Text entry box actions based on value

Hi there..
I am currently working on a software simulator where users search for orders by typing an order number in a search field... In Captivate I have created a Text Entry box with "submit" button, what I am trying to achieve in is if the user type specific value (numbers) and click "submit" button it will take them to a specific slide in the project BUT if they type difference value (in the same text entry box) and click "submit" button it will take them to different slide in the project ?
hope I have explained the question clearly.. btw I am using Captivate v5
thanks

OK, you know how to add the correct entries. Set attempts to infinite, and create this conditional action to trigger by Success for the TEB:
I created a user variable to associate with the TEB instead of the generic one, it is labeled v_order. I labeled the slides to jump to as well, makes it easier to use in an advanced action. Screenshots are from CP8, so will look bit different for you, but what you hneed is the same.

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Text Entry Box--Advanced Actions--Conditional Statement--Double quotes in literal input value

Hello forums,
I'm new to the forums (and Captivate in general), but I'm having a real problem carrying out a tutorial design and I think you may be my only hope. Let me explain what I want to do and the difficulty that I'm having:
I'm an instruction librarian at a university, and I'm designing an interactive tutorial for English 100 students to complete in order to become familiar with how to search the library catalog. What I've done is taken a screenshot of the catalog search page, made it the background of a slide in Captivate (vers. 6), and placed a text entry box over the search bar in the screenshot. The idea is for the students to conduct a simulated search by choosing one of three suggested search string formulations, and depending on the search string they enter, the tutorial will jump to a slide featuring a screenshot of what the actual search results would look like. The idea is to emphasize the use of keywords over full-sentence phrases, and the use of double quotation marks to enclose multi-word search terms.
So I've set the action for the TEB to "Execute Advanced Actions" and then created some IF/THEN statements in the "Advanced Actions" pop-up window (with action type set to 'conditional'). The script is such that if the student enters the first search option (how does sleep affect college students) in the TEB, the tutorial jumps to 1 slide, if they enter the second option (college students AND sleep), featuring a Boolean operator (AND), the tutorial jumps to a 2nd slide, and if they enter the third option ("college students" AND sleep) with the double quotes around "college students" and the Boolean operator, the tutorial should jump to a 3rd slide. This action script works fine for the first two input options, but I can't make it work for the third search option.
I think that it has something to do with the fact that the third input option features double quote marks, and this seems to throw off the script (I tried a quote-less input value for the third IF/THEN just to make sure that it would work jumping to the 3rd slide and it did), and I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get around this issue. Again, I need it to work so that if the student enters "college students" AND sleep, with the quote marks and the Boolean operator, the tutorial will jump to a slide showing the search results if those search terms were used in a real search of the catalog.
I'd be extremely grateful for any help that anyone here can give me, we've been trying to make our online tutorials more engaging and interactive (and therefore more interesting), and I think this would be a great way to teach students about using quotes in their catalog searches.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Andrew Wilk
College Library
UW-Madison

The tutorial is for a "how to use catalog searching" instruction in an undergraduate library session. We use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search terms, ex. to search for books about the sleeping habits of college students, I would enter "college students AND sleep." Because "college students" is a multi-word phrase to describe one concept, I need to put quotation marks around the phrase to prevent the catalog from searching for the individual words separately, so the most correct search becomes ["college students" AND sleep] with quotation marks around only "college students," a user-typed "AND," and the word "sleep" (no q-marks).
A colleague of mine worked out a pretty cool (if complicated) solution that I'll share if anyone is interested. Since the q-marks where the problem, we've set it up so that the TEB validates the response for the search string with q-marks around "college students." If they enter it correctly, the tutorial jumps to the corresponding slide. The attempt # is set to 1, and if the user fails to enter the validated phrase (they misspell or use one of the other response options) then the TEB is set to run an Advanced Actions Script in which the other two options are scripted in IF/THEN statements that cause, when the term is entered correctly, the tutorial to jump to their corresponding slides. We've created another tab of IF/THEN statements that say that if the response is NOT equal to one of these response options, then the slide restarts (technically the slide "jumps" back to itself and starts over) and the user gets another chance to start the cycle over again.
I know this is confusing (I had a really hard time explaining it in words), so if anyone is interested I could make a Jing video when I have some time.
Thank you for all your suggestions

Text Entry Box - Different Results based on Different Entries?

