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

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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.
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etc.
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Hello,
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Hi there
You need to delete the Click Box. Yes, you heard me. Delete the puppy.
I know it sounds weird. But bear with me. After you delete it, double-click the Text Entry Box. Then click the Options tab. See that option called Show Button? Click it and click OK to dismiss the TEB properties.
Now you have the button you want. If you don't want a button, double-click it and set it as transparent. Remove the text. Position as desired where the Click Box was before.
Cheers... Rick
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Text entry box question

Hey all, I am currently working on a project and have run
into a snag and cant seem to find the answer, or even if what i
need can be done.
Question 1: how do I advance a slide with the correct entry
of a text field without a button or keypress?
Question 2: if this is not possible, how can i have a text
entry box check for correct input using a custom button?
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.
M. Anderson

Hi M. Anderson
The first question may be accomplished if (and only if) the
last letter the user is supposed to type is unique among all the
letters. For example, BOFFO would not work. O occurs twice. But
LIFE would work, because E is unique. You could then configure the
letter E to be the shortcut for the Text Entry Box.
For the button, it's pretty easy. Click the Options tab and
look at your choices. Make sure the "Button" option contains a
check mark. After you dismiss the dialog, you end up with a rather
generic looking button. But once you enable the button, you may
then double-click it to edit its properties. You could choose an
image, or you could make it invisible and position the invisible
button over another image you placed on the slide as a simple image
object.
Hopefully this helps some... Rick

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.
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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:

Do Text Entry Boxes have to be done in a particular order

I am trying to use multiple text entry boxes on one slide. Each TEB has a conditional action tied to it.
The CA is designed so that user could do the TEBs in any order, and when the last one is completed, the CA moves to the next slide.
This approach works for click boxes, but does not work consistently for TEBs.

I am using Auto submit; the lose focus action is the same conditional action I use for the TEB, Enter is the shortcut key

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

Problem with Text Entry BoX in Adobe Captivate 6

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http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions
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import javax.servlet.http.*;
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import java.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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out.print("<font face=arial>");
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out.print("<br><br>");
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out.print("<input type=reset name=sobmit value=Clear><br><br>");
out.print("Press the Compute button to get the average");
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out.println("</form></html>");
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I did what you suggested (I think) and it still comes up using just the first occurrence.
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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>");
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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 {
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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,};
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         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

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