"Last slide viewed" hyperlink in Flash export

Just trying out using Keynote as a change from Microsoft PPT, particularly for the Flash export feature (as well as the lovely design features of course).
I am going to get around the lack of a Play Audio "Action Setting" by having the audio segment on a separate, self-contained slide at the end of a document. On this self-contained slide I have put a "back" button hyperlinked to "Last slide viewed". However upon export to Flash, this function doesn't work, and hangs the entire presentation.
Can anyone confirm if this is a known bug?

I wouldn't call it a bug, more like something Apple just didn't implement. I mean, I have to wonder how hard it would have been to write a flash file that itself (not Keynote) tracks where the viewer is and remembers their last "slide"
Personally, I think the flash export on Keynote should NOT be one of its selling points. If you need a serious flash movie, it's best to just use flash.

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BUG?! "Last Slide Viewed" in Flash Export NOT WORKING!!!

Am I missing something? In Keynote, I create an object, assign a hyperlink to "Last slide viewed" and export the file to Flash/SWF.
Lo! Behold! The "Last slide viewed" hyperlinks are not working! I tried it on objects AND text, but nothing works.
Do you know a work-around or is this a hard bug?
I don't have to tell you the whole project is getting ready to be flushed...
Thanks in advance for any help!

I wouldn't call it a bug, more like something Apple just didn't implement. I mean, I have to wonder how hard it would have been to write a flash file that itself (not Keynote) tracks where the viewer is and remembers their last "slide"
Personally, I think the flash export on Keynote should NOT be one of its selling points. If you need a serious flash movie, it's best to just use flash.

Grey Screen in iPad Content Viewer when swipe through the last slides of the articles

Some of co-workers and clients reported and issue with the presentations and the viewer: some times grey screens appear when swiping in an presentation from article to article (reproducible only for the last slide of the article).
Pre-conditions:
1. Folio with several articles (3-4 is good).
2. Articles should have different number of slides.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open folio on iPad and go to the last slide of each article.
2. Swipe from article to article (better from the first one article to the last one)..
Expected outcome: Last slide of the next article is displayed.
Actual outcome: Grey screen is displayed instead of the last article. Some times it's needed to swipe fast to reproduce the issue. Or at least on the last slide you'll see grey screen instead of the content.
Content will be displayed if you scroll up the page. Seems that new (additional) page is added after the last slide of an article and disappeared after scrolling the page.
Notes: Reproducible with the latest version of adobe viewer (i'm using v31(3.4.3.0.96281). NOT reproducible in iPad Content Viewer with version 3.2.1.3.85505.
Maybe somebody knows the root cause of this issue and how to fix it?

I can confirm that I've seen this happen but beyond that, I can't help.

MOV exported from Keynote - last slide disappears, audio continues playing

I have a series of three mov files that were created in & exported from Keynote. They are audio & slide shows that are to autoplay on a website. Two of the files function as expected once embedded in the website, one does not; the last slide drops out (displaying a white screen) while the audio continues for approximately 30 seconds until the mov file ends. To add confusion to the issue ALL the files play as expected using Safari (on Win & Mac). Using Firefox on Mac delivers the "broken" results. Using ANY browser on Windows yields the broken result.
Any suggestions from anyone as to what could be causing this? A link to the website I'm talking about is below. The problem file is on index2.html

Hi,
Since I am trying to do a number of things with Keynote, I read these discussions looking for opportunities and pitfalls.
I read your message, and saw your outcome as an issue. Since I've yet to add the soundtrack to my current project, I needed to know more about the outcome before I proceeded, in order to adjust accordingly.
I took my project, and added a song as the soundtrack. I played the slideshow, and the soundtrack played along, across the slides as it should. I then began to record the slideshow, but the soundtrack came playing through the speakers and was being picked up by the microphones, so I offed the speakers, donned my headphones, and re-began the recording. The soundtrack was playing (in the headphones), and I was narrating across many slides.
I played the recorded slideshow, and all was present - soundtrack and recorded narration.
I exported to Quicktime, sending the output to a new folder so that it could easily be found, along with anything else that might be generated. Upon completion, there was only one movie file in the folder. I opened and played it in Quicktime. It was perfect - slides looked good, narration was there, and the soundtrack was playing in the background.
This outcome appears to be your objective, so I'm not sure what I did differently than you, but from this experience, it works as should be expected.
Good luck.

