Publish as an executable file?
Pardon me if I stumble around a bit here as I am a newbie to the group and Captivate. I have a file that is ready to publish and would like to end up with something that executes with one click from the user. I see something that works on my screen, but it isin a folder with the other needed files.I would like to have a link that the user clicks on and Wham Bam, they see the presentation without seeing folders or anything else.I'm sure this is easy, but have not seen it explained anywhere. Can you nice people help?
Thank You for your response. I hope that as time goes on I can give and take a lot in the this forum.
Let me give you some history so you'll better understand what I am trying to do. On a SharePoint site, I have several WebEx recorded trainings for our email system. They are links with a short name that people can get to with one click. I want the same one click link to the Captivate exe. If I set it up while the files are in a folder, I will have to set all the paths to make it work. I don't know how to get that started. I do not want the users to go into any folders or even have access to the files, just an executable link. From what you have said, it would work by creating an exe file when publishing. Is that correct? Then I could just upload it to our SharePoint site and be done with it. Correct?
Again, thank you for your time and expertise!!!
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