Student class. So you replace the existing findSmallest() with the new one.
The new one goes through the array using the UMUC_Comparable's
compareTo() method to find the smallest UMUC_Comparable.
(4) Finally in main() you create a test array, use the newly rewritten
findSmallest() to find the smallest Student, and print their name and
average.

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With ant worked example. Pls........

Hi Bhaskar,
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http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/bapi/example.htm
list of all BAPI's
http://www.planetsap.com/LIST_ALL_BAPIs.htm
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