Linking projects, .swf, .htm, etc

Hello;
I am looking for some help in linking multiple demonstrations
into a single presentation. Here is what I need:
I have 4 realitivly large demonstrations (between 100 and 150
slides each)
I need a menu that allows the user to select what
demonistraton they would like to view, then give them the option to
go back to that menu and select another topic when finished.
This presentation will be burned on cd's for our clients so I
would like to have an autorun to launch the menu screen.
What is the best way to accomplish this? I have toyed around
with the CaptivatePlayer some, but that is not ideal in this case
as the menu is not very noticable for an end user that does not
know to look for it. I also had some problems getting the audio to
come over, however I did not mess with it very long so that is
probably an easy fix.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I played with the MenuBuilder as well but I have disappointed
with the lack of visual options. I am not even able to change the
size of a text box. I would like the text to display like this:
Text
Text
Text
But MenuBuilder only shows it like this:
TextTextText.
If I had more formatting options the MenuBuilder would work
fine for my needs.
What I have done in the mean time is to create ClickBoxes in
MenuBuilder, Export them, then Import the Animation into an actual
Captivate slide. This works but it is a pain in the neck and it
just feels like there has to be a better way.
Anyone else have ideas?

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Hello!
I've been having some challenges linking multiple captivate projects together. I've done some research on the forums here and have noticed that this is a pretty common issue. But unfortunately for me, after following the advice that I've read, I'm still having problems. There's obviously something that I must be missing, so I'll do my best to outline what I've done in as much detail as possible in hopes that someone can help me.
Software:
I'm using Captivate version 4.0.1. Build 1658
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I'm creating an e-learning that it is made up of 8 separate projects:
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Project D - Lesson 2 (45 slides)
Project E - Lesson 3 (36 slides)
Project F - Lesson 4 (33 slides)
Project G - Lesson 5 (29 slides)
Project H - Lesson 6 (30 slides)
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I created a folder on my C: Drive named "MyName Captivate", and I published all of the projects to that folder. Additionally, all of the projects are also in that folder as well. When publishing the projects, I'm publishing them as Flash (.swf) files. On the publishing screen, on the "Project Title" field, I left that field unchanged (it defualts to the project's name). The "Folder" field has C:\MyName Captivate in it. I checked "Publish Files to a Folder" and "Export HTML" under Export Options.
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WestCoast,
I believe this is an extremely common issue. Personally, I gave up trying to link projects together like this. I also wanted to offer my users a more "perpetual" interface. I wanted the user, at any time, to be able to switch to another Captivate movie - rather than being forced to navigate through more slides to find the right button to click. So, I created a product called the Launch Pad. It works by using one web page with a menu. Clicking a menu item pulls in a seperate .SWF file into the web page.
One suggestion might be to have your buttons link to fully qualified (http://myserver/myfolder) URLs instead of "projects". Each button links to the HTML file that Captivate publishes. Full URLs with the entire URL of the HTML file seem to work better than relative URLs.

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Although the Open URL or File option DOES create an absolute link by default, if you want to use relative links instead you can change the absolute link info and turn it into a relative link quite easily as long as you use the correct syntax. (Google for info on this or Google search this forum as this has been discussed many times already.)
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