Clicking a button returns a user to the last slide he/she visitied

Is there a way in Captivate to create a button that will
return a user to the last slide he/she visited instead of going
back to a previous slide?

I guess not, if you are saying that the "Previous Slide"
won't work. Just so I don't get too lost, are you saying that the
previous slide is
not what the user viewed last? As in, they got to this slide
through a "jump" from another.
I wonder if Java-script's "history" command could help. I
don't think so, because it doesn't involve a HTML document history,
and to my knowledge, there is no Flash action-script equivalent for
that Java-script call ... (???)
Captiv8tor usually follows along behind me looking to add his
version of help to my posts, so maybe he can give us more
information on the use of Java-script or Action-script to
accomplish what you need. Good luck! Larry

Keynote 08 Flash Export not compatible with Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

Hello
Our company uses Keynote extensively for presentations. We also give presentations online using Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (hosted, formerly known as Macromedia Breeze - <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/>). Where as it's a great environment for online seminars (best I've seen), it fails dramatically when you upload a looping Flash file created in Keynote. I first tried this in Keynote '06 and now in '08.
When I tried in Keynote 06, the animation was three slides looping, synced to an audio track. When I tried in '08, it was one slide with (the new) animations looping over 20 seconds (or so) without a soundtrack.
I have some contact with Adobe, and this issue has been sent to their engineering department, but they seem to think there's something funky about the format of the file that Keynote exports. I'm trying to gather more data for them to investigate with.
Does anyone know what version of Flash Apple's export is most like? Do we have any specs on the file export format?
Has anyone tried using Flash exports in other Flash-using online environments?
Thanks!
~brian

I believe I figured it was somewhere between Flash 5 and Flash 6. I say this because while the resulting presentations could be opened in QuickTime (which only uses Flash 5) a better result would be achieved by viewing in the browser. Either that, or QuickTime's Flash 5 support isn't complete.

Reviewing content in LMS, Captivate jumps to last slide

I have a course with several files in the tree. Captivate plays its content just fines and it triggers the next file after the student views all slides. However, if the student wants to go back and review the material, Captivate will flash the first slide, then jump to the last slide.
I have Escape Version and Session ID unchecked.
Pass/fail checked
SCORM 2004 checked
Report to LMS as Score
Slide views only - Slide view Completion 100 (is that the # of slides or the percentage of slides?)
Reporting Level = Interatction and Scores
I also have the Template set to SendTrackingDataAtEnd
Is there any way to have CP just stay on the first slide?
Thank you.
Regards,
Kevin

Thank you Lilybiri. I checked the 'Nevers Send Resume Data' and that seemed to work.
I think the only drawback would be if the content is lengthy and the student stops and later goes back in to view the conten, they would probably have to start at the beginning again. The only way I could see getting around that would be to use the TOC and then a student could choose the stop they left off.
Regards,
Kevin

How to make the last slide stay on the screen ?

Hi,I need to make the last slide of my animation to remain on the screen when the animation ends and also when I export in a quick time movie .
Does anyone can help me?

A possible workaround would be to have something appear (like a shape) as a build outside the slide's viewing boundary (if you extend the size of the window, you'll see you have some workspace outside the slide) autmatically after the animation is finished, and set a delay time or build duration based on how long you need the slide to remain on the screen. How this works will depend on your setup for quicktime export.

Slide views only to be reported, but grade is reporting to lms as 0 instead of n/a

My client has a number of quiz questions throughout their course. They asked that the quiz be set up to allow infinite attempts until the learner gets the answer right, and that there are no points or grade associated with the quiz. I've set up each question as a quiz question, but set the grade to be 0. I did it as a quiz question as there are matching type questions, multiple choice, etc. and I found it valuable to have the structure in place to add in the content. The reporting preferences are set up as to report back slide views only, but when this file communicates with the LMS, it is reporting back a pass/complete but giving a grade of 0. I'd like it to show up as n/a under the grade rather than 0.
Also, this course isn't booking marking and learners aren't happy because when they go back in their answers aren't saving. As well, the client wanted backward movement to be allowed but when the learner clicks the back button to go back through the slides, it automatically resets the question slides and they have to re-answer them to continue. Is there a way to change a setting so that the answers will stay in place?
And my last question (promise, sorry for so many) under the quiz settings and then required there are 4 options. I'm just wondering if anyone can explain these 4 options and what each do, so that I can make sure I'm selecting the best one. Up until now it's been a trial/error type of thing, but it would be great if anyone can share some additional info.

