Inserting click boxes in Q slides in Captivate 5.5

I don't have the option to insert click boxes in question slides in my version of Captivate (5.5), which I would like to do to create a quiz with multiple reults per these instructions: http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/852/cpsid_85255.html). See screenshot below:
Any ideas about workarounds or some setting or function that I'm missing would be greatly appreciated!

No workarounds. With Captivate 6 or higher you can add some interactive objects such as shape buttons to quiz slides, but not with Cp 5.5.
Your only other option is to forego using quiz slides and create your own question slides using interactive objects.

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Captivate 6 is Crashing when inserting click boxes and other issues

Desperately need help because I have never seen anything like this. I use Captivate 6 in the workplace and have not run into an issue like this in the 9 years I have used Captivate.
Captivate will not open any new projects (800 x 600 or 640 x 480 etc.) Nothing happens. When I open 1024 x 768 (the project size I have been using for the last year), a new project will open but when I try to add a click box, I get an error message "A fatal error has occurred and the application is being terminated. Adobe Captivate tried to save all your work int he respective project folders as "cpbackup" files. Please restart Captivate. This has only been happening for a week.
When a coworker or IT employee signs onto my computer under their profile, Captivate works fine for them. I went to another co-workers desk who has Captivate and when I sign on her computer under my profile, I have the same problem so we figured my work profile was corrupt. IT set up a new profile 2 separate times, I have uninstalled and re-installed 3 or 4 time and nothing works. We are on a network but Captivate is installed on my C:Drive and I save all my files on the C:Drive.
The odd thing is if can open up files I have worked on this past year (even up to 2 weeks ago), they are fine and I can insert click boxes without any problems. It just happens when I try to create a new file.
We have Adobe volume licenses at work so I can not call and get support and none of us can figure this out. I would be really grateful for some help!!
Thanks,
Jeff

For instructions about how to reset the Preferences folder or Clear Cache, see the suggestions on this page:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-troubleshooting/basic-troubleshooting-tech niques
If you want 300 more troubleshooting tips for Cp, you'll need to read the book:
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Multiple click boxes on one slide; Pausing project

I'm using Captivate 5.5.
I have four click boxes on a slide. Three click boxes upon clicking show an image and then show a success caption. The forth click box shows a success caption but also is set to "pause project until user clicks."
Unfortunately, if any of the three click boxes are clicked it advances the playhead even though the forth click box was never clicked. How can I pause the project until only the forth click box is activated no matter if the other three click boxes have been previously clicked?

Hello,
Default behavior of click boxes is to trigger the simple action that is assigned to it AND at the same time to release the play head. Even if those 3 click boxes had a pause, at the same moment as the fourth, this would have happened. If you put the pausing point of the fourth click box later than the pausing of the first three, it will work fine if the user clicks only one out of 3 click boxes.
If you replace the simple action by a (eventually one-line) advanced standard action, the play head is not released:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/why-choose-standard-over-simple-action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nKi-DB6Fw
Lilybiri

Captivate 4 crashes when I try to add a click box to a slide

I know this is not an advanced functionality but it's certainly an agressive bug. I have created several movies using the Clickbox button to add boxes to my slides with no problem, but I have one Captive 4 file that crashes every time I click on the Clickbox tool or try to paste a Clickbox from another movie. The problem file was created in the same resolution and using the same techniques as the non-problematic files. Any ideas as to what could be causing this or am I stuck with a corrupt file I need to reshoot?
Thanks!
Joyce

Hi there
It could be that your project has become corrupt. In that case you might be able to recover by opening a second instance of Captivate and creating a new blank project using the same resolution as the problem one. Then copy slides from the problem project and pasting into the new blank one.
Just a side note. You seem to be confusing Click Boxes and Buttons. These are two distinctly different objects. Click Boxes operate nearly the same way as Buttons. They are invisible by their very nature.
Cheers... Rick
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Inserting click boxes in an assessment

I am in the process of completing an online course using captivate 7. Within the course some of the modules will have an assessment portion where they will need to complete a scenario based objective. In the past, I have set it up where I would go to file and select record new software simulation and select the assessment portion. I record my simulation and then copy and past the slides into my module.
I did that this time and the assessment itself works. However, the click boxes I have set to return the user back to review the scenario are not working. There is no difference between what I have done here and what I have done in the past. I have the click box set to jump to a specific slide and then the slide I jump to I have have the scenario click box return to the last slide visited.
I have set the modules up to be a show, try it! and assess type modules. The Try It! my scenario buttons woprk but not my assess.
Any help would be much appreciated!!!
Thank You,
Bob

Please see a picture of how I have programmed my click boxes.