Hello,
I'm trying to figure out a way to use the Text-Entry Box (if there's a better tool to go about this, let me know) in order to bring up a particular caption box with a particular response. So for example, in a standard text-entry box, I have listed 4 possible "correct" answers, and for this example, I'll just say answer 1, answer 2, answer 3, and answer 4. I would like each answer to bring up a different caption box with a different statement based on which answer they type in. Basically:
Answer one -> Caption 1
Answer two -> Caption 2
etc.
All I can ever get is for each answer to just respond to the same standard buttons, Success, Failure, etc. I can't seem to add a new button that would pop up like the standard ones, or, as I would like better, Captions instead. Any ideas?

Hello,
Perhaps it is a problem with terminology, but as the 'proclaimed' advanced actions freak I have to ask what you mean by your latest answer 'captions did not come as variables to use'. A button is not a variable in my mind, but you mean perhaps the object ID? Which statement did you use in the advanced actions where the object ID of the captions do not show? AFAIK that is only the case with the statements Assign and Expression if you use variables, but there the button will not be in the list as well.
Do you understand why I'm puzzled?
My work flow would be this one:
Create the Text captions TC_one, TC_two... and set them to invisible
Create the Advanced conditional action that checks which (correct) answer was chosen, this action will have one decision for each correct answer; the action to be executed is to show TC_one in case answer1 was chose, TC_two for answer2 etc. If you allow the user to change his answer, hide at the same time the other captions
Attach this action as Success action to the TEB, and have a shortcut or the Submit button like you wish.
In case you allow also a Retake functionality, where the user returns to this slide, you'll need sort of a Reset that hides all Text Captions when entering the slide
Please, I hope you'll take the time to answer my question in the first paragraph.
Lilybiri

Using Value in a Text Entry Box for Calculation in a Variable

I have a project where I ask the user to fill in their name in one entry box and their two-digit age in another text entry box. Later in the project, I want to ask them to think back to when they were 6 years old and how they would describe themselves at that time. (the project is on self-awareness). To make this as personable as possible, I thought it would be neat to say. "(Name Variable), think back to about (Years Since 6)years ago, when you were just about 6 years old". I am having trouble getting the "Years Since 6" variable to work, and would like to know if it is possible.
I have set up the text entry box variable as "v_age"
I have set up a variable as "v_age6" with a value of "6"
I have set up the result variable as "v_result_age6"
I have set up a standard action with a mathematical expression that reads "v_result_age6 = v_age - v_age6"
The variable output does not show on the stage in project preview mode, and I think it's because there is only one variable with an assigned value in the equation. The "v_age" variable does not have an assigned value because that is a text entry box.
Is it possible to use a value typed in from a user as a variable to do math with?
Thanks.

Welcome to the forum,
Each TEB has an associated variable, its generic name is the same as the TEB. But you'd better link your variable with the more significant name to the TEB. Have a look at this real old blog post, still valid (although maybe the screenshots are bit out of date):
http://blog.lilybiri.com/timesaving-tip-create-associated-variable-for
BTW: you didn't need to create an extra variable for the number 6. This action would have done as well:
Expression v_resultage6 = v_age - 6
How do you trigger the action, by which event?
http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions
Lilybiri

Advanced action: jump to next slide if all text entry boxes are filled out. If not, pause project and show error message

Hi there
Working with captivate 4 and advanced actions, which is a great new feature, I encounter the following problem:
I have a sign-in slide, where the user has to insert his name and several other data. For user-friendly handling, I have the text entry boxes appearing one after another, so when the user confirms his entry, the next text entry box appears and has the focus.
The button for jumping to the next slide works with an advanced action:
Only if the user has filled out all the text entry boxes, the action "jump to the next slide" is performed.
If not, an error message is shown.
It works well so far.
Now, I want the project to pause there, and not to jump back to the beginning of the slide (as suggested in another Thread in this forum), because then the text entry boxes dissappear again.
I tried to set the movie control variable rdcmndPause to 1 in order to make the movie pause, but nothing happens.
I tried it with an external playback control bar and without, it didn't work in either case.
I found the hint:
To control the project through the skin file, add the prefix cpSkinLoader_mc to the variables. This might be the solution.(?)
But how can I change the name of a MovieControl Variable?
If anyone knows, how this is supposed to work or has another suggestion to solve the problem, please let me now.
Thanks a lot.
Petra