Thanks so much! I'm the only one working in Captivate, and so I can't even tell you how helpful it is to have replies and people that understand what I'm asking.
I looked into the manifest file, but I couldn't seem to find the masteryscore text. Here's a copy and paste of my manifest file. Am I missing something?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<manifest identifier="captivate client and family centred care_ID" version="1.3" xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:imscp="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1"
xmlns:adlcp="http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_v1p3"
xmlns:imsss="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsss"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1 imscp_v1p1.xsd
      http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_v1p3 adlcp_v1p3.xsd
      http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsss imsss_v1p0.xsd
      http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/LOM lomStrict.xsd">
<metadata>
<schema>ADL SCORM</schema>
<schemaversion>CAM 1.3</schemaversion>
<lom xmlns="http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/LOM">
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    <identifier>
     <catalog>Adobe Captivate Course</catalog>
     <entry>captivate client and family centred care_ID</entry>
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     <string language="x-none">captivate client and family centred care_Course_Title</string>
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    <description>
     <string language="x-none"></string>
    </description>
    <keyword>
     <string language="x-none"></string>
    </keyword>
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   <lifeCycle>
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     <string language="x-none">1.0</string>
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    <status>
     <source>LOMv1.0</source>
     <value>final</value>
    </status>
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    <identifier>
     <catalog>test</catalog>
     <entry>test 1000</entry>
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<organization identifier="captivate client and family centred care_ID_ORG">
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            <file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.js"/>
            <file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.swf"/>
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SCORM 1.2 and Saba - Reporting a 0 Score for Track Slide views

Good morning,
We have just transitioned over to our new LMS, Saba. To say the transition has been rocky would be an understatement. So, here is what I am dealing with:
I have a very basic reader course where I want to grant someone credit once they have viewed all slides. I am using SCORM 1.2 and setting either "User Access Only" or "Slide Views Only." If I use slide views, I set it to 1, it sends a 0 score to the LMS, even if the user views all slides. I have been able to create a fix by assigning a point value to a click box or button at the screen where I want the user to get credit. However, this does not seem to be what was intended.
Below are screen shots of my publishing commands, Saba screens, and communication report between Saba and CP.
Content Communication Log with Saba
Content Communication Log
July 14, 2011 5:34:43 AM PDT
Command Received = LMSInitialize
Content Item: Super_Instructor_Role
July 14, 2011 5:34:43 AM PDT Response data (Data sent by Saba LMS to content) =
cmi.core.student_id = EEFIELDS1
cmi.core.student_name = Fields, Eric
cmi.core.credit = credit
cmi.core.entry = ab-initio
cmi.core.lesson_mode = normal
cmi.launch_data =
cmi.suspend_data =
cmi.core.lesson_location =
cmi.core.lesson_status = not attempted
cmi.core.score.raw =
cmi.core.score.min =
cmi.core.score.max =
cmi.core.total_time = 00:00:00
cmi.comments =
cmi.comments_from_lms =
cmi.student_data.mastery_score =
cmi.student_data.max_time_allowed =
cmi.student_data.time_limit_action = exit,message
cmi.student_preference.audio = 0
cmi.student_preference.text =
cmi.student_preference.language = 0
cmi.student_preference.speed = 0
July 14, 2011 5:34:45 AM PDT
Command Received = LMSCommit
Data sent by content to Saba LMS:
cmi.core.lesson_status = completed
cmi.core.lesson_location = 0
cmi.core.exit =
cmi.core.score.raw = 0
cmi.core.score.max = 0
cmi.core.score.min = 0
cmi.core.session_time = 00:00:01
cmi.suspend_data = A1Enone%24nP000AA000AA
cmi.student_preference.audio = 0
cmi.student_preference.language = 0
cmi.student_preference.speed = 0
cmi.student_preference.text = 0
cmi.comments =
July 14, 2011 5:34:45 AM PDT Response data =
error=0
July 14, 2011 5:34:59 AM PDT
Command Received = LMSFinish
Data sent by content to Saba LMS at the time of exit:
July 14, 2011 5:34:59 AM PDT Response data =
error=0
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric Fields
Sr. eLearning Consultant
Coventry Health Care

