Uploading a PDF "within" my Captivate project

Hi, I would like for learners to have the option of clicking an attachments link within my Captivate project so that they can download a file that is relevant to my course WHILE they are watching the video. Can Captivate do this? I've used a similar feature on Articulate Presenter.
Thanks,
Robyn

Hi Robyn,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
In order to download a file from the Captivate output, you need to attach a file in a Captivate project on any button or click box.
Add a button or a click box then go to Properties > (define the) Action > On Success > (Select) Open URL or File > (Type the name of the file in) URL: and then publish the project.
After publishing the project send the File along with the output or paste the file in the output folder, so that the object (button or click box) would be able to find the file which has been attached to it.
I hope this will help you.
Please let me know the status along with some more information:
1) Version of Captivate?
2) What kind of an output are you taking from Captivate?
3) Are you using any LMS to upload the output?
Thanks
Vikas

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Sadly though, I've come up against a bit of a wall. In my project, I want to have 3 separate quizzes that all use the same question pool; a 10, 30 and 50 question-long quiz. Each one needs to have its own results page.
It's easy enough to see what I mean by looking at the screenshot below:
The idea was to have about 105 slides in total, with slides 10 - 20 being the 10 quiz slide, 21 - 51 being the 30 question quiz and 52 - 102 being the 50 question quiz.
There are three invisible buttons placed over those 10, 30, 50 text boxes. In the picture, the '10 question' button would jump to slide 10, the '30 question' button would jump to slide 21, and the '50 question' button would jump to slide 52, jumping the user to the start of their designated tests.
Though I can create the 10 random question "block" easy enough, when it comes to adding the 30 question "block" it just adds the new random questions to the existing random questions. I want three separate quizzes, each with their own results screens please. (I don't want to daisy-chain to external projects, because the results of each test need to be used within the homepage.)
It just adds them on to the existing block!! Argh!!
Little bit ticked off with Adobe...the reason their products are so incredible is because they put no constraints on the user, and you can use their tools to create things even the developers never dreamed of. Like in Photoshop for example, I bet when the dropshadow fx was created, the developers never realised that it would be used to give a metallic 'stamped' look to text by turning it to white and applying it just inside the text.
Captivate, though amazing most of the time, has a nasty habit of stomping on my toes. You can't set grade boundaries and have quizzes give out grades A+ to F- for example. You can only have 'pass' and 'fail', thus making it rather pointless for use in schools, contrary to how the program is advertised. Another example would be when I wanted to create a replay button. I thought that a button that jumped to the slide it was on would be a simple, no-BS replay button, but for some reason you can't make a button jump to its current slide. I downloaded a widget that worked in the end, but I wish Adobe would get off my back and let me do what I want!
Anyway, if you could help me out here it would be grand

I must say I have a little sympathy for the Captivate developers on this occasion. As you say, they've created an application that does so much, that when you eventually run into a hard boundary of some kind, the effect is somewhat jarring. However, every application, no matter how good, has limits. I'm probably one of the worst offenders when it comes to asking the Adobe Captivate Development Team for enhancements (I think I've logged over 70 enhancement requests for Captivate 6 alone).
In your case, you want to have three different quizzes in one project file, each with it's own separate Quiz Results page. Lilybiri's blog explains how to set up your own faux Quiz Results pages using system variables and custom user variables, but you're going to find this to be quite a lot of trouble. Even if YOU want to consider these as three separate quizzes, as far as Captivate is concerned they're just one big quiz with 50 questions. So Captivate will calculate it's internal results based on a 50 question quiz, even if your users select the 10 question version. So achieving a final Pass/Fail result is going to be problematic at best.
As Lilybiri suggested, your better strategy would be to break this up into separate modules so that you can get your three separate quiz results (all done in standard Captivate) as well as correct results based on the actual number of questions done by the user.
As far as grades A-F is concerned, there's nothing to stop you from using Advanced Actions and User Variables to calculate the user's score as a grade. You need a user variable that stores the user's grade (e.g. var_Grade). And you need a fairly complex Conditional Advanced Action (e.g. caa_CalculateGrade) with several clauses each of which goes something like:
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AND
greater or equal to [lowest score for a particular grade]
Actions
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Can you embed a PDF into a Captivate 8 project?

