Using Captivate variables

I have just created a course that uses Captivate Variables, after I publish a course and go through the slides for a split second at the start of the slide the captivate variables text changes from the Captivate field name to the actual variable. Is there anyway to stop this happening?

Hi there
Indeed there are a couple of different ways.
The simplest is to ensure that AS3 is your ActionScript setting. Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings for that.
More complex is by masking it. Basically you insert something to cover it momentarily. An Image or Highlight Box usually works. Then you adjust the timing and placement accordingly.
Cheers... Rick
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I (heart) Captivate Variables

I was pulling my hair out trying to get my quiz workaround
(an inserted flash button) to link to a slide inside my movie. Many
said it was impossible but it's not!! I just used captivate
variables in my action script, inserted my animation and bingo...it
works.
Here's the code I placed in my flash button:
on (release) {
_root.cpSkinLoader_mc.rdcmndGotoSlide = 24;
Here's the list of Captivate variables
here
Here's another extremely helpful website in my saga.
Captivate Hints
Happy scripting!!!

Thanks for bringing up the subject, "captivate_questions".
Those variables are in the HELP files. Just open Captivate and
click "Help", then open the Index and type "variables".
You are right about Paul's dewhurst's www.raisingaimee.co.uk
web-site. Many people who are not familiar with Flash or Flash
action-scripting will find a lot of value in Paul's pre-built
Captivate widgets. For a long time now, the most valuable resource
available to Captivate developers has been Paul's site.
Have a great day, and thanks for reminding us of these two
resources!! Larry

Using Captivate 5.5 user variable in Designer ES2

Can I use Captivate 5.5 user or system variables in LiveCycle Designer ES2 to fill form data?

Yes, I'm sure it is frustrating, and it is not good news if CP5 has some of the same issues. Two suggestions if you haven't already done so: put a request in to widget author for a AS3 version, especially since CP5 doesn't support AS2. Also, place a bug report on this site, and see if an Adobe engineer responds (occasionally they do).
Best of luck.

When drag current slide number not getting using this variable containerMC.rdinfoCurrentSlide;

Hi
I have made the simulation using Captivate 4 and published the project in Flash Player 8. This swf file, I have loaded in the flash and I have made my custom progress bar in flash 8 for it. When I drag rapidly, some time, I not getting the current slide number using this variable containerMC.rdinfoCurrentSlide;
Do you have any idea why this is happing

Hi Ravi,
to change the title dynamically, you need to redefine the Methode:
IF_BSP_WD_HISTORY_STATE_DESCR~GET_STATE_DESCRIPTION in your main component overview.
go through this code and modify as per your requirement.
DATA lv_bp_number TYPE string.
   DATA: lr_cucobupa    TYPE REF TO cl_crmcmp_b_cucobupa_impl.
   TRY .
       lr_cucobupa ?= get_custom_controller( if_iccmp_global_controller_con=>cucobp ).
     CATCH cx_sy_move_cast_error.
       RETURN.
   ENDTRY.
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Remediate to content slide; return to question; then continue on - using Captivate 8

Using Captivate 8, I’m trying to remediate from a Knowledge Check question slide back to a content slide, then back to the KC question to try again, and then continue on from there. On my first instance, this works fine. However, the problems began on the second instance and continue on each instance thereafter. The settings on the KC question slides are all the same with the exception of which slide each jumps to for remediation. I don't understand why it works the first time, but doesn’t work after that. On the second instance the question jumps back to the content slide, but then skips any subsequent slides.   Anyone had a similar experience? Know of a workaround or what I might be doing wrong?
FYI, I'm using he E-Learning Uncovered Adobe Captivate 8 book by Elkins, Pinder, and Slade as a reference, and it clearly describes how to do this on page 183, "Remediation back to Content Slides - If students get a question wrong, you can branch back to one or several slides where the content was taught and then return them back to the quiz to retry the question. To add remediation branching: 1) in the last attempt field on the question, set a Jump to Slide action to the first slide with the content. 2) On the last slide with the content, add a return to Quiz action on the slide's next button. On the content slide, the Next button with the Return to Quiz action executes a Continue action under normal circumstances, but returns students to the quiz if that's where they came from."
Please see content map below:
Content
Mapping:
Slide 1 – Content
Slide 2 – Content
Slide 3 – Content
Slide 4 – Content
Slide 5 – Content
Slide 6 – Content
Slide 7 – Content
Slide 8 – Content
Slide 9 – Knowledge Check Question -Remediates back to slide 5 if user misses two attempts to answer; slide 5 returns user to Slide 9 for one last try at question, then advances to Slide 10 (works perfectly)
Slide 11 – Content (here’s the first problem; on click, slide 11 jumps to the Knowledge Check Question on Slide 13, skipping slide 12)
Slide 12 – Content
Slide 13 – Knowledge Check Question that remediates back to slide 11 if user misses on 2 attempts to answer; slide 11 should return user here for one last try at question, then advance to Slide 14
Slide14 – Content
Slide 15 – Content (here’s the second problem; on click, slide 15 jumps to the Knowledge Check Question on Slide 19, skipping slides 16, 17, and 18)
Slide 16 – Content
Slide 17 – Content
Slide 18 – Content