Hi Petra,
I believe I can help you, but from a completely different angle than anything you've tried yet. I try to find simple solutions to complex problems. No advanced actions will be needed, just a little creative timing. First, I need to be sure I correctly understand what it is you're hoping to accomplish.
If I understand you correctly, you've got a single welcome slide. On this slide you've got several TEB's (text entry boxes), set up with variables to make your project more personal or gather some required information. These TEB's have no right or wrong answers, they simply require an entry: such as an address which begins with a numeric key. The TEB's are set to appear one after another, as one is completed the next one appears. Once all have been completed a next button, set to "jump to next slide" takes them to the next slide and on through your course. You want the project to pause until the user clicks this button, and only proceed if all TEB's have been entered. If not, you wish an error message to appear.
If the above description is correct, I'd do the following:
Leave your TEB's to show up one at a time as the previous is submitted, as you've described. (each one pauses the slide till info is submitted, then "continues" the slide and the next TEB displays)
Set each TEB to "display for rest of slide".
For the next button: In the properties dialog box, options tab, name the button "Next_button" and uncheck the visibility box.
Open the properties for the final TEB that students will fill in and set the on success property to "show" then choose the Next_button by clicking the drop down arrow beside the "show" field. This will hide the Next button until all TEB's have been filled in.
There is no error message, because there is no possibility of error. Why tell a student they've messed up, just eliminate that possibility! All TEB's only display after the previous is entered, and the Next button is hidden until the last TEB is entered.
I've tested this in a simple 3 slide project and it all worked fine, including some variables. If you need more detailed info, or would like to see the sample proj. I created let me know.
Hope this helps.
randy

How to make mutiple shortcut keys in one text entry box

I'm trying to make F8 and Enter work in one text entry box and only one because I need to make the scoring work the way I want it to. I have made both F8 and Enter work, however they are both in seperate text entry boxes when I want both to work in the same text entry box... Please Help, this will solve alot of problems I've been having.

Ok so I tried using advanced actions and failed... here's my attempt on putting 2 shortcuts in one text entry box with different entries like the problem described earlier on this thread:
Note: I have 2 TEB in one slide I tried using in this action.. 1 has variable name PF8, the other has PF82, where I'm trying to have PF82 contain both actions of both TEBs.
1. Went into advanced actions.
2. Action name: Linking2inone
3. Made it a conditional action.
4. In "IF" attempted to use both any and all conditions are true
5. Also in "IF" PF82 contains PF8
6. Actions Jump to Slide 11
7. updated action successfully.
Then I closed advanced actions. I tried making the PF8 TEB have "no action" when correct and tested it... didn't work... then I made PF8 TEB have Jump to slide 11 when correct, cut and pasted it to another slide because I thought that PF8 TEB as a seperate TEB in the same slide was messing with the Advanced Action I'm trying to perform. Therefore, since PF8 was just in another slide, PF8 wouldn't be deleted still having the same action value in advanced actions having PF82 contain the action of PF8; but this failed as well...

