Navigation buttons directing to incorrect slide

I have a project where the navigation actions are working as expected until I arrive at a specific slide (Slide 39). When I click the navigation button there, it's action is set to jump to slide 40, but each time it jumps to slide 34. I have deleted and replaced it still the same. I have changed it from a button to a click box and back. Still the same. There are not Slide actions for Enter or Exit. I am a bit confused.

It was the quiz settings and another issue in combination. My presentation has many branches; so many that a Christmas tree would look like a dead stick in comparison, and a couple of the buttons on slides had been selected as needing to be included in the quiz. Since the presentation was branching around some of those slides it appears that the quiz setting, which I had not even considered, became an issue with the navigation. Now not did the originally reported problem clear up, another navigation issue was resolved as well. Thank you for your reply!!

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Navigation Buttons, and Branching

I have a project with about 100 slides. I originally didn't expect to have to do any "Branching," so I thought I'd just use a standard skin for navigation. Turns out that I am now requuired to branch to some optional information, and return when done. I had a smaller project where I just went in and added buttons to go back and forth, and jump around. I dread the thought of having to do that again with all 100 slides.
Is there a way to add a button to all slides at once, or disable the back and forward buttons on the skin, for just one or two slides?
By the way, I've read on this forum that you can have the user go back to where he left off, when he jumped to the branch and returned. For the life of me, I can't find info on how to accomplish this.

Hi there,
Thanks for reaching Adobe Community. You can manage branching between slides through the branching panel. It can be accessed through Window>Branching View. You can refer to the below mentioned links for further help:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/08/captivate-training-let%E2%80%99s-explore-the-bran ching-view-in-adobe-captivate-5-5.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/captivate/cp/using/WSedb8e841cbc0b796-7e01079512800b31423-8000 .html
Coming to your other questions, you cannot use a button to all the slides at once but you can instead use Master Slides for such purpose. You can insert a Smart Shape on your Master Slide and use it as a button from the Properties pane on the right hand side. You can disable the back and forward buttons on the playbar through skin editor but unfortunately they will be disabled for the entire project.
Hope the above information helps!
Thanks!
Shekhar

Can I make a button not make a slide continue?

Hi.
I looked for this question, but could not find an answer, so I'm hoping I'm re-posting something already answered. If so, I will accept my verbal chasisement.
Anyway...
I am attemping to create a "click and reveal' type interaction in Captivate 4 using buttons and hiding/unhiding objects. Essentially, when the user clicks button A, it will reveal image A and Caption A . When they click button B, through the magic of multiple actions, image A and Caption A will disappear and image B and Caption B will appear....etc. These buttons are at about 5 or so seconds into the timeline.
Around 28 seconds into the slide timeline, I have a "Back" and "Next" button that I use for user navigation instead of using the navigation buttons on the skin. This will pause the slide until the user clicks one of them to be navigated to the next slide or previous slide.
The problem I am running into is that if the user "lingers" on the slide and clicks back and forth between buttons A, B, C, etc. to re-look at all the objects, clicking on any of those buttons will continue the slide which is paused by the "Back and Next" buttons at the end of the timeline. Try as I might, I just can't make the slide pause and wait until the user actually clicks the "Next" or "Back" buttons when I click buttons A, B, and C over and over to re-look at the images and captions.
So is there any way to tell a button NOT to continue the slide? I want my buttons A, B, and C to do the multiple actions i have assigned them (show and hide objects) but do NOT want them to make the slide continue at the pause implemented by my navigation buttons.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Rob

Hi there
Actually I do believe there is a way to make the behavior what you want. But I'll address your issue for making things known to Adobe first. Adobe has something called the "Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form" that they monitor. So you use that. (Link to that is in my sig line)
As for the button issue, you can accomplish it using Advanced Actions. What you need to do is to manipulate the Playhead to keep it paused. One way is by configuring the variable rdcmndGotoFrame with the value rdinfoCurrentFrame. Sometimes this works to just keep the playhead paused. Other times I've tried to do it with some success by repositioning the playhead farther upstream and allowing it to "float" back to the pause point of the object. And to do this you use the variable rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume and assigning it the frame number earlier in time. Of course, to do this you must first calculate the frame number to position at. I normally did this by inserting a Text Caption configured to present the rdinfoCurrentFrame variable and manipulating the pause points using a Click Box object to arrive at the desired value.
Cheers... Rick
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Slideshow navigation buttons not working.

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I believe in AS1/2 you can set a depth at any value.
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How to redirect navigation button to typepad?

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Anyone with any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am out of ideas. I am new to Flash CS4 so I may be doing something stupid. I created my assests on Photoshop CS4 and imported them into flash as flash layers. I followed a training video by Paul Trani about creating a first website. I have several pages in my site, home, about, contact, photos etc. I created navigation buttons for the homepage and they work great. However on my other pages I created different buttons as they are in a different place and have some additional buttons that the homepage does not have (except the contact page has common buttons to the homepage). I put the homepage and second page (contact) actions on frame 1. I then created a new keyframe at frame 20 where the rest of the pages uses common buttons. I then changed the language in the action script so as not to conflict with the frame 1 action script. I had trouble making the second group of buttons work so I created a new actions layer (actions2) and they work, except...
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Slide Navigation not working on revisiting slide

Hi,
I've got a presentation in 5.5 where one of the slides (Slide 5) has audio, some user entry textboxes, some clickboxes with advanced actions and couple of navigation buttons that appear as soon as the slide appears, a "Back" button which jumps to the previous slide, and "Next" which goes to the next slide, which is a multiple choice question slide (Slide 6) with Clear/Back/Skip/Next.
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Menu Navigational Buttons

I have created a DVD in Premier Essentials 12. The navigational forward and back menu buttons work in the completed movie's "Disc Preview" mode on the computer, but these navigational buttons showed up but did not work on the burned DVD. Why not and how can I fix?

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Hope this helps. I will work on trying to burn a DVD with just the preset menus and see if the forward/back buttons work then. My question is in order to do this, do I have to make an actual movie using my clips in order to get the menus to work? I don't want mess around with anything on my current "family DVD" (except get the forward/back buttons to work!).
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:50:08 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Menu Navigational Buttons
    Re: Menu Navigational Buttons
    created by A.T. Romano in Premiere Elements - View the full discussion
GagaDVDMaker
I do not recall if I asked "When you are not seeing the previous and next buttons, how many menu pages do you have?"
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Main Menu
Scene Menu page 1
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Scene Menu page 3
Are previous and forward buttons not seen any where?
ATR
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