I would suggest you try using Percent instead of Score, and set the Slide View completion percentage to 100 instead of 1.
Change Reporting Level to Score instead of Interactions and Score.
You haven't shown the screen for Quiz > Pass or Fail settings, but you need to set the passing percentage there to 100% as well if you intend that the learner must view every single slide.
Bear in mind that when using slide views, if you have any navigation buttons on the slides that are set to jump to the next slide when clicked, then the learner does not get a completion mark for those slides. In Captivate you have to watch a slide all the way to the last frame in order to get it marked as completed. If for some reason you need to get slides marked as completed despite not being viewed (e.g. when using branching) then you can use our TickTOC widget to gain credit for those slides that are missed or not watched to the end.
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/ticktoc
If you suspect that not all slides will be viewed, you can adjust the Pass/Fail percentage to something less than 100% to allow for the missed ones.
Try these changes and see if it works.
Once you DO find the settings that allow Captivate to work with SABA I would be very interested to know what they were. I've got a page on my website where I want to show the Captivate config settings for SABA: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/lms_guide/saba I don't have access to this LMS myself, but perhaps you or other SABA users on this forum can contribute information to make it easier for others to work with it.

Two Flash export errors

I've only recently started using Encore and am enjoying it so far. The slide show feature appears to be a bit buggy, but the Flash export feature looked interesting so I gave that a try. Creating the flash export was easy, but there were two errors in the code it generates.
In index.htm I had to edit the parts shown the bold in the line-
Original:
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Changed:
<div style="border: 4px solid #000; width: 960px; height: 540px;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="960" height="540" id="flashdvd" align="middle">
I was exporting as a 960x540 video. Before the change the video was displayed right of center. After, it was centered. In the preview of the template the video was centered.
Also, the three png files in the Sources folder had to be renamed to remove the space in the file name. I was not able to upload those files to my web server. I had to change the references to those files in the AuthoredContent.xml file.
Anyway, you may have the same problem, and maye the right people will see this and fix it.

Hey Neil,
Thanks for replying. When I author DVD's, I use the basic encoding standards you listed above.
In this case, since the output is not written media, I was encoding in a way that would give me the best possible results (in theory at least) when planning on flv being the final encoded output, where lowest possible file size with best possible quality is the goal (since it's home will be on the web, not a DVD).
As for my issue with the errors generated from the Export to Flash option, I have learned some things, and was able to successfully Export to Flash.
One thing is that apparently the Flash encoder that EncoreDVD CS3 uses is not the same as the Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder or whatever Flash encoding engine Premiere uses. Encore's Flash output settings are limited, and so are the results.
What I had to do was export my PP CS3 projects to Flash using Adobe Media Encoder and update the XML that Encore spits out accordingly to point to my newly encoded flv's, replacing the flv's that Encore created... not a big deal, but one extra step and little more waiting time.
Now, the results are stunning! And since I'm not comfortable in Flash CS3 or coding ActionScript, having Encore create the menu interface, with all the navigation and interactivity and such, for me was a big BIG plus!

LMS not reporting complete for slide views

Hi,
I am trying to get my captivate projects to report competion status as complete to the LMS based on slide views. For testing I have created a very simple two slide Captivate. Both slides have 3 second durations, one caption each and nothing else, so the whole project runs for 6 seconds without any pauses, quizes or interactions of any kind. I have used SCORM cloud to view the SCORM calls being made by the package, and it is not reporting completion to the LMS.
I am using the following settings in reporting:
Any help will be really appreciated. Im about to watch http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=set_registered&id=1775550&loc=en_us to see if that can help. My backup plan is to put an interaction on the last slide but that's going to mess with my quiz results for the projects that do include quizzes (This is also why im reporting Quiz Results and Slide Views).
Note: with these settings, passing a quiz causes the captivate to report completion.
Thanks for any help
Andrew Downes