An Array of Text Entry Boxes

I am trying to make a servlet that has an array of text entry boxes for entering numbers. By changing numboxes, I would be able to vary the number of boxes. The problem is that it is only finding the first occurrence of the text entry boxes.
If the idea of an array of text entry boxes is totally stupid, feel free to say that as well, as well as any suggestions as to a better basic approach. Thanks!
To run my servlet:
http://www.mycgiserver.com/servlet/waynefrank.ManyAverageServlet1
My servlet:
package waynefrank;
//** Computes an average of many numbers input by the user
//** ManyAverageServlet1.java
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
//imported for buttons, labels, and images
import java.awt.*;
//imported for layout manager
public class ManyAverageServlet1 extends HttpServlet
// numboxes is the number of number-entry boxes we have.
double numboxes = 04;
String ctrCharValue = null;
public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException {
res.setContentType("text/html");
     PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
          Enumeration flds = req.getParameterNames();
          if (!flds.hasMoreElements()) {
     //*** No form submitted -- create one:
out.print("<form method=\"POST\"" + " action=\"http://www.mycgiserver.com/servlet/waynefrank.ManyAverageServlet1\">");
out.print("<font face=arial>");
out.print("** Please enter numbers that you want to average. **");
out.print("<br><br>");
// xxxxxxx put processing to form text boxes
for( int ctr = 1; ctr <= numboxes; ctr++) {
out.print("<td><input name=numbox[ctr] size=17></td>");
out.print(" "+ctr);
out.print("<br>");
// put out buttons
out.print("<input type=submit name=sobmit value=Compute><br><br>");
out.print("<input type=reset name=sobmit value=Clear><br><br>");
out.print("Press the Compute button to get the average");
out.print("</font>");
// end of putting out form
out.println("</form></html>");
//          Process events from page
          } else {
double average;
String[] NumEntered = {null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,};
double[] numin = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,};
String ACTION;
ACTION = req.getParameter( "sobmit" );
if( ACTION.equals( "Compute" ) )
// xxxxxxx text box processing
try {
average = 0;
out.print("<font face=arial>");
for( int ctr = 1; ctr <= numboxes; ctr++) {
// ??????? it is getting just the first one
NumEntered[ctr] = req.getParameter("numbox[ctr]");
numin[ctr] = Double.parseDouble((String) NumEntered[ctr]);
out.print("Number "+ctr+"= "+NumEntered[ctr]);
out.print("<br>");
average = average + numin[ctr];
average = average / numboxes;
out.print("<br>");
out.print("Average= "+average);
out.print("</font>");
} catch(NumberFormatException e) {
out.print("<img src=http://www.mycgiserver.com/~waynefrank/katie.jpg>");
out.print("<font face=arial>");
out.print("<br><br>Even Katie knows you have to enter numbers !! ");
out.print("Use the browser back button and try again. :)");
out.print("</font>");
}      out.close();
     } } ///:~ end of servlet

I did what you suggested (I think) and it still comes up using just the first occurrence.
out.print("<td><input name= '+ numbox[ctr] +' size=17></td>");
NumEntered[ctr] = req.getParameter("+ numbox[ctr] +");
The whole servlet:
package waynefrank;
//** Computes an average of many numbers input by the user
//** ManyAverageServlet1.java
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
//imported for buttons, labels, and images
import java.awt.*;
//imported for layout manager
public class ManyAverageServlet1 extends HttpServlet
// numboxes is the number of number-entry boxes we have.
double numboxes = 04;
String ctrCharValue = null;
public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException {
res.setContentType("text/html");
     PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
          Enumeration flds = req.getParameterNames();
     if (!flds.hasMoreElements()) {
     //*** No form submitted -- create one:
out.print("<form method=\"POST\"" + " action=\"http://www.mycgiserver.com/servlet/waynefrank.ManyAverageServlet1\">");
out.print("<font face=arial>");
out.print("** Please enter numbers that you want to average. **");
out.print("<br><br>");
// xxxxxxx put processing to form text boxes
for( int ctr = 1; ctr <= numboxes; ctr++) {
out.print("<td><input name= '+ numbox[ctr] +' size=17></td>");
out.print("<br>");
//   put out buttons
out.print("<input type=submit name=sobmit value=Compute><br><br>");
out.print("<input type=reset name=sobmit value=Clear><br><br>");
out.print("Press the Compute button to get the average");
out.print("</font>");
// end of putting out form
out.println("</form></html>");
//            Process events from page
          } else {
double average;
String[] NumEntered = {null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,};
double[] numin = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,};
         String ACTION;
         ACTION = req.getParameter( "sobmit" );
if( ACTION.equals( "Compute" ) )
// xxxxxxx text box processing
try {
average = 0;
out.print("<font face=arial>");
for( int ctr = 1; ctr <= numboxes; ctr++) {
NumEntered[ctr] = req.getParameter("+ numbox[ctr] +");
   numin[ctr] = Double.parseDouble((String) NumEntered[ctr]);
out.print("Number "+ctr+"= "+NumEntered[ctr]);
out.print("<br>");
average = average + numin[ctr];
average = average / numboxes;
out.print("<br>");
out.print("Average= "+average);
out.print("</font>");
} catch(NumberFormatException e) {
     out.print("<img src=http://www.mycgiserver.com/~waynefrank/katie.jpg>");
out.print("<font face=arial>");
out.print("<br><br>Even Katie knows you have to enter numbers !! ");
out.print("Use the browser back button and try again. :)");
out.print("</font>");
}      out.close();
     } }   ///:~ end of servlet

