Passing variables from web server to HTML5 Captivate File

I am publishing a Captivate quiz as HTML5 and hosting them on a website. I would like to know how I can pass data from my site to the HTML5 based Captivate quiz.
So far I have had success getting data out of captivate by having the file POST the results of a finished quiz to a RESTful route. However, I have not had success putting data into the file. I would like to pass information such as User ids and quiz ids, maybe even current slide position so that I can associate the quiz information with my database. I am not specifically looking for a solution to user ids, quiz ids, etc. because I can get creative in that regard, I just want to know if others have been able to set variables on Captivate file load.
I have tried a setting variables in a couple ways:
- Declaring the variables with javascript, then ajax loading the page into a div. This caused dependency issues since the captivate file uses relative paths for its assets folder.
- Modifying the published html file by adding the javascript variables, this returned an error message saying I cannot override the existing captivate variables
- Adding the js variables into the init function, this had no effect.

To simply pass the username and an id I used the following.
Note the URL has query string parameters that match the captivate variables
http://mywebsite/Course/index.html?cpQuizInfoStudentID=IDHere&cpQuizInfoStudentName=Studen tNameHere
Another way to do this to use JavaScript to read the query string, and the assign variable in CP to the query string values. I remember reading some more detail, but cant remember where.
Hope it helps
Luke

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set username to text returned of (display dialog "Enter your name" with icon caution default answer "" buttons{"Continue"})
set macname to text returned of (display dialog "Enter name of your Mac" with icon caution default answer "" buttons{"Continue"})
do shell script "export USERNAME=" & quoted form of username & " && export MACNAME=" & quoted form of macname
end tell
EOF
echo "USERNAME is $USERNAME, MACNAME is $MACNAME"
but no luck
Mac-mini:Downloads admin$./new.command
USERNAME is , MACNAME is
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just realized you are returning 2 variables. That can still be handled by echoing/printing the values, you just have to parse the output, or use other tricks.
VALUES=( $(osascript -e '...') )
This would make VALUES an array, with each array element containing one space separate return value from osascript
USERNAME=${VALUES[0]}
MACNAME=${VALUES[1]}
If USERNAME or MACNAME could have spaces in them, you would need to use some kind of separator character. For example if you use @ as the separator you could do something like:
VALUES=$(osascript -e '...')
USERNAME=${VALUES%@*}
MACNAME=${VALUES#*@}
which will %@* will delete everything starting with the @ til the end of the string, and #*@ will delete everything from the beginning of the upto and including the @.
Another trick is to have the return values be properly formed shell variable assignments such as
print "USERNAME='your user name' MACNAME='Your Mac Name' " -- I'm making this up as I do not really know Applescript, so you will have to figure out how to get Applescript to print something that looks like
USERNAME='your user name' MACNAME='Your Mac Name'
In your shell script you have code that looks like:
VALUES=$(osascript -e '...')
eval $VALUES
The eval will execute whatever is stored in $VALUES, and if that happens to look exactly like shell variable assignments, you get the variables created in the current shell context, where can use them.

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