Question on PSE8 actions

When I try to run some of my actions in PSE8 it will instruct me to do some task and then press the "play" button. I don't know what button this is referring to, I thought maybe it meant the apply button at the bottom of the effects palette, but that doesn't work. Can someone help me? Thanks!

Actions you download and install yourself normally get installed and work from the effects pallet in Full Edit.
The pre-installed actions are found in the Organizer by choosing Guided Photo Edit under the Fix tab.
Scroll down and you will see Automated Actions and the Actions Player.

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Some Questions on Advanced Actions window

HI
I have a couple of questions on Advanced Actions (using the CP7 trail version)
1. What's the function of the "Continue" action? Exit's the advanced action and advances the Playhead?
2. What does this comment mean "Nested calls of advanced action is a nice enhancement."? Is the decision tabs at the top of an advanced action page?
3. What's the function of the "custom" option in the IF statement - "preform action if - custom", it doesn't seem to do anything for me?
4. Where can i get information about timeline / playhead interaction with advanced actions i.e. where the playhead goes to the start of the slide again. e.g. custom question slide - displaying button, checking answers, feedback - when all/most objects are at the start of the timeline. I'm looking more for playhead functionality infromation rather than how to set up this type of question.
Thanks
Donal.

Hi Lilybiri,
Thanks for your reply and the link to your blog.
Continue: Can you just explain yor statement "Continue can also be a choice in a conditional action, when one of the branching commands has nothing to do special but to advance.". When you say "branching command" i'm assuming you mean "IF ELSE statements" and "to advance" is that to the next decision if there is one? and if you didn't include "Continue" would it still advance?
Custom: I see what you mean the first is an AND statement and the rest are OR statements.
Nested advanced actions: I picked the term up from the Adobe web site comment by "Hari" on Shared Actions, who i took to be an Adobe person. Maybe i didn't understand the context.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2013/07/shared-actions.html
On Demand: Is there an up to date link. I found this one but the latest recordings are May (advanced action - part 8), and there isn't much training after May so it may be while before your Shared Actions are uploaded.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/etrainings-adobe-captivate-adobe-elearning-suite-and-adob e-presenter
Donal

Is there a way to restrict the number of attempts for a remediated question using advanced actions?

I have the following slides in my project:
content slide 1
content slide 2
question slide 1
question slide 2
Question slide 1 is a question about content slide 1. Question slide 2 is a question about content slide 2. I would like to restrict the total number of attempts to two for each question. If question 1 is answered incorrectly on the first attempt, the learner would be returned to content slide 1 for review. Clicking the next button will take the learner back to the missed quiz question and allow them a second attempt to answer it correctly. If they answer it incorrectly again, it is scored as incorrect and the learner is taken to question slide 2.
Can this be done or does remediation keep repeating until the learner answers the question correctly?
If that is the case, can I achieve my objective by using advanced actions? And, if so, can you provide step by step instructions on how to do this?

I think it could be possible, but giving you step-by-step instructions, sorry, that would take a lot of time. Did you use advanced actions already? My archived blog has a lot of use cases and tutorials, but I think it is not fair to ask on a forum for step-by-step instructions for each use case you want to create. The most important thing will be to make sure that the user always remains in the Quiz scope, you can use the new system variable cpInQuizScope while testing. There is no system variable for attempts on question level, only one on Quiz level, so you'll have to create a user variable to track the attempts on question level. A big problem is that when you leave a question slide, without using the remediation work flow, the attempts are considered as finished. Personally I would prefer for that reason to not use the default question slides. You could try out a combination of remediation and advanced actions, never did test that?
Lilybiri

ISE 1.x profiler question (Network Scan Action & Exception Action)

Could someone please explain the following based on this scenario:
Say you create a Profiler Policy called “DeviceBrandX” and you set the Minimum Certainty Factor to 20 and you create a condition to profile based on a check for condition based on host-name in DHCP and you assign the condition a Certainty Factor Increases of 10. In additoin you define an Exception Action and a Network Scan (NMAP) Action in the policy.
Here are the two questions:
If you create another condition that initiates a scan Network Scan (NMAP) Action to scan say for OS - how does the scan influence the Certainty Factor?
Also if you create a condition that initiates Exception Action - how does that influence the Certainty Factor?
Thanks,
Allen

