Open Other Project Feature Follow up ?

I just posted a question in regards to "Open Other Project"
button giving me inconsistent results. I was reading other posts to
try to find an answer when something I read made me question
myself.
When I am setting "Open Other Project" as an option, I
actually typed the name of the file that I want to link to. For
instance I type Interview. I do not add .exe to the end of the file
or .cp. Okay, I just thought about trying to select the exe file
from the ...button but realized that it would only allow me to
connect to a .cp file. Hmmmmm.
So, my question is - did I mess up by typing the name of my
file with no extension? Should I actually be linking to another .cp
file? Since these all need to be executables, will I have issues
with the Interface searching for .cp file instead of an .exe?
Hope this makes some kind of sense to someone.
Thanks,
Kim

Thanks for the response Rick. Did you happen to see my other
post about my exe files not closing when they open another project?
It is causing me some MAJOR issues. Basically if the interface
doesn't close, then the file that it is trying to switch to takes a
very long time to open and could cause the user to think they need
to click on the button again which as you can imagine creates an
even bigger issue. Any thoughts?

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Open Other Project not closing original file

Hello All,
I have a total of 55 exe files that are all accessed through
one captivate file called "Interface". I am experiencing some
inconsistent errors with the "Open other project" feature when
testing this on a computer other than my own. Basically, a user
will be in the interface file and click on a course they would like
to take. Let's say for example, they choose to take an interviewing
course. When they click Interviewing, the interface disappears and
they see the desktop or sometimes a white screen while Interview is
being opened. Sometimes, the course never shows up so I use my
CTL+Alt+Delete/Task Manager to view what has happened and I am
finding that Interface and Interview are both open and are
minimized on my toolbar. If the user doesn't use CTL+ALT Delete,
they would never even know their course opened because for some
reason they can only see a white screen. Ideally, I would like the
Interface file to close down as soon as the user clicks on another
course. I have it set to "Open Other Project" and selected Current
but still it is keeping the Interface open (sometimes). Again, the
errors are pretty inconsistent. One day it works perfectly and the
next day I am getting what I described above. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Kim

Hi Kim
It's common that the EXE format doesn't close when opening
another project. So here's something you may wish to try. Button
and Click Box objects normally allow the slide to continue playing
when clicked by the user. Assuming all of them are identically
timed for the pause, you might simply allow a click on any of them
to allow the project to continue playing. Then configure the end
action to be that of closing the project.
My thought here is that perhaps a click on the object (Click
Box or Button) will cause the project to continue briefly, then
terminate. This should close it down. Then at the end of the
projects you linked to, have their end action to be to open the
menu back up. Then have them close down.
Hopefully that makes a bit of sense.
Cheers... Rick

Problems with "Open other project" in menu builder

Hi everyone,
I have a series of projects that I want to link together
using the menu builder of the "Skin Editor" dialog.
I create my menu items, and for each item choose "Open other
project" in the "On click" dropdown. I then choose the project that
I want the menu item to open. For this example, lets say I chose a
project named "Viewing_Patients"
However, when I publish the project, run it, and then use the
menu to open the next project, it just opens up a browser window
trying to access the URL "
http://Viewing_Patients.htm/
Why is that?
To check my sanity, I created a Click Box in one of the
project's slide where I chose the exact same configuration - "Open
other project" for the "On success" dropdown, and the
"Viewing_Patients" project as the project to open when the box is
clicked.
And this works fine (it opens the "Viewing_Patients" project)
Why is my menu failing but not my click box?
Thanks very much in advance for any help!
- eriiki - tubbs -

Hello Slothrop206,
Try the following steps:
1) Change your Action to be "Open URL or file"
2) Key in the relative URL to the movie you are attempting to
link. If it is in the same directory, simply key in the file name
of the .swf you are attempting to load.
3) Publish and test.
Let us know if this works for you.

Open Other Project - Does Not Function

Hello -
We are finishing a CBT lesson in Cap 3 which includes 29
seperate projects. At the end of each project the student is
presented a button to take them to the next project, i.e. "Open
Other Project".
Here lies the issue, we have set this button to "Open other
project" and "Open URL or file". In both case the next project does
not open. The user is taken to an internet search page. We set up
the button "On Success" feature using the Captivate Help files
where it instructs you to remove all of the system paths and just
use the project or file names. Also confirmed button settings in
Advanced Interaction.
We are publishing our projects in .exe formats. This isuue is
present when we preview it using the preview feature and from the
.exe products.
What are we doing wrong, any ideas?