I've tried contacting Adobe, too, but with no clear resolution yet.  One suggestion they gave me was to put the slide you are remediating back to right before the question slide. However, if you can only remediate back to the slide immediately before the question slide, that limits this functionality severely. My solution has been to remediate to a duplicate, but separate content slide using buttons rather than quiz logic. Cumbersome, but it works.
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Remediate to content slide; return to question; then continue on - using Captivate 8
created by camelothome in Quizzing/LMS - View the full discussionI have the same problem with my project. If the player detects that a quiz has begun, it sees it as in quiz scope. Thus, when it encounters the next slide after the quiz slides that has "Return to Quiz" as the Exit Action, it instead goes to the next set of quiz questions and skips a bunch of content slides. I don't know where I read it, but I thought that if the slide was being visited for the first time, and did not come from a quiz, the "Return to Quiz" would have no effect and it would continue to the next content slide. Perhaps I am wrong, but I thought that was the correct behavior. I've attempted to get help from Adobe, but the operator was not very helpful. He wanted me to upload my file using wetransfer.com but gave me an invalid e-mail address. Since that was the second attempt to get help, I gave up on Adobe Support. Although I get the suggest above, it's a pain, especially since I don't have buttons on the content slides. I have the player just playing with the playbar available for pauses. So, now I have to create some sort of workaround using variables, but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work. In fact, I'm not sure what I did yesterday that caused it to work correctly for a while, but I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything related to this. Of course, then it stopped working. I find Adobe Captivate to be pretty buggy and it's put me way behind in delivering a product to my client. I'm very frustrated. If the reply above answers your question, please take a moment to mark this answer as correct by visiting: https://forums.adobe.com/message/7548938#7548938 and clicking ‘Correct’ below the answer Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed an image in your message please visit the thread in the forum and click the camera icon: https://forums.adobe.com/message/7548938#7548938 To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at , click "Following" at the top right, & "Stop Following" Start a new discussion in Quizzing/LMS by email or at Adobe Community For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1516624.

Captivate Variables Only Display in Template--Not .CP File

Hi There,
I'm new to Captivate 4, but have been using Captivate for roughly four years or so. I have used the $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ variable in a template. When I use the Preview function in the template I can see the slide numbers as they should be displayed. However, when I create a Captivate file based on the template, the slide numbers don't display at all. Is this normal? I'm guessing I used the variable properly or it wouldn't even display in the template, but any light you could shed on this would be very helpful. BTW, I searched the knowledgebase as well as this forum and couldn't find any info on this issue, so please pardon me if the info is there and I didn't find it. I would be happy to send an individual contributor the template and .cp files if necessary, but am hesitant to post them here. Many thanks in advance for your help.
Jayney

Hi There,
I just posted a reply to the following:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2293463
Unfortunately, the original poster's fix doesn't seem to be working for
me. I just wanted to bring this to your attention because I thought this
might be easy to miss. Many thanks for any help you can provide.
Jayney
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I'd be happy to take a look for you.
rstone75 (at) kc (dot) rr (dot) com
Cheers... Rick
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Quiz not advancing after incorrect answer (quiz uses user variables to show wrong answers)