Hey Tarik,
Thank you for the response; I have looked at the apple-device policy, I see that the “* Exception Action” field is = NONE. I only see that the Network Scan (NMAP) Action is set to OS-scan. In fact I have looked at all the generic policies and none have an “* Exception Action” field set.
I can see that under the Rules configuration you can set the rule to "Take Exception Action" but in the top part of the configuration the "* Exception Action” there is no selection option.
I am assuming if you wish to trigger and event you would identify the event in the “* Exception Action” field and under the rule you would select "Take Exception Action". How do you configure the “* Exception Action” to determine which Action to take?
Thanks,
Allen

ADF Question: included jsp action firing after page load

Hi all,
I am using JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 and ADF + BC.
Here is another interesting situation for you. I have a page with an included jsp at the top with tabbed navigation.
My page is for entering an order. Users can have multiple orders "open" in other tabs at the same time. Users can also have many other non-order pages opened in tabs. We are using the same View Objects (Entity Based) along with Transient View Objects on each order.
Each order tab needs to "remember" the orderId so that when the user clicks on a tab, the appropriate rows are set in the order that is to be "opened". This occurs in a tab's action() - setting the orderId and forwarding to the appropriate page (if different) or reloading the same page with the new id.
On page load we try to get the tab's orderId and load that as the current row of all of our view objects. This should make it seem like they are all concurrently running.
The problem is when going from order to order, once the tab is clicked, the page's OnPageLoad method runs BEFORE the action of the tab click is processed. Therefore the order that loads thinks it is the previous order, and does not load the correct View Object rows.
Does anyone know how we can force the tab action to occur before the page load so that we can get the proper orderId?
Thanks,
Heather

Thanks for your speedy reply Frank,
We are using the onPageLoad from the OnPageLoadBackingBeanBase which implements the PagePhaseListener.
In this we are doing something like:
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 EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.currentSelectedTab}");
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 System.out.println("tab num " + selectedTabNum);
 System.out.println( "testing " + test );
 }our tab counter (a session bean) has these two methods (among others):
 public void setCurrentSelectedTab(int currentSelectedTab) {
 this.currentSelectedTab = currentSelectedTab;
 for(int i=1;i<= 20; i++) {
 EL.set(BACKING_START+"selectedTab"+i+"}", false);
 EL.set(BACKING_START+"selectedTab"+currentSelectedTab+"}", true);
 public String getNextAvailableTab () {
 for(int i=2;i<=20;i++) {
 boolean isTab = (new Boolean (String.valueOf(EL.get(BACKING_START+"render"+i+"}")))).booleanValue();
 if (!isTab) {
 return String.valueOf(i);
 return "0";
 }our tab header (request bean) has this method as the action for clicking a tab:
 System.out.println("handleTabNavigation");
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 String selectedTab = componentId.replaceFirst("tab","");
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Heather

Question about Folder Actions

I have 2 folders and Each folder has a folder action attached.
When manually drag a file in the folders both scripts work.
But the intention is that the first folder move files to the second folder and the second folder does the folder action script.
But (Only) when the files are moved by the first script the second folder action does nothing.When I drag an other file in the second folder it does the action on all files within that folder.
intention:
Folder 1 : Check files and move the selected files to other folders
Folder 2 : Make report and move file to another folder
How I can improve this?
start of the second folder action... if that's the problem.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
try
tell application "Finder"
set numFiles to (number of files of folder this_folder)
repeat with i from 1 to numFiles
set curFile to the item 1 of this_folder
set curFilename to name of curFile as text
thanks