Click Box - Jump to slide error

Captivate v5.5
I have put a click box on slide 1 to allow users to my "Skip Intro" (slides 1-4) and jump to slide 5.
Whilst the click box does jump to slide 5 - the audio on slide 1 continues instead of the audio on 5.
I have tried using a button (instead of click box) and that works just fine - but problem with using a button is, I want slide 1 to continue to slide 2 etc by itself if the learner does not click "Skip Intro"
Does anyone have any suggestions what might be causing this.
NEL

Brilliant....Works a treat!
What I dont understand is I have used click boxes many times before to jump to slides and have never had this problem before - audio from original slide continues to play after jumping to a new slide - so wonder why this has just started. Any ideas (just for my own education).
At least I now know what to do.
Many thanks.
Noel

Is there a way to have TTS for multiple click boxes on same slide?

Hi all,
Using v.7 and Win 7 here. Have a project where I am using Paul's Text-to-speech TTS voice. So far so good. I need to build an interactive slide with mulitple click boxes so the learner can gauge where they are at in the projects progress. Is there a way to use TTS for these mulitple click boxes on the same slide? I see that you can import audio as an MP3 or .wav file but don't know how you would generate the TTS and save it seperately so it could be imported.
Thanks for the help

Just generate the TTS on a separate slide and then assign the audio file created in the LIbrary to whatever object you need.

How to add an audio click box on a quiz slide - adobe captivate 6?

Hi,
I'm trying to add an audio click box on a question slide. It works brilliantly on normal slides but theres no option to add a click box on quiz slides.
I'm trying to add audio on click. So, when somebody clicks that area they will hear a sound. Is there a way to do this on a question slide?
Thanks

Replace those old click boxes by shapes configured as buttons. Have a look at this post:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate
Lilybiri

Displaying a caption when multiple click boxes has been clicked in a slide.

I have 9 click boxes in my slide which when clicked opens a different page except 1 click box.1 click box takes the user to the previous page . I want to display a text caption when the user has clicked other 8 click boxes just to make sure they go through all the pages. Is there a way in captivate to do this? If yes, how do I do it?

Since you are not yet familiar with advanced actions (and variables?), will try to explain in detail and provide some links to articles/blog posts as well.
Create 8 user variables, one for each click box (Project, Variables); I will label them v_one, v_two.....v_eight It is not necessary to give a default value
Create another user variable v_counter that will be incremented whenever a click box has been clicked for the first time
Create a first click box (set to visible), label it CB_One (find that easier) and in the Properties panel, Action accordion, On Success change the action to 'Execute Advanced actions'. Then open the actions dialog box with the Folder icon that appears.
You have to create a conditional action, so select that type, and label it CB_One (is possible, an exception because normally you cannot have same labels); this action will need two decisions (have a look at my video tutorial: http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/858/cpsid_85847.html):
First decision 'Visited' checks if the click box has already been clicked, visible when the value of v_one = 1; if this is not the case (first click) v_one gets the value=1 and the counter v_counter is incremented
Second decision 'Check' checks the value of the counter, and shows an initially invisible button (I choose a button, BtNext but you can also have a click box) if the counter reaches 8, bummer the forum doesn't allow me to insert an image, have to type:
IF section v_counter is equal to 8
Actions section Show BtNext
Duplicate the click box 7 times, label them CB_Two, ..... CB_Eight (beware: case sensitivity). To each copy the same advanced action is attached, but you'll have to create duplicate actions for each one CB_Two.... In the duplicates you have to replace the variable v_one by the proper variable (v_two...) in the first decision; the second decision remains the same
Test.
Lilybiri

3 click boxes one slide - each to jump to different slide - none working !

Captivate v5.5
I am trying to set up Branching and have create one slide with 3 options. Each option has a click box and set to Jump to slide X, Y Z.
Tried everything but none of them are working. Nothing happens.
Could there be a conflict when there is more than one click box on same slide ?
Noel

Lilybiri,
Think I have resolved it.
I created my 3 click boxes on my branching slide and started preview from the branching slide with F8 - nothing worked.
I went back to one slide before my branching slide, started the F8 from there and when I got to the branching slide all 3 click boxes worked and jumped to their correct slides!
Not sure why starting from previous slide would fix it - but it seems to be working - at least via F8.

Click box problem..loop to next slide without the command

Guys, I have a problem with my click boxes.
I'm using captivate 5.5.
details:
I have 4 click boxes
3 for hide and show objects
1 for go to next slide.
I have 2 slides only.
first slide has the changing view.
sample:
clickbox1 opens object 1 2 and 3 and triggers audio inside object 1 (working)
clickbox2 hides objects 1 2 and 3..shows 4 5 and 6 objects with audio also.
clickbox 3 goes the same process.
Problem: when I click clickbox2..it performs the action but maybe at around 1 second then proceed to the next slide. in which in the action, there was no command that say go to next slide or any.
the button for the next slide is on the 4 clickbox.
I'm using advance actions by the way.
I'm confused, this is my second time to do this..the first was working, what could be the problem?
Thanks

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I'm thinking if this is an inconsistency of CP.
action..for page2
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Adding Click box makes Captivate freeze up and end in error and closing down.