Hello All,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Hopefully someone can help me.
After viewing this excellent video on the adobe captivate blog "so what were the right answers anyway" I created a quiz with user variables and a conditional advance action. It displays red crosses next to the each question that was incorrectly answered at the end of the quiz.
I set up user variable for each question with a value of 0. On an incorrect answer the variable would be set to 1.
At the end of the quiz is a slide which lists the question and shows a red cross next to each question with a variable set to 1. uses conditional action which is triggered "On Enter"
This works, but my problem is when I preview the quiz (in browser or as SWF), on an incorrect answer the failure caption appears but will not actually advance to the next question when I click anywhere or press y. It works OK on correct answers.
I can sovle this by adding a next button, but I want to understand what I'm doing wrong.
Using captivate 6.0.1.240 (boxed copy)
windows 7
images on quiz properties and conditional action below
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Jacob C

I tested this work flow on 6.1.319 and it works fine. So it is a bit guessing in the wild... no 6.0.1.240 around for the moment. Seems strange, because a simple action like your Assign action should normally release the playhead. But of course it is a question slide and they do not always behave as expected. Could you try to replace the Assign action by a standard advanced action with 2 statements, like this:
Assign var_question_1 with 1
Continue
And please, let me know if it works? This could be a difference between the two versions, but not sure at all.
Lilybiri

Campus Tours sites of the day - how do they use Captivate?

Hello,
I'm new to Captivate and am still figuring out which situations it might be easier to use it rather than building something in Flash. I can see that quizzes, screen-casts and scenarios are obvious places. But I've also been looking at the first two 'Site of the Day' examples in the Adobe Captivate showcase (the campus tours of AI Philadelphia and Berklee College of Music) and I can't see how they would have used Captivate to produce them.
The examples are both very nice promotional presentations about universities and they look great - nice internal popups with videos, images etc. I understand that you could build widgets to provide these kind of features but I don't understand what the benefit would then be of importing these in to Captivate rather than just building it in Flash. Am I missing something obvious? Do people use Captivate for storyboarding and then move into Flash?
Any advise would be appreciated. I do love Captivate so far but am not sure how to put it to use most effectively.

It depends how fancy you want to get.
The easiest way to achieve this is to do as you currently have, but set the On Exit action for the final slide in each group to jump back to the Menu slide.
In order to give the user the option of continuing on to the next slide, you can place a button on the final slide of each group and set it's action to jump to the first slide of the next group. You need to set up some variables and Advanced Actions to show/hide this button depending on whether or not the user has clicked the button on the menu to view all slides. If they've just clicked the button for a particular group, the Continue button remains hidden and they'll be jumped back to the menu. The disadvantage of this method is that it requires the user to click something at the end of each group to continue to the next.
If you want the user make their choice on the menu slide to play all sections one after the other, and then to be seamlessly taken to each new group without clicking anything, then you need to get slightly fancier with your Variables and Advanced Actions. Basically, On Exit of the final slide in each group, instead of the action to jump back to the menu, you need to have it perform a check to see what the value of the variable is that determines whether to continue or not. If the variable is 1 (to indicate continuous play), then it will jump to the beginning slide of the next group. If the variable is 0, then it should jump back to the menu.
If you're unfamiliar with Captivate Advanced Actions and user variables, this is your opportunity to learn!

Using a variable in communication channel

Hi,
I have a lot of Communication Channels looking for files in the same directory. This directory's path will be changed soon and so I assume I'll have to change all my Communication Channels.
I was wondering whether there was a means of using a variable for the Source Directory in order to just have to change its value where it is defined and not every where it is used...
Regards
Yann

Hi,
Is this a sender file adapter? or a receiver file adapter?
You can make a change / make the receiver file adapter's directory dynamic by setting the value during runtime in the mapping.
Use this blog and the code in the blog to acheive this,
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Error in using System Variable