Using text entry Box or Text are button

Hi,
How do I do these?
using text entry box or text area widget.
to describe:
in my first slide I have text entry boxes for
    1. User name
     2. name of superior
     3. email of the superior
let say: 1. refer to varialbe V_UserN
             2. refer to V_sup
             3. refer to V_emailS
next slide would be a video
next slide would be a text entry or a text area..this is where the user writes anything
     Text entry box with submit button
What I want from this text entry box is..if the user doesnt write anything, upone clicking the submit button, the interaction wouldbe "please write a review on the text area"..if the user write something the something, the submit button will execute continue.
how do I do this?
next slide would be a text entry box or a text area..wherein the user write something based on question (this is not a quiz slide). The message would be sent to the superiors email. how do I do this?
hope you can help me.
Thanks

To check if the user didn't write anything you'll have to compare the value of the associated variable of that TEB or Text Area with a user variable v_null. You have to create that user variable and just leave it empty.
Have a look at my blog post:
Where is Null?
You'll have to create the custom question slide with standard objects. There is an mail widget included with Captivate, but didn't try out if you can insert the value of a variable as an email address.
Lilybiri

Text Entry Box not working right??

This is strange…. If anyone has any thoughts…
that would be great.
I have a slide that tests someone's knowledge for inputting
into a text entry box. I want to give them 2 tries for doing this
task - and if they don't perform the task correctly, I want an
error message to display. However, I want the error message to be
different based on the 1st time that they try and the second time.
The method to accomplish this.. I have done many times, and has
always worked. However, for some reason, it's not working this
time.
In order to customize the error message based on whether it's
the 1st try or the second - I have created 2 text entry boxes.
The first text entry box is set to display at 0 seconds, is
set to display for 2 seconds and is set to pause after 1.5 seconds.
If the user enters a successful text entry the user will be
navigated to the next slide, if the user enters an incorrect text
entry they will continue on the same slide and a failure caption is
selected to display (this is the first error message that displays
for the first try.)
The second text entry box is set to display at 2 seconds, is
set to display for 2 seconds and is set to pause after 1.5 seconds.
If the user enters a successful text entry the user will be
navigated to the next slide, if the user enters an incorrect text
entry they will continue on the same slide. No failure caption is
selected to display. This is the important point... I have not
selected for a failure caption to display for this text entry box.
I have a text caption that displays at 4 seconds - this is
the second error message that the user will see if they input an
incorrect text entry into the second text entry box.
Everything seems to work fine except... for some reason, when
I enter an incorrect text entry into the second text entry box, I
get the failure message that I set for the first text entry box.???
Very strange. I have recreated this 3 times - each time it works.
Then, all of a sudden, it stops working. I’ve even tried
recreating the movie from scratch… but same results.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Lynn

Hi again
Okay, makes sense. I suppose in this case, I'd simply use
another slide. From what you have explained, it would appear there
is a possible issue Captivate is having with multiple text entry
boxes on the same slide.
So I would insert a slide following the existing slide. Then
on failure of the first text entry box, direct to the next slide.
On success of the first text entry box, skip over the new slide to
the proper "continue" slide.
Hopefully that makes sense... Rick

How to hide the cursor in text entry boxes

I didn't see this answer in the forum, and it took a while to figure this out so I thought I'd post my
solution.
The issue is that a question requires that the user know where to click before typing, then type the correct value.
The problem is that a text entry field shows the cursor; a dead give-away as to where the user is supposed to type.
My solution is:
1) Hide the text entry box (give it a name and uncheck 'Visible' in the options).
2) Add a transparent button (with default text if needed) over the area where the user must click.
- Set the 'Success' option to 'Show', and make the 'Show' item the name of your text entry box.
- Disable all captions (unless they get points for clicking in the right place).
3) Set the object timing so the button displays until clicked, then end the button display. Start the display of the text entry field immediately after the end of the button display.
The effect is that the user clicks the correct area, then the cursor displays in the correct location, ready for the text entry.

Brilliant!
You get a gold star for this idea. Very original thinking.

Text entry box instead of typing

In order to capture the screens I need, I have to enter text by typing it into a form. But I don't want the text I'm typing to appear in the final project. Instead, I want remove the typed text and replace it with a text entry box so that the learner can type in their own text.
Is it possible to convert typed text into a text entry box?
Is there a preference setting that would prevent the typed text from showing or convert it to a text entry box?
I hope someone can help with a suggestion.

