Project expiry date message field - Adobe Captivate 7

Hi,
The 'project expiry date' feature is really useful, but lacks the facility to define the message window size. The message field allows you to input a large amount of characters but the output within the expired project is around 40.
Surely this should allow for at least a basic message to convey that the project has expired and what to do to extend it? Even better would be to allow text formatting too.
Also, having entered text into the message field, saving, closing, and opening again to edit, it doesn't seem to retain changes made.

I started with Captivate 5 then 5.5, 6 etc. Now I am on 8. Every time I switch versions I found the best way to convert a project is to Copy the slides from the old project to a new project. So create a new File on CP 8 and paste all the slides from your earlier version CP 7. It might be time consuming but I never had a problem. Also it is a very good practice to make sure in your preferences you tick the box Generate Project Backup (hours of work can be lost if not).

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I am looking to buy Captivate. But I first need to know how the project expiry date works.
I am currently producing a short course for a company in my area, but our agreement is that they get to use the short course for a period of 3 months. If I create the short course in Captivate, will I be able to set an expiry date on the project? For example, person A buys my short course. After 3 months (or however long) the course expires and he will no longer be able to open the short course. Is this what the expiry function does?
Also, does the expiry function work even if the project is copied from one hard drive to another? For example, if someone makes a duplicate of the project onto a friend's hdd, will both projects still expire after 3 months?
Thanks guys.

Hi there,
I have been a Articulate Storyline users for several years now and am new on the Captivate forum. Someone told me that Captivate can set an expiry date on the course content after being downloaded on an iPad for offline viewing (so without an LMS). In Articulate SL this is not possible unfortunately although a feature request has been made by quit a few. Situation is that I deliver course content to clients operating in remote areas (shipping). It is essential for me to have this feature and will seriously consider changing over to Captivate if this is true.
Could anyone help me out on this one?
Thanks in advance for sharing!
Regards,
John

Set project expiry date on a downloaded course

Hi ,
I am looking at allowing customers to downloaded courses and want to set an expiry date
Is there anyway to set the project expiry date externally
regards Renovator

Hello Xr24N
Unfortunately some customers want to download to use in their LMS
I was hoping to access a system variable via javascript or a hack where i could enter a location in the project expiry date
Pipwerks lists a cap5 variable called
expired
[boolean]
Internal variable. No information available. Best guess: Boolean indicating whether time limit has elapsed.
regards Renovator

Project will be converted from Adobe Captivate 7 to Adobe Captivate 8 format

I upgraded from Captivate 7 to 8 a week ago, but each time I save the project I am working on, I get the same message that it will convert the project from 7 to 8. Each time I click save to accept this, but it just asks again the next time. Also, each time I open Captivate 8 I get a message about my Firewall and each time I check to allow access, but it will just ask me again the next time I open it.
And finally, on Thursday I spent hours working on my project - saving throughout the day, but when I came in Friday all of Thursdays work was gone. I searched my computer for hours, but never found Thursdays work. I obviously have some setting or something off. Any ideas on how to fix any or all of these problems?

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Project Expiry Date - Is this still on the case for less?

Is this still on the case for less?
How do I change?

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Project Start and End Features - Can Captivate Phone Home and Expire ?

Hi,
I am looking at selling a course which the client will host for a limited time
We want the course to expire and we would like to receive anonymous user data back with their permission.
Send data back to use : Phoning home
I was looking at the Project->start and end-> Project end options-> execute javascript
With our clients permission could we use this to open a URL and phone home or would we crash into a firewall and burst into flames ?
Why ?
============
We want to monitor anonymous data such as time on course , score and number of users to improve the course for all customers.
My other thought was to use this widget
http://captivatedev.com/shop/adobe-captivate-6-x-google-lms-widget-with-email-reporting/
Maybe I can run this at the same time as my customers normal LMS
Expire
I was looking at the Project->start and end-> Project expiry date.
Is this relatively secure and stable ?
Our other alternative was to throw a widget in which said this course has expired
Or could I have the course check a website to confirm the course is licensed ?
Any ideas or advice would be appreciated
rgds Renovator
Message was edited by: renovator99

Hi Rod,
Thank-you for your reply from Western Australia ( which I just realized is the closest point to Madagascar and King Julian)
I like the graphs on A3C but
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/06/course-companion-for-adobe-captivate-6.html
- I couldn't work out how to get the A3C viewer to it display more than the first 20 pages.
- it had a 3 month limit on the course based on an Adobe comment on the blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/06/course-companion-for-adobe-captivate-6.html
- I wasn't sure whether the reporting works with advanced actions because some of the reports run on item name
- Nobody seems to be commenting on it on the forums :-)
- There was a distraction % on the table which I couldn't work out what it was
- it was unclear what port had to be open for the A3C communication
rgds Paul

Adobe Captivate 6 activated but acts as a trial version?