Hello
Perhaps you're seeing a long standing defect of Finder, which often fails to udate its internal cache of file system objects in time.
One method to try is to use 'update' command of Finder. Like CODE1 below.
--CODE1
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
try
tell application "Finder"
update these_items -- # added
update this_folder -- # added
set numFiles to (count files of folder this_folder)
repeat with i from 1 to numFiles
set curFile to item 1 of this_folder
set curFilename to name of curFile
-- # rest omitted
(* Since curFile is always assinged to item 1 of this_folder,
curFile is supposed to be removed from this_folder within this repeat loop. *)
end repeat
end tell
on error errs number errn
display dialog errs & " " & errn with icon 2 giving up after 5
end try
end adding folder items to
--END OF CODE1
By the way, your original code is not using these_items that is passed by Folder Action Server. However, from Folder Action's point of view, you should solely use these_items to process them because there's NO guarantee that 'item k of folder this_folder of application "Finder"' at the time of its execution is the item k of these_items. (E.g. Suppose there's another group of files newly added to the folder while an instance of Folder Action is running to process a group of files already added.)
So I'd rather recommend something like CODE2 below.
--CODE2
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
try
tell application "Finder"
repeat with i from 1 to (count these_items)
set curFile to item i of these_items
set curFilename to name of curFile
-- # rest omitted
end repeat
end tell
on error errs number errn
display dialog errs & " " & errn with icon 2 giving up after 5
end try
end adding folder items to
--END OF CODE2
Good luck,
H
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Question about Smart Actions

When creating a custom smart action, I want to send an automatic response text message to certain people but not all people.
For instance
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- Then I can choose who I receive calls from
- Next I can set the ACTION "Send a text message" and choose what I want the text message to say
Is there a way to download a trigger for "I miss some text messages"? That way I can put in the numbers of the people I receive the texts from and it will automatically respond with what I need it to say. If not, does anyone know of another method I could use to do this?
Thanks

Hi, Thanks for the response,It's more the fact that my boss is a micromanager and has decided to contact me using my cell phone via text. i was hoping that if she sent me a text, i could set it up so it would automatically respond with a message like,"i'm right in the middle of something but will get back to you ASAP"because if i don't respond back with something, then i get a ton of emails and phone calls
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Question Permission of action's objects (inside function).

Hello, I'm new here.
Nice to meet you all.
I'm having some troubles with SAP GRC RAR and I believe you can help.
During the creation of objects authorizations (Functions, Choose a a function, Permission tab), I can understand the fields: "Field", "Value From" and "Value to", "Conditions" and "Status".
Well I'd like to understand better how the "Conditions" works?
If GRC test condictions between each line of the object or between each object, or even between the values of the fields "Value From" and "Value to".
How it works?
Waiting for some feedback.
Thank you.

If you're referring to the operators (AND, OR, NOT) within the permissions tab, please review SAP note 1330165 which contains all of this data. A quick overview though is that the condition/operator only applies within a field of an object. If you use a range then it will always be interpreted as OR within that range, even if the operator is AND. I'm given an example below.
F_BKPF_BUK     ACTVT     01     02   AND   ENABLE
The above would cause a conflict if the user had accounting document authorization for company code with a create (01) or change (02). The operator does not matter because it is in a range. If we want them to have both, 01 and 02, then we should format it as below.
F_BKPF_BUK     ACTVT     01            AND   ENABLE
F_BKPF_BUK     ACTVT     02            AND   ENABLE
Again, this was just meant to be a small example. The above listed SAP note should provide you an indepth explanation.
Thanks,
Tyler

Survey Question - Carry over data

Hi,
Is there a way to carry over responses/answers from a survey question from one slide to another? I have a scenario where users analyze a situation and note the problems (survey answers - ungraded) on one slide. I don't want them to see the answers to the scenario until the next slide but want them to remember what they've put in as the problems with the scenario. I've searched the forum but didn't see this situation. Thanks very much for any ideas.

For short answer questions the value of the system variable cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice is the exact text that was entered, which is great news for you I suppose? Be sure to assign the value of that variable to a user variable before the next question is answered. That means that best event to trigger the action is the On Enter event for the next slide. As you perhaps know, there is no On Exit event possible for Question slides.
http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions
You will have to create an advanced action for that: Assign v_answer1 with cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice
And you'll need a different action for each question, even shared actions couldn't help you because a variable (it is the user variable v_answerx that will be different for each action) cannot be a parameter.
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A question about Lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces.

hello all
i read "The JavaServer� Faces Technology Tutorial",and mazed about Lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces.
It explains each of these lifecycle phases using the guessNumber example.
and if i submit the greeting.jsp ,who can give me particular about the jsf done in order....and the first step :Reconstitute Component Tree reconstitute greeting.jsp 's component tree or response.jsp?..

thanks!
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Actions and Advanced Actions not working correctly. - Captivate 8

