I only have the SWF file and HTML5 output, how can I control it?

Question

Picture this: A client gives me two zipped archives; one archive has a SWF file and another has HTML5, JS, and CSS. Both were published after checking "Scorm 1.2" in the reporting tab in Captivate. I'm just one developer and all I have at my disposal is html, javascript, and css.
Is it possible for me for resume progress? Send quiz scores to my web service? Control playback?

Answer 1

The 'built-in method' is called Self-paced Learning, and it usually has a message window that appears when you resume the lesson which asks the user whether or not they want to resume from the last visited slide.  However, as has been mentioned before on this forum, as soon as you activate LMS Reporting in Quiz Settings then Self-paced Learning is disabled. It's only designed for situations where an LMS is NOT involved.  LMSs typically have other mechanisms for resuming playback and having more than one mechanism active at the same time could result in conflicts.
SCORM-compliant LMSs have the option of using Resume Data Bookmarking, but not all LMSs implement this in consistent ways.  The new SCORM drivers with Cp6 do a much better job of implementing bookmarking than previous versions, so I encourage anyone to upgrade to Cp6 if they haven't already done so.
Since it sounds like you're trying to roll your own LMS I'm assuming that your Cp modules will have Quiz Reporting turned on, which means Self-paced Learning is NOT going to be an option.  You'll need to work with the SCORM Resume Data to achieve your goals.  But this is NOT an area for the faint-hearted or the non-programmer.  In SWF content, the scoring variables are passed from within the Captivate runtime to the Javascript SCORM API.  In HTML5 content this will all be JS code, however, it's going to be quite complex JS code and messing with it at all is likely to break something.  Personally, I wouldn't go that route.  If you're going to build your own LMS, make it the LMS that picks up the scoring and resume data from the Captivate output, rather than hacking the Cp code itself.