Pausing a Project

I am new to Captivate and am using Captivate 5. I'm doing pretty well so far but have found myself stuck. I've inserted a button which links to a URL. Is there a way to pause my project so the viewer can look at the link? When I play my project it all works great but when when I click on the button and the view the page the project keeps playing thus a viewer is going to miss pages if they spend too much time viewing the link. Am I missing something?
I've tried a click box around the page but haven't been succesful in getting that to work properly in conjunction with a button on the page.
Thanks!

Hello and welcome to the forum,
Open the small button next to the URL-field, if you choose the window New, you can deactivate the option 'Continue Playing the Project'. Here is a screenshot, but this option is here not deactivated. Same if you choose Parent or Top for Window. If you choose Current, it will be automatically deactivated since the URL will be opened in the same window.
Lilybiri

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I am working on a project using Cp4.
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I can pause the project by adding a clickbox and applying the property "pause the project until user clicks.
But it must be a user wish interaction whether to pause or play.
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I tried it out and it works all right. If you do not want a button, you can also replace this by a click box (that is invisible), perhaps covering up the whole slide and instruct the user just to click on the slide to pause or to 'un'-pause.
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Windows 7 OS
I hope I'm missing something obvious here, and I'm more than willing to face-palm if you tell me . Otherwise, I have not been able to find any setting that makes any difference. I would REALLY rather not duplicate the buttons and scripts on every page of the project. Given the blog posts I have seen saying this method should work just fine, I'm hoping there is a side quirk somewhere that I'm missing.
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Without clouding with too much explanation, this technique arose out of a need to deal with (in a different project) objects that were grouped, and wanting to deal with the groups in as simple a way as possible, allow for easy swapping of group assets, and having a few buttons do multiple things. The idea of being able to have multiple interactive buttons stacked on top of each other while appearing for the rest of the project led to trying this simple construct before trying something more complex.
You are correct, that there is a simpler solution, which we ended up using because we were not able to get two interactive buttons stacked on top of each other while displayed for the rest of the project to work properly (although that is SUPPOSED to work, as far as I understand).
Here's what we ended up doing:
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Our hypothesis, then, is that you are not able to stack interactive objects on top of each other and then display for the rest of the project.
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Hello,
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Can you take a screen capture of the offending slides and insert here? (Please don't attach and use the Camera icon instead so we may see them immediately).
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I'm using Captivate 5. At the end of each module, I have a slide with several clickboxes on them. Ideally I want the audio to continue play (9 seconds) while users can click on each option multiple times (except for the one that jumps them to a different slide). In some cases, as below, I want a text box to appear, which I've set up using Advanced Actions.
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This should ensure that your movie remains paused on the same frame when the advanced action is executed.
There are lots of tutorials on doing this kind of thing with Advanced Actions on Lillybiri's blog: http://lilybiri.posterous.com/
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Ok, I got it to work, WOOHOO!!
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rdcmndRewindAndPlay
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2: Don't forget the "cpSkinLoader_mc" in the target path when
passing the commands to the instance that contains the LoadMovie
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