In our project, we have it set so that after every section the student is asked three quiz questions (they are set on the default quiz slides.) On success, the person jumps to the next question slide. On failure, the person goes to next slide which has two buttons - one that allows them to simply move forward to the next quiz question and one that allows them to go back and review. The "Go back and Review" button takes the person back to the specific content slide that contains the answer to the question they are being asked. This button is set to advanced actions "Jump to Slide ..." and "Show Button..." - The button is a 'Return to Quiz' button to allows the person to find the answer then try the question again. I know that the buttons on the default quiz slides cannot be programmed to do a specific action, but every time we click 'Submit' it seems fine until we click 'Next' to move ahead, it then routes us back to one of the content slides (Slide 7) instead of the next slide (if wrong), or the next question slide (if right). I have looked at the Advanced Interactions Window and there is nothing linking this slide to anything. I have not had this problem with any of our other modules or sections. I have tried creating new question slides and it did not work. I deleted Slide 7 and it worked fine the first time through the preview, but then when I viewed the preview again, it started jumping back and would not even let me get to the questions. Can anyone help?

Normally the Next button on a question slide is not needed, because it has the functionality of Skipping the question. It is however needed if you want to allow Review.
Another explanation is that you did change the normal work flow for a question slide, where a two-step process for submitting will take automatically the user to the next slide.
Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog
What did you do to need the Next button? If the user submits:
Feedback appears with the indication to press Y or to click on the slide, happens at the pausing point of the Question slide (default is 1.5secs)
When user presses Y or clicks, the actions Success/Last Attempt are executed if all attempts are exhausted, and you have only 1 attempt on Question level: the actions are by default Continue, but you can change it to 'Go to Next Slide' to shorten the waiting time (or drag the pausing point closer to the end of the slide).
What did you change?

Basic N1 SSH config questions...

At the risk of asking remedial questions, are these actions correct?: 
<li> When generating SSH keys, I am to generate one set with the ID used to install/owner of the MS (agent, server, cli)? (i cant remember now if cli installed w/ the master seerver or not, i think it did)</li>
<li> I am to create a second user and generate keys, and place this users pub key into the authorized_keys2 file of the first user (product install/owner of MS) </li>
<li>How do I tell N1 about the existance of this second user? Is this what pe.defaultUserToRunAs is for? I cannot find this in the docs. </li>
<li> According to previous postings, root ssh'ing is required for OSP. This makes no sense to me when the agent can be owned by a non-root user, yet can execute native commands with root priv.</li>
<li>The docs state that SSH forwarding works downstream, but can it use loop back to the master server?</li>
<li>Why do I see the product use a root shell to CLI back to the Master server (OSP question)? Should this be happening?</li>
Thanks for everyones help.

Pete.

At the risk of asking remedial questions, are these
actions correct?: 
<li> When generating SSH keys, I am to generate one
set with the ID used to install/owner of the MS
(agent, server, cli)? (i cant remember now if cli
installed w/ the master seerver or not, i think it
did)</li>True for MS/LD/RA as they always run with the same uid. CLI works best, if always invoked as the install owner. If the CLI is invoked as any other user, then there are couple options,
one is to make sure that each user has their ssh keys configured so that the connection from their machine to the MS machine with their ssh credential succeeds.
Another is to configure CLI to always a single identity to connect to the MS. For security reasons, you may want this identity to be different from the MS install owner. If you look at the ssh man page, it allows you to override the default uid and identity file locations through options -l & -i.
Lets say we create a new user spsuser, for CLI authentication.
We can then generate ssh keys for spsuser and put them in this identity file, lets say /home/spsuser/ssh/identity.
We can then configure sps CLI to override the ssh credentials that are used when connecting to the MS as
net.client.parms.1=sshargs=-o|BatchMode yes|-l|spsuser|-i|/home/spsuser/identityThat way CLI will always try to use the same ssh identity regardless of who invokes it. However, since I haven't tested this configuration, I'm not certain if it will work. The one possible issue here is that ssh may complain about the identity file having global read permissions.
>
<li> I am to create a second user and generate keys,
and place this users pub key into the
authorized_keys2 file of the first user (product
install/owner of MS) </li>Nope, the keys always belong to the same user, unless you are overriding the default user to the first user when running ssh as the second user.
>
<li>How do I tell N1 about the existance of this
second user? Is this what pe.defaultUserToRunAs is
for? I cannot find this in the docs. </li>I think you are talking about the CLI here. In this case you'll be running the CLI as the second user, right? In that case all you need to do is to make sure that the second user is able to connect to the MS machine from the CLI machine using ssh, without requiring any user interaction.
>
<li> According to previous postings, root ssh'ing is
required for OSP. This makes no sense to me when the
agent can be owned by a non-root user, yet can
execute native commands with root priv.</li>The ability to run native commands as root is only available when the agent is running as root. Otherwise the plan that tries to run exec native as root will fail if the agent that its running on is not running as root.
>
<li>The docs state that SSH forwarding works
downstream, but can it use loop back to the master
server?</li>Not sure I understand the question. downstream here implies from the machine invoking ssh client to the machine thats running the ssh daemon. I don't think ssh would care if the the ssh daemon was connected to via any IP address or loopback...
>
<li>Why do I see the product use a root shell to CLI
back to the Master server (OSP question)? Should
this be happening?</li>My opinion is that CLI doesn't need to run as root for most of its functionality. The only case where it may need to run as root is when the files that its trying to checkin are only readable by root. However, it may make sense make those file readable by the CLI user instead of running CLI as root in that case. Don't know if it makes sense to have OSP run the CLI as a non-root user instead..
hth,
Aj