Hi again
I just conducted a brief test using a Button object and the
exact file names you listed. Things worked as expected on my end.
This is actually good news, as it suggests Captivate 3 isn't to
blame. Instead, something is wonky with your project(s).
One thing that strikes me here is that you say you are seeing
a Web Browser open. This suggests your button is programmed to
"Open URL or File" and not "Open other project". You may wish to
double check that. If you examine it and it already says "Open
other project", you may wish to delete that button and insert a new
one. Maybe somehow it became corrupt and is retaining the Open URL
or File setting and not respecting the Open other project setting.
Cheers... Rick

"Open other project" always fails

Hello all,
I have been trying to figure out how to get the project end
option "Open other project" to work.
I am using two small SWFS, linking one to the other, but at
the end of the first project I get the "Page cannot be displayed"
message despite the fact the files are stored on a public server
with no access restrictions.
Can anyone explain and/or point me to an explanation?
The preocess seems straightforward. what am I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Best,
Brett

Hello Slothrop206,
Try the following steps:
1) Change your Action to be "Open URL or file"
2) Key in the relative URL to the movie you are attempting to
link. If it is in the same directory, simply key in the file name
of the .swf you are attempting to load.
3) Publish and test.
Let us know if this works for you.

Open other Project is not working

Guys, I have a problem with Open other Project ..heres is the situation.
I have 2 .exe file.
1. start
2. main
inside the start, I have this button which execute Open other project which is the Main. whenever I clicked it, a URL appear with main.html in the address bar.
What could be the problem?
I have done this a couple of months..it was working then..but now huhuhu.
Thanks

Oh no! this thing only works in AST2.. When I use AST3 it open a URL. OH NOOO!!! i have AST3 clock inside the MAIN. what should I do?

Open other Project: New, Parent, Top

To reduce the amount of slides in my project, I was thinking
of creating a kind of branching action not using Menu Builder, but
rather using "Open other Project". My goal is to have a page where
you click one of 4 buttons that will each take you to a separate
project. Let’s say one button is for a logon process,
selecting this button will open up the logon process project, play
it & then return to the page that has the original 4 buttons on
it. So with this, I have a couple questions. Is my goal feasible?
What are the differences between the Current, New, Parent, Top
options? Any suggestions on how I can get this to work?
Thanks!

Hi B Ellefson
You asked what the differences were between Current, New,
Parent and Top.
These options control the way links behave. Primarily, when
you output to .SWF format. They really have little meaning if you
are outputting to .EXE format.
Let's assume you are inserting a Button or Click Box object
that is programmed to visit
http://www.google.com when clicked
upon by your user.
Current: The google page would totally replace the Captivate
movie the link was clicked from.
New: The google page would open in a new browser instance.
Parent and Top: These two options would only ever be used if
you were displaying your Captivate movie from inside a frameset. As
a result, these options are seldom (if ever) used.
Hopefully this helps a bit... Rick

Open other project

Two questions in one day. I'm on a roll..
I'm running into a problem with the open other project
function. I've published both projects, and I've got the first
project set up to call the second. When the first project calls the
second project, all I get is a blank white square on a web page,
nothing runs. The URL appears to be correct, I've got the second
project's .htm file in the same folder as the first project but
that second project just won't run.
Is it because the folder's are on a network drive versus the
desktop? Is the pointer getting lost trying to get to the second
project?
Any help is mucho appreciated.
Thanks.

Never mind, I just answered my own question. I should have
read a little deeper into the forums...
Thanks
Jimmy

Open other project problem

Hi,
have a project with 4 movies they are linked with open other project button
but in the executable files when I jump from one project to other there is a close up before open the other project.
how can I resolve this?
jv

Hi there
It's just the way things work with EXE files. The thing is, an EXE will temporarily install a Flash Player, then play the movie. Then close as the next EXE opens. Unfortunately there is no way for the EXE to remain open and simply load in the content from the new exe into its window because the new EXE is treated as a new instance.
You might consider suggesting this as an enhancement to the development team. Maybe the Captivate developers can construct a way for things to work differently in a future version.
Cheers... Rick
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How can I open other projects?

I want to open projects, which ı download in planetsourcecode.com in netbeans or in Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8.1.
The problem is that open dialog of JSE or netbeans looks for a directory. And if I try to open the directory which I have downloaded, it doesnt open the project. I tried to do same with my project (made in netbeans) and there was a small sign bottom of the directory icon. And it opened project succesfully. How can I open other projects?