You can add the text entry box (TEB) on top of the required field, assign a variable to this TEB and in later slides, insert a smartshape and call this variable wherever required.
However I see some challenges in this, depending on your specific requirement.
1. If this variable is called 50 slides later, you should add a smartshape and call this variable 50 times. A bit tedious task.
2. Depending on the UI color changes, you should also change the smartshape color as many times in as many slides if you want to match the colors. Same with smartshape positions. Again, a tedious task.
3. What if this value is partially shown on a slide? A good lot of graphic editing work there. Use case: The user is creating a child node for some tree structure and you want to use this feature to let the user enter any node name he wants. Later in some other screen, this node (as part of the tree) appears on the right pane and the pane is partially hidden, then you will have to hide this new text also partially.
There may be few more challenges you might want to consider before deciding this.
Sreekanth

Tab key used as the shortcut key when using a text entry box

When I use the Tab key as my shortcut key for a text entry box, it works fine in preview mode but does not work in the web browser preview mode. I have tried to understand how I can take an existing project that is built for web browser application and make the tab key work. The only thing I have been able to make my text feild entry take me to the next slide is to have the user click Enter instead of Tab and that is not the typical way we move between fields in the real application. So....simulations is not accurate. Can you give me step-by-step instructions on how to correct this problem in an already existing project?

I think that you need to disable "Seamless Tabbing" in your file for it to work when published.
You need to edit the HTML file that launches your course manually.
Open your HTML file in notepad or equivalent
Between the <object> </object> tags add:
<param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="false">
Save the HTML file again
/Michael
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Text Entry Box - On losing focus?

Hello fellow Captivators. I'm being thick-headed, I guess, but I'm trying to figure out how I might use the new feature of Text Entry Boxes on the Advanced tab:
I tried the setting as in the graphic, then when I preview, I click in the text entry box to give it focus, then I tab out of it (focus shifted to the playbar), but nothing happens.
Is this how it's supposed to work? And I'd love some suggestions about how to use this new feature.
Thanks very much.
Mister C.

Thanks for your insight, Rick. It is as you say. If I type a character in the TEB first, then the on focus lost action on the Advanced tab takes place.
But it doesn't quite make sense to me. I'm doing a little testing. The more I test, the more confused I get!!!
I configured a TEB with a Submit button. On success, I set it to go to the next slide. On the Advanced tab, I configured the on focus lost action to go to the previous slide. Then I tried it ---
If I type the correct text and click the Submit button, I'd expect the go to next slide action to take place. Instead, since the focus was lost when I clicked the Submit button, it went to the previous slide. If I type the incorrect text and click the Submit button, I'd expect to get incorrect feedback. Instead, again, since the focus was lost when I clicked the Submit button, it went to the previous slide. If I type correct text and use my shortcut key of Enter, the first Enter does nothing, then a second Enter executes the on success action and goes to the next slide. But, if I type incorrect text and use my shortcut key of Enter, it shows incorrect feedback --- I assume because focus is not lost just by pressing Enter. But --- this doesn't make sense either, because the help file says "On Focus Lost Select the action that should be performed when the user presses Enter or Tab, or moves the pointer away from the object." If I configure the shortcut key to be Tab instead of Enter, regardless of whether I type correct or incorrect text, the on focus lost action happens and I go to the previous slide.
So it looks like the Advanced tab on focus lost is taking precedence over the submit button validation process. That is, except for the Enter key shortcut.
Does this behavior match with your experience? Or does it even make any sense?

Text Entry box stops on "S"

I have something happening in a SIMULATION that is driving me crazy.
I have a text entry box that I want the user to type in something to the effect of:
[email protected]
But... as soon as they type the "S", the text entry box stops accepting keystrokes. To confound the issue, I can type in virtually ANYTHING else into the text entry box as long as I don't type in the "S", and the text entry box accepts it.
Why?

Hi Lilybiri, here is the advanced action that is triggered when a hotspot (click1) on the main slide is clicked. The second line to hide the text_entry_fields group is what I've added to solve the problem but I'd be happoer if this particular line wasn't necessary.
Here is the timeline:
Once the rugbyPop is closed by clicking Button_153 this advanced action is triggered:

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This approach works for click boxes, but does not work consistently for TEBs.

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