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Questions:
1, we don’t want to have the “Bulk Actions” function. Is there a way to delete the select column and bulk action function?
2, how to change a worklist table header? For instance, can we change the “Participant” to “Assigned to”?
3, almost all the workspace customizations are done by modifying files in OraBPMStudioHome. These customizations will apply to all projects. Is there a way to make project specific customizations? If we have two projects running at the same time, how should we do the project specific customizations?

Hi user586942,
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Here is where you can read about flex fields
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e15175/bpmug_ws_admin.htm#sthref118
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How to reveal correct answer in a quiz question

Hello,
I am using Captivate 5.5.
Is there a way to allow the user to view the correct answer to a quiz question without having to keep clicking on the different options until they select the right one? I want to allow infinite attempts but equally, if they are in a hurry or just run out of patience, I want the user to see what the actual answer is straight away. Our learners are medics and they often have limited time.
So the sequence could be something like this.
1. User enters question page.
2. Selects one answer. It is incorrect and retry message appears.
3. User selects another answer. It is incorrect and retry message appears
4. User decides that he/she wants to see the correct answer before moving on. Selects 'reveal answer' and is able to see what the correct answer is.
5. User moves onto next slide (this could be another quiz question or any other type of slide
In another package I have been using, we can specify a 'reveal correct answer' button which shows the correct answer straight away. Is there something like that in Captivate?
Thanks....

I think what you mean is that the quiz question's Failure action doesn't trigger until the final attempt and that would never happen if attempts is set to Infinite. So if you were only incrementing the variable when the quiz question registered final failure then you'd only get one crack at incrementing the variable. yes. My bad.
However, if you are using Multiple Choice questions, you can also trigger actions using the Advanced Answer Option. This will trigger an action when a particular answer is selected. So if you set this for each incorrect answer, you could increment the variable each time they select the wrong answer.
You can also use this same Advanced Answer action to execute a conditional action that first checks the value of the variable and then shows the rollover caption or increments the variable as needed.
Say you create a variable called WrongAnswer and initialise it with a value of 0. Then you create a Conditional Action called CheckWrongAnswer that looks like this:
If WrongAnswer is equal to 1 assign Wrong Answer with 2, (then on the next line) Show RolloverCaption, ELSE assign Wrong Answer with 1.
This shows the rollover caption after the second attempt resulting in an incorrect answer.

Htmlb form action

Hi,
I have a question about the "action" attribute of the htmlb form object. Is it a relative or absolute path that the action attribute expects?
<hbj:form action="nextjsp.jsp">
or
<hbj:form action="pagelet.jsp">
I've tried the JSPDynPage example from the PDK, and the switch statements don't work on my button click. I'm wondering how I can send my request to the correct JSP. Thanks!
-Vu

Hi Vu,
In this case you are using relative paths. An absolute path would look like:
... action="/nextjsp.jsp">
Please note this is the root of the webserver (your portal instance).
There are other tricks you can use like:
... action="../nextjsp.jsp">
(relative, one directory below current one)
Hope this helps.
Noel

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