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Can you embed a PDF document into a captivate project?
I know i shouldnt compare, but in Articulate Story Line, you are able to add 'resourses' into the project which sit alongside the eLearning to provide further reading.
Can you do this in Captivate? but without it linking to an external sourse such as local or shared drive?
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To tmpe222,
I'm not a Cp expert, but it seems to me that there's no sense in simply trying to stick a pdf document in the Scorm package. What good would that do? The file would be in the package, but that doesn't mean it would be 'embedded in the project' in any meaningful sense of the term.
I don't know of any way to embed a pdf document directly into a Cp project. But couldn't you simply convert the pdf file into an image (jpeg or gif)? This you could easily insert in your project. It would be inserted as a standard object. And then you could do all the nice things that you can do with any object: put it on slide to be accessed only if the participant wants to view it; use effects so that it enters nicely; add annotation . . . the sky's the limit.
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Hello,
I have not worked with BlackBorad LMS , But generally when you upload your zipped content on LMS it generates a LINK which you can share it with your users
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I have a swf created within captivate 4 which is a traiining simulation. Now I want to embed this simulation on a screen within a new host captivate project and enable the next progress button only when the embedded training simulation is done. What is a good way to do this?
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Adobe captivate multiple quizzez within a single project

Hello I am trying to create a test that includes 6 different exams, but i want the usert to have to pass each exam with at least a 75% before they can access the next quiz. I am very new to captivate. Any help would be very appreciated.
Thank you

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Welcome to Adobe Forums.
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1 - I've created a Portfolio and am impressed with what that can do, though I think it may be "overkill" for the current size of my project.
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This question came up in May 2006 but was never really
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that seem to have fonts that go walkies on other computers. I know
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post won't require horizontal scrolling - sorry, but I use Firefox
and entering a long URL totally blows my ability to smoothly read
the post ... you can manually add a text link by using the "L" tag
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[ L = Your Text]
http://www.yourdomain.com [ /
L ]
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but that thread and your problem are not even in the same world.
That thread deals with fonts in text-entry boxes (boxes for
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text-caption, then publish the project, the fonts in your text
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the Captivate machine are correct, what you are saying is happening
cannot
be happening. Something else is going on, like a failure to
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Hello,
In the past couple of years I've developed about 15 presentations for our customers using Captivate. They've all worked great until recently. Today I dug in to see if I could figure out what the scoop is. It looks like it all boils down to the fact that they don't like the latest version of "Adobe Reader" and "Flash Player". With the latest versions installed here's what our customers (and myself) get:
If I uninstall all the latest and greatest and re-install Adobe Reader 9.5.0 then try the production. Works fine like it always did.
Please tell me there's a better fix then downgrading.
THANKS so much!
And if this has been posted and answered a million times before, I'm sorry I missed it. I did look around quite a bit and didn't see a fix.

Issue
When you publish Adobe Captivate projects with a TOC as PDF, the published SWF content doesn't play in Acrobat XI.
http://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/kb/captivate-swf-doesnt-play-acrobat.html
Solution
1. Download the hot fix from the following locations:
a. If you are using Adobe Captivate 6.0.1 (build 6.0.1.240), click here. https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=dPNipWAhuCCdDrN4EZRGMA
b.
c. If you are using Adobe Captivate 6 update for subscription and Adobe Software Assurance customers (build 6.1.0.319), click here. https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=UKMjxvniyoH5iIuf*CTJCw
Note: You are prompted to provide your Adobe ID and password while downloading the hot fix. If you do not have an Adobe ID, you can easily create one following the onscreen instructions.
2. Extract the files from the downloaded ZIP file and save them in a folder, for example, my folder.
3. Close Adobe Captivate.
4. Navigate to the sdk\libs\cplibs folder in the Adobe Captivate installation directory:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 x64
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6
/Applications/Adobe Captivate 6
5. Go to <install directory>\sdk\libs\cplibs\9.0 folder and do the following:
Rename cpTOC.swccpTOC.orig, and MainMovie.swcMainMovie.orig.
a. Copy cpTOC.swc and MainMovie.swc files from the downloaded ZIP (Step 2) in \sdk\libs\cplibs\9.0.
6. Repeat step 5 for <install directory>\sdk\libs\cplibs\10.0 folder too.
7. Launch Adobe Captivate and republish your project.
Important: With this fix, you can play the SWF file in Acrobat 11. However, self-paced learning is not supported. (When you stop and resume the course, the course begins all over again and does not take users to the point where they stopped earlier.)

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