Dear all,
I want to use System Variable 225 ( VAT percent (per VAT code) ) which is used in one of document i.e. "VAT Only Invoice".
When I used it in my Invoice document the following error occurs:
Printing Error : Invalid Variable number (RPT -6300)(Field:F_XXX) Variable 'XXX'
Please help me to use this System Variable in my Invoice.
Note: I have already read "How To Use the PLD Variables File in Release 2007 A" .pdf file.
can any one tell the meaning of folowing which is in the sheet "vars utilisation" of PLD_Vars_march2007 xls file
" it means that this variable can be used only under certain repetitive area exclusive numbers (109, 126, 132, 135, 139, 148, 149, 309, 316, 427, 502, 509, 686)
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Ghazanfar
Edited by: Ghazanfar Ahmed on Jun 18, 2009 12:16 PM

Hi,
It is a special variable available for the VAT summary part, not to be used in the rows but in a separate repetitive area.
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Error in using a variable in filter condition in an Interface

Hi All,
I am using a variable in my interface in a filter condition. I have an EMP table of scott schema and want to pull all the records wiht hiredate date lying between 2 dates, incremental pull.For this I have created 2 variables and using them in the filter condition. I am getting an error inthe interface when I run in a package after declaring and refresing the variables.
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Krishna

Hi Krishna,
What is the datatype of the Variable lastupdate ?
In my case
Variable
Name : LastUpdateDate
Datatype : Alphanumeric
Action : Historize
Query : select to_char(to_date(sysdate,'DD-MON-YY'),'DD-MON-YY') from sys.dual
Then in filter I used
EMP.HIREDATE>to_date('#LastUpdateDate','DD-MON-YY')
Thanks
Sutirtha

Using a variable as a value in jsp:param

I was wondering, I have a String variable, vid_1, and want to use a jsp:include and pass that in as one of the parameters. How can I do this? I have to do some testing to make sure vid_1 is valid and set a default if not. It contains a number referring to which video needs to be displayed.
Is there anyway I can get this value to be used in jsp:param value?
John

RahulSharna wrote:
Well,First thing you haven't pharsed your question properly.
Anyways as per my understading.
The first thing is make use of in this case as your defined requirement states you need to make use of variables of both the JSP's which need compile time include not at the runtime.use of
<%@ include file="url" %>would be more appropriate as you want to use the variable of parent jsp to the child one.
Anyways if you are thinking to apply a solution using <jsp:include/>
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REGARDS,
RaHuLRaHul,
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For now I was trying to use c:set to save the variable in the request and then using the EL expression ${requestScope.variable} to put it in the <jsp:param> element. I had some things working and others not when I quit. Hopefully tomorrow I can give you a full report and we can get this worked out.
Maybe my problem is something else? Look at this post of mine:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5236252&tstart=10
Thanks so much for the help.
John

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i wrote an script which gets an input & use that variable to set ip address on NIC. but actually it doesn't set ip address. may you please help me.
my script contains:
$VMNumber=Read-Host "please enter your VM number (for example 2)"
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1. I do not thing that the use of netsh is a right way.
2. You will need a table with MAC address in first column and IP address in second to correctly map IP address to computer. MAC addresses are unique identification.
3. Follow this article including comments and adapt scripts to your task
http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-wmi-methods/
HTH
Milos
hi Milos
thank a lot for your useful answer.
but let me say that my need has nothing to do with MAC address.
in my test lab, i need an script which asks the administrators to enter their VM number & it saves this input as a variable & set is as the last octet in their VM IPV4 Address.
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Using a variable in a js function argument

Folks,
This is very basic, but I still cannot get it...
I have this js function in an ASP page:function MM_changeProp(objId,x,theProp,theValue) { //v9.0
var obj = null; with (document){ if (getElementById)
obj = getElementById(objId); }
if (obj){
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1) initialize and assign the variable a value, and where to establish it (inside the script tags? in the head? in the body?)
2) how to use the variable as an argument in the function
any help greatly appreciated for this novice. thanks!

ajetrumpet wrote:
Folks,
This is very basic, but I still cannot get it...
I have this js function in an ASP page:This forum is not about ASP nor JavaScript. Please use Google to find an appropriate JavaScript forum.

Using a variable in an instance name

Hey all,
Simple question:
I'm trying to use a variable to call on different instance names:
var picCaller:uint=2;
material