Since the patch yesterday, everytime I go to add a Click Box to a slide, Captivate freezes, says not responding at the top and eventually the ol' "Captivated ended in error, send error info to Microsoft". I have lost my work so many times today. I have cleared all temp files, etc. shut down, powered down, etc. to try and clear whatever it is, but it is still happening. The project and Captivate was working ok yesterday. Just the "usual" Captivate locking up and falling down. I am using this on Windows XP.
Message was edited by: donnaj Actually, now when trying to record a new slide Captivate locked up and I got the message. In fact I had to HARD BOOT the system...
Cannot do with Captivate today really. Apart from changing sizes of highlight boxes.

Hi there
"I do not see any documentation stating a limitation."
This is true. You seldom (if ever) see things like this in any manufacturer documentation. After all, their goal is to sell the product and tell you how great it is and how it will address your needs. Limitations are viewed as a negative, so they are typically omitted. I'm sure Toyota didn't have any docs that said that "oh yes, and by the way, sometimes the gas pedal will stick". Or Microsoft doesn't say "by the way, Windows will sometimes crash on you and you will have to totally reinstall our operating system when that happens".
Things like project limitations are learned by end users sharing their collective experiences and wisdom here and in other places on the web. Captivate has always had a size limitation. Often we recommend that folks keep projects somewhere between 50-65 slides as a common "rule of thumb" guideline. Our hope is that a future version will remove any such limitations. But my guess is that you will then see some other unexpected issue emerge. Such is the nature of the software beast.
Another thing that is never mentioned anywhere except in third party materials is the fact that Captivate projects should not be placed on a network unless you are doing that as a backup mechanism. You never want to place a project on a network drive, then open Captivate and proceed to open the project and make edits while the project is on the network drive. Working in this manner holds the risk of completely corrupting your project and rendering it unusable.
Cheers... Rick
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Click-box behavior and calling javascript

Greetings,
While working on a project I have noticed odd behavior
concerning click-box behavior where there are more than one
click-box on a slide.
Here is the situation:
I have a Captivate (2) lesson project. In several slides I
have an area on the slide where the user can access material
outside the lesson. They do this via clicking a click-box. The
click-box is set to fire a javascript that opens the additional
content (an outside url) in window that "floats" above the
currently viewed slide.
The javascript is a standard open browser window script with
passed parameters.
Here is the script being called (it is located in
standard.js):
function openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features)
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
This script is being called in Captivate in:
Insert -> Click-box -> If the user clicks inside the
box, On Success -> Execute Javascript
An example of a typical call:
Click box -> JavaScript: -> In the window/field is:
javascript:openBrWindow('
http://www.mydomain.com/about/org-pol/f-07/f-07-016.html','mypolicy','width=800,height=600 ,scrollbars=yes');
This works fine. A window with this URL opens up over the
stopped slide.
The odd behavior comes in where I have more than one of these
click-boxes on a slide. If the user clicks a second click box, the
correct (different) URL opens up in a window OK, but the slide (now
behind the new, open window) advances. It shouldn't advance to the
next slide. It should stay put until a user clicks a particular
button to advance.
Has anyone seen this type of behavior before? Is this a bug
in Captivate 2? Or a bad javascript call? Any thoughts?
Thank you for your input.
TPK

Hi TPK
When you edit the properties of the Click Box, note that
there are two buttons to the right of the "JavaScript" field. One
is an ellipsis ( ... ) and you probably clicked that one to enter
the script. The other is a down arrow. You need to click the down
arrow and DE-select the option labeled "Continue playing project".
You will need to do this for each Click Box the user may interact
with where you don't want the slide to continue if the user clicks.
Cheers... Rick

Several click boxes on screen but only one failure caption appearing

Hi,
I'm using Captivate 6 and I have 3 click boxes on one slide. I have set each click box to have a Failure caption however, only the failure caption of the click box in the top position of the timeline appears in the course.
Ideally I want all 3 captions to appear at once if the user fails to click in any of the correct areas.
Do anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
Liam

Hi Liam
One way I can fathom would be to create a blank slide. Insert three text captions that present the text you wish to see and arrange them so they "work" aesthetically. Then preview the project and screen capture. Then configure the background as transparent and save the image. Use this image as the Failure caption for that top level Click Box object.
Cheers... Rick

Click box - advanced actions - dims images

If I have a text box, by using advanced action on slide I hide it, then on a click box I want it to show - when the hidden text box reveals itself, the image dims. Why is that? What do I have set incorrectly?
thank you to anyone who can help!

Hello again
Indeed I thought I had explained that.
Each object such as an Image, Caption or whatever is generally equipped with a Fade In and Fade Out transition effect. These effects are typically half a second long. So if you pause the slide very near the end of the object display time, the pause is occurring as the transition is fading the object out of view. Thus the "dimming" occurs.
If you configure the object so no fade out occurs on the transition (Fade In only) then it doesn't matter if you pause near the end because it doesn't fade out of view. Likewise, if you adjust the timing so the Click Box pauses the slide before the transition begins to occur, the dimming won't happen either.
Cheers... Rick
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