Unable to link to another project

Hi there
Relatively new to captivate, so just wondered if somebody
tell me if I'm doing something wrong. I have created a quiz with
about 30 questions. At the end of the quiz I want the user if they
require to link to a different project with a detailed explanation
about the correct answer to each question (I know I could do this
in the review section of each question, but there doesn't seem to
be enough room within the review question textbox to place the
answer and there seems no way to create a scrolling textbox in
captivate
when I create a slide and place a button on the slide linking
it to another project, when I view that slide in the Web browser
and click on the button it won't take me to the new project, and
comes up with an error message about not finding the file.
Any insight as to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly
appreciated.

Hi simonapsey
When you assigned the action to the button, exactly what
action did you assign? If you selected "Open other project", you
should have been prompted to navigate to where the other project
exists on your hard drive. After you publish, you then need to
ensure that both outputs exist in the same folder.
Cheers... Rick

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