How do I change a menu button color when a section is complete

Question

I have created a selection screen (menu) that lets participants pick how they want to move through a module: menu item 1, menu item 2, menu item 3, and menu item 4. Is there a way to change the color of a menu item or add a check mark next to a menu item when you have completed a section so a user can check their progress in the menu and know what they have already done. An explanation of how to do so would be very much appreciated. Thanks! (I am using Captivate 7)

Answer 1

Something like I show in this blog post:
Captivate 8 - First Adventures - Captivate blog
The explanation there is for Captivate 8 and with Shared actions. I have explained this multiple times, also in a webinar: Shapes « Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog has the link to that webinar.
And several threads in this forum have a short explanation as well. First choice is: do you want to allow the user to visit the same menu item more than once?
You will have to put the check marks in place, but make them hidden (Properties panel). If you want a change in color, you can either replace the menu item (don't know how it looks) by another one with another color, or cover the menu item with a shape that has another color, or apply a Basic effect to it. All that can be done with the same advanced action (standard) that has the Jump to... statement. You can even use Shared Actions in this case, because you don't need a variable.
Problem with this first approach is that for slow bandwidth (and especially for HTML output) the user can sometimes see already very shortly the changes before the Jump action.  And if there are different slides in the menu, you want perhaps to be sure that they visited all the slides. If that is the case, let me know and I'll explain a more complicated solution that will not present the disadvantages of this first solution, that is the easiest one.
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