I'm not sure of this and defer to any contrary/additional replies that may follow...but...
Past versions of CP have required some sort of scored interaction in order for the lesson to properly report via SCORM to the LMS.
If you have a CP lesson without any scored interactions (no 'reporting'), that may be why completion is being recorded to the LMS.
SO try setting up one scored interaction as you suggest.
For CP lessons that do have quizzes, you won't need that separate scored interaction.
You'll also likely want to change you settings to just 'Slide Views Only' if you just want completion reported based on them viewing the whole project, and I suspect Slide View Completion should be 100, not 10...
Let us know how that goes...
Erik

Reporting slide views only

Using Captivate 5 and my courses will be published to an SAP LMS and I'd like to give a passing mark when the student has viewed the entire course instead of requiring them to get the quiz questions correct.
Initially, I was making the last forward navigation part of the score, but I am wondering if Slide Views Only will work. If I have 20 slides in my lesson and set that to 20, can that be used to impart a complete or pass mark?

Hello Darren,
I'm using another LMS, so not sure that this works for all! And moreover, I'm not sure that a slide is considered as viewed if its total timeline has not played. That happens often in a CP-file, just an example: if you insert a button, with as Success action 'Go to Next Slide', the part of the timeline after the pausing point will not be played, thus the slide will not be considered as totally viewed.
Is this a linear course or do you allow to go Back? I have proposed a solution somewhere in a thread, by creating a user variable as a counter, that will be incremented whenever a slide is visited for the first time (on Enter event, because that will always be executed, which is not the case for On Exit). And activate a button on the last slide with a score that will be only made visible when the counter has reached the total amount of slides. If this score is set as passing score, this should work with any SCORM-compliant LMS.
Lilybiri

Flash Exporter vs Adobe Media Exporter

Can someone explain how After Effects chooses which exporter to use for FLVs?
I have 3 different scenarios and 3 different exporters are showing up in After Effects. I would prefer to use the Flash exporter since that one seems to give us the best results.
In CS2 on my PC when I do export FLV the Flash exporter shows up.
http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/After%20Effects%20and%20Flash%20settings-thumb.gif
My co-worker just installed CS3 and when he does this option he gets the new Flash Exporter. But he can't use it because it says for him to use the render Queue. When he uses the render Queue the Adobe Media Exporter is used.
http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/pro/export/images/vCS3_exportsettings-winmedia. gif
We do not like the results that the Adobe Media Exporter gives even when using the same settings. I never liked using in Premiere because I always had bad results and it seemed to crash a lot.
The last scenario is using CS3 on my MAC. When I do export FLV I am able to use the new Flash exporter. When going through the render queue I get the Adobe Media Exporter.
The best option would be the render queue with the Flash Exporter.
Can someone explain why there is not just one option? And why I can't set which one I want to use. We do have the Flash exporter installed on all three machines. Any help would be great!

Thanks for the reply Mylenium. I really don't want to go into the problems I am having with the encoded files. I am really just trying to understand why there are 2 separate exporters. I have done some more digging and apparently the Flash Exporter (FLV) is a quicktime exporter. Which is the one we would prefer to use. We are having errors with this exporter and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't work.
We are mainly having difference in encode times and quality loss when using the Adobe Media Encoder. We are exporting projects that use screen shots (which is not what AE is for.) I do notice the difference in time when exporting video projects but I have not taken the time to compare the 2 apples to apples.
Like I said I just want to understand why we are getting errors with the FLV exporter by QT.

Returning to LAST slide of PREVIOUSLY loaded movie

Hello all!
I am truly stumped. I have a lengthy project that needed to
be broken apart into about 15 different Captivate movies that will
load seamlessly to the user. My problem occurs when users click the
back button. If they are on the first screen of the 3rd movie,
clicking back only replays the first screen again and again. I need
them to be able to click the back button and load the LAST slide of
the 2nd movie. Make sense?
I have tried using the Captivate Player - a great tool, by
the way! Has anyone found a way to tweak the player to accommodate
this problem, or does anyone have any other tools or suggestions?
Thank you so much for any help! I've spent weeks trying to
figure this out, and I'm pulling my hair out!
Tracy

Hi TracyAbney
This isn't currently possible, nor am I aware of any existing
workaround. But I certainly don't know everything. Those Flash
developer types are pretty darn creative!
If you think it would be a worthwhile featue, you could
certainly request it by
clicking
here.
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