Probably best to firstly copy the media folder - you could Option/drag it to the desktop. Then open a new project and go File/Import that desktop folder.
Let us know if that works out for you.

"Open Other Project" function failing?

New poster...
I have an issue where I'm using a button on my final slide
that has it's "On success" set to "Open other project." The project
it loads is the same swf that is being published (basically, it
reloads itself into it's same window). I made a bunch of software
simulations using this and it worked, but now all of a sudden it
won't work on ANY of my projects. I've tried setting the "Project"
parameter to the published swf, the .cp project file, and even
using "Open URL or file" and linking to the published html--all
these fail. I've compared the settings in my recent project files
to the project files where it's working to compare/contrast
differences and can't see the difference between the projects that
work and those that don't... any clues?

Welcome to our community, dannyhouk
In this case, I would think you should avoid using the "Open
other project" function and instead use the "Open URL or File"
function. Specify the URL of the page that loaded Captivate to
start with.
Cheers... Rick

Open Other Project - Relative Path

I hate to keep asking this question ... but has anyone come up with a workable solution for opening another project in Captivate 4 using a relative path? I see this discussion starting and stopping in various places ... but there never seems to be an answer that works. I can't quite understand why Adobe took this functionality out of this version ... as it has made the product almost useless to me. I need to be able to link from one project to another somehow, and I don't know what the absolute path is going to be when I am creating the training.
I don't know where else to turn for help on this. Anyone?
Thanks.
Marge

Hi there
There could be many factors at play here.
Are you certain Flash Security isn't hindering you?
Click here for help with adjusting security
Cheers... Rick
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Problem opening other project

We had everything working and uploaded it to our server, which was fine, everything worked. However the quiz was opening in a new window which we didnt want so we went back to the properties of the relevant button that launched the quiz and we saw that there is an option in the click box menu on the right which has CURRENT, NEW, PARENT and TOP.
The setting was NEW so we changed it to CURRENT to see what happened and it didnt work at all after uploading so we changed it back and now its not working whatever option we pick (we tried them all)?
Does anyone know what we have done wrong here or what we can possibly check? Currently we are creating a new button to see if that makes any difference.
Using Captivate 4 and IE 6.0
Thanks

Well I found out that the slides had all been
converted from captivate 3 project so i converted them again and replaced the existing files with the newly conv
erted ones and now everything seems to be working again.
Thus I assume it was a corruption of some sort?

Project won't open in RH8 - Other projects open fine

I am using RH HTML 8.02.208, running on Windows XP Professional, I have a project I am unable to open. I am working on my local machine. When I attempt to open this project, RH opens, then stops at, "Loading TOC." My two co-workers are able to open this project without any problems (we zip the file back to the network after working with it). I am able to open other projects on my local machine without any problems - this one is the only problem. I have scoured the forums and tried the usual tricks: Renaming the .cpd file, deleting the .cpd file, opening with .hhk file, etc. Does anyone have any inkling as to why I cannot open this project, but my co-workers can, and I am also able to work with other projects without problems? I would appreciate any direction from the forum. Thanks!
TW

See what happens if one of your co-workers logs onto your machine with their logon.
If it works for them, then it could be something in your profile. However, I would expect that to affect all projects. Anything is worth a try though.
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Need to publish PHP files and be able to "open other movie"

I am hoping someone can help me. I converted my published
captivate projects to PHP per request of my company web team. In
most projects, I link to an addional project using the On success:
"Open other project" command. All projects are .cp files and this
feature has always worked in the past when published and uploaded
my projects as .htm. I can still upload my files as .php with the
.swf file and opening a project from my web page works fine.
However, when I click the link at the end of one project to open
the next, I recieve an error stating the file cannot be found.
Consequently, the file it is looking for is the .htm and I cannot
figure out a way for it to look for the .php file. Because of
company standards, I cannot simply upload all files (.php, .swf,
.htm) as a work around. Does anyone have a procedure to make
Captivate "call" the .php file extention when linking a project
instead of the .htm?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Welcome to our community, Especial del Dia
You might try using the approach of "Open URL or File". Then
point to the URL of the PHP page instead.
I think if I were in your shoes, I'd arrange a meeting with
the web team and see if you can figure out why HTM/SWF are bad and
things MUST be PHP or die. You may just find that after you explain
all the extra effort and time wasted in attempting to be compliant
with what is often some IT person's whim and mandate, things will
change and you will be allowed to publish what has always worked
until IT wanted to change things and break it and point their
fingers at you.
Just thinking out loud... Rick

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