Although activated, my Adobe Captivate 6 (eLearning Suite 6.1) acts as a trial version in a sense that Project Expiry Date is disabled and all my project expire after one month.
If I go to Help, the active option is: 'Deactivate....' so there is no way to sort this out by any means available in the application itself.
There is probably a similar behaviour in other elearning suite applications, but I am using only Captivate so I wouldn't know whether that is the case.
My PC is on the corporate network, the eLearning Suite 6.1 is installed only on my PC and I don't have the admin rights.
Is there an option to check the activation status and/or somehow reactivate it again, as it is really annoying to re-publish and upload to company's web portal e-learning files every month.

Hi there
You may need to completely uninstall and reinstall.
Cheers... Rick

CP6 Expiry date

I have several projects that I initiated under a trial version of Captivate 6 but have sense purchased the download and installed captivate. However, I'm still getting a project expiry date of one month from date of publish. I've edited my preferences (renamed the Captivate folder) but I'm still getting the same result. Any suggestions?

Hi there
And you have looked at preferences to ensure the expiration has been disabled and re-published?
Have you made sure that you are current with service releases? (Click Help > Updates...)
If so, it would seem perhaps there is a bug and you should consider reporting it to Adobe.
Click here to submit a bug
Cheers... Rick

Adobe Captivate will not open open within Presenter (Trial version)...

Hello,
I am a subscriber to Adobe Captivate 6 and am in the middle of a 30 day trial of Adobe Presenter. I use Windows 7 Enterprise and have the the 64 bit version of Adobe Captivate 6. I also use Power Point 2007.
I cannot do a software simulation within Adobe Presenter. When I try, I get the error message that Adobe Captivate cannot be started ....
Can anyone help?
Ryan

Regarding this issue error message "(keine Rückmeldung)" / No Response as it's creating the swf file...
It should display the preview window after sometimes. Please wait for sometimes, if No Response text comes. This issue is normally caused due to system load or performance issue. You may face similar issue while publishing, please wait for sometime, till publish finishes.
Regarding this issue.Fatal error in Power Point with Adobe Presenter add-in. If you have seen this error several times, you should deactivate the Add-In and check to see if an update is available. Would you like to deactivate the add-In?
Do you face this issue always? This issue normally arises due to faulty presenter installation or Windows 7 SP1 not installed. This error message doesn't hinder with normal Presenter functioning. If you choose to disable it from this error dialog, then you have to enable it again as per the above steps.

Adobe Captivate 6 won't open

Hi all
I use Adobe Captivate 6 in a corporate environment, and I'm currently experiencing issues running Adobe Captivate 6 after installing it.
For some reason when the laptop is taken off the network Adobe Captivate 6 would refuse to open at all.
Error: "Theme file copying failed. Try manually copying Adobe Captivate theme files from "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 x64\Gallery\Layouts\6_0\en_US" to " \My Adobe Captivate Projects\Layouts\6_0\en_US"
I have searched all the "My Adobe Captivate Projects" folders on the drive and copied the contents from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 x64\Gallery\Layouts\6_0\en_US to all the folders matxhing "My Adobe Captivate Projects" but no avail.
Adobe Captivate 6 will then immediately quit and exit; unable to open Captivate..
Any ideas? Thanks!

