How do I create variables in Captivate?

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out. I'm working
on some e-learn using Captivate at the moment and am not sure how
we 'affect' variables once a user as completed a branch. i.e. I
have three buttons on a page representing 3 different branchs. When
a user selects a button he/ she follows the slides in the branch.
At the end of the branch they are returned to the original slide
with the 3 buttons, only now, the button that they originally
selected is marked as complete or changed to represent having been
completed (i.e. text is added, icon changes etc).
I hope this makes sense. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Cheers

I found that I could export my Captivate project to Flash and
then use Actionscript to make checkmarks visible on the menu if
various sections were viewed. Here's some code that may make this
easier if you care to try the same thing:
Initialization Code for a menu with four checkmarks (frame
1):
_global.section1viewed = false;
_global.section2viewed = false;
_global.section3viewed = false;
_global.section4viewed = false;
Menu Code (place on the frame(s) that display the menu):
if (section1viewed) {
checkmark1._visible=true;
} else {
checkmark1._visible=false;
if (section2viewed) {
checkmark2._visible=true;
} else {
checkmark2._visible=false;
if (section3viewed) {
checkmark3._visible=true;
} else {
checkmark3._visible=false;
if (section4viewed) {
checkmark4._visible=true;
} else {
checkmark4._visible=false;
(Also place on the menu the 4 checkmarks which are movieclips
and name their instances checkmark1, checkmark2, etc.)
Set variables to true (place the appropriate statement by
changing the 1 to 2, 3, or 4, on the last page of each section):
_global.section1viewed = false;

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