Importing Quiz Preferences

Hello,
We are working on a project that has many Captivate projects. I am trying to change the quiz preferences in the Captivate projects. I do this by changing the quiz preferences then exporting the preferences to a CPR file. Then, I import the CPR file into another Captivate project.
The problem is that not all of the preferences are being imported. I enabled reporting for the project. That setting seems to import into other projects. However, I also changed options such as:
Slide View Completion percentage
Under Settings, the Required selection
Under Pass or Fail, allow user Infinite attempts
None of these preferences are being imported into the new project.
Any ideas on how to do this? (Besides manually changing over 100 project files.)
We are using Captivate 4 and Windows XP.
Thanks,
Tim

Hi Tim,
The options which you have mentioned are purposefully not exported and then consequently imported. If you want these options to be a part of preference options export/import workflow then I would advise you to submit an enhancement request.
But you try this workaround:
1. Open project 1 which has your quiz settings, which you want to apply on all the projects.
2. Import all the slides of project 2 in project 1.
3. Delete the slides of project 1 and save the project.
Manish
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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