There is one major problem / defect with Captivate 6 on corporate networks. Even though it is possible to change the default locations for "Published projects" and "Cache files" it is not possible to change the default location of the Themes folder.
The Themes folder is always stored under My Documents in ”My Adobe Captivate Projects” in a sub-folder called “Layouts”. The "My Adobe Captivate Projects" folder is created under My Documents no matter if you changed the default locations or not. Changing the default location for "My Adobe Captivate Projects" will indeed do just that, and any saved projects will end up in this folder no matter where you place it. Trouble is that Captivate insists on creating that same folder again under "My Documents" to store the theme files.
If you don't have access to "My Documents" when you are offline or disconnected from your network you will not be able to start Adobe Captivate 6 no matter what you do. It will fail and shut down continously and there is nothing you can do about it.
I know this because at my work our My Documents are stored in a Roaming Profile on a server. I do have access to My Documents even if I am disconnected from the network, but we have a storage restriction on the My Documents folder of 100 MB. If you exceed this then the directory will become read only (which also makes Captivate go fubar and not start). Now this is a rather big problem since the Captivate themes folder take up 162 MB, so already upon installation of Captivate my storage restriction for My Documents is exceeded.
So in my infinite wisdom I decided to just delete the theme files as I didn't plan on using them anyways, but it turns out that is not possible.. Well of course you can delete them, but every single time you open up Captivate 6 it recreates the themes in your My Documents folder and once again screws everything up. I contacted Adobe about this and was notified that there is no way around this. The themes must be placed in My Documents and if you delete the folder then Captivate will recreate it again. I later found out that you actually only need to keep "blank.cptm" and "white.cptm" but can delete all other files (provided that one of these two is set as your default theme). That means that the Themes folder will "only" take up 20 MB of space in My Documents instead of the 162 MB. This is of course better and allows me to actually use Captivate, but it's still 20 MB wasted space of my precious alotted 100 MB.
So.. If you don't have a My Documents folder when you are working offline from the network you will never get Captivate 6 to work.
In my humble opinion this is a major design defect in Captivate 6. I sincerely can't understand how such an oversight can be made when you would expect that a large percentage of the Captivate users are actually working on corporate networks. I don't really see the reasoning for hardcoding the path to the Themes folder so it is placed in My Documents regardless of what you set the default locations to. Apparently Captivate has no problem actually grabbing the files from the installation directory and recreating the folder every time you delete it, so it would have made more sense to just make Captivate read the theme files from the installation directory to begin with.
I wrote this article - http://www.cpguru.com/setting-up-adobe-captivate-6-in-a-corporate-environment/ - back in August about the problems I had getting Captivate 6 to work on a Corporate Network. However, it won't do you any good if you do not have a My Documents folder when you are disconnected from the network unfortunately.
Sincerely,
Michael

Adobe Captivate Reviewer - won't load .crev file in Vista

Using Reviewer for the first time (Captivate 4 on Vista box).
Downloaded Reviewer from email link
Clicked on .crev file from email link
In the Reviewer, got message "Unable to load SWF file. Try opening Adobe Captivate Reviewer in the Administrator mode" (see pic)
Clicked OK
Clicked the .crev file in email link again per message "Load Adobe Captivate Movie (.crev, .swf., or .zip)"
Got same "unable to load.... " message again (see pic). Viscious circle here
Downloaded Reviewer to my XP machine - all works like it should.
What do I need to do to my Vista box (primary machine) for the Reviewer to work?
SMILES
Susann

This issue arises because, for some reason, the adobe developer(s) have hard coded a temporary file location of "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate Reviewer <X>*\workspace" to store the .crev, .swf or .zip file when you open it from its original location. In most corporate environments "\Program Files\ or \Program Files (x86)\" is, correctly, restricted to non-administrative users to ensure the integrity of managed applications and the industry standards for temporary storage have been long established as \temp\, \windows\temp\ or <user profile>\appdata\temp\
The corporate workaround to your issue is relatively simple. Your user account needs to be granted the privilege to be able to create and own the workspace folder in the above location. If this is not feasible then you could always just copy the entire contents of "C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\Adobe\Adobe Captivate Reviewer <X>*" to a location on your machine where you have full access, i.e. your desktop.
Ultimately Adobe development need to update the code in Adobe Air.dll to create the workspace in a temporary folder that conforms to industry standards
* (with <X> indicating the version of Captivate Reviewer)

I am an MBA student , doing a research project on e-learning authoring tools, would like to find out no. of licences sold/active to date for adobe captivate. how many get sold every year. any pointers/help is appreciated. cheers.

I am an MBA student , doing a research project on e-learning authoring tools, would like to find out no. of licences sold/active to date for adobe captivate. how many get sold every year. any pointers/help is appreciated. cheers.

I doubt you'll get an answer in a user forum, sorry. This forum is meant for users to help other users when they have problems that have to be solved. You should contact Adobe itself.

Adobe Captivate - Resume Data Bookmarking feature

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I am using Adobe Captivate 5.5. The OS is Windows 7.
I have created a module recording the details of the screen actions to be done. I have used TOC feature. If a user exits the simulation midway and comes back it shows the "Continue from where you stopped last time?" message in a confirmation dialog box. Currently the title of this dialog box is "Adobe Captivate". I would like to know is it possible to change this title? If yes how? Kindly help.
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Hi,
Thanks.
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Krishna

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