How do I display course and section titles?

Question

I am a 'vetran' Lectora and RWD uPerform developer so Captivate is relatively new to me.
It seems that 'how things are done' in Captivate is very Adobe... powerful BUT relatively convoluted.
It is very easy to set up the other elearning tools to automatically display the current course name and section titles... however I haven't a clue how this can be accomplished in Captivate 4. I have uploaded a graphic to illustrate what I am asking. Please see the area in the red circle. Can anyone help out?
Figuring out how to do this by example would be nice, unfortunately, Adobe's included examples offter very little and are generally repeats of the same material. I guess they prefer to sell training, rather than give away their secrets. :-]  On that note, my second question is... what is considered the best on-line or self-paced training for Captivate 4?
Thank you,
Doug

Answer 1

Hello Rick,
Thanks for the quick response. And thanks for not pointing out my obvious spelling mistake. Doh! Really, my technical writing is usually better.
Captiv8r wrote:
Hi there
In the future, please insert images inline using the camera icon. Well, only if you want us to see them. If you don't care if we see them, feel free to continue attaching.
Hmmm... I see. A bug in the forum s/w? Interestingly enough, I can still see my attachment. I will reattach in this reply, doing it your way.
Captiv8r wrote:
You would accomplish this by inserting a Text Caption. There really isn't anything "automatic" about it though. You need to either type what you want to appear directly into the Caption or you will need to create a variable to store the value and insert the variable into the Caption. Then at various points in the project, change the variable if you want it to read differently.
If I am understanding you correctly, I am rather disappointed that I cannot set "Section Title" to display the "Slide Label". Course title can be set as a variable and it doesn't need to change but the "Section Title" (or rather "Slide Label") would change with each slide. This is a basic function in both Lectora and RWD uPerform.
Captiv8r wrote:
shawninvancouver wrote:
It seems that 'how things are done' in Captivate is very Adobe... powerful BUT relatively convoluted.
Keep in mind that while Adobe now owns Captivate, it's a product they received via the purchase of Macromedia. So it's not your typical "Adobe" product from that perspective.
I not really knocking Captivate 4 and I do understand I am still on the left side of the learning curve, but I am finding that it is a lot quicker and more intuitive to accomplish tasks in Captivate 4. I understand this came from Macromedia but after several iterations, it is a lot like other Adobe products (obviously their intent). Again, this is not necessarily bad... just different. As an example (and off topic) I still have a habit of gravitating back to the infuriatingly unreliable (but super easy/quick to accomplish tasks) Corel Draw because Adobe Photoshop is infuriatingly convoluted (but super-uber reliable).
Thanks for your help Rick.
BTW, I am interested in your ebooks but there are no descriptions, or prices, and there is no actual purchase link to Google stores. I have a feeling that they are all Captivate version 3.... and there are probably too many differences between version 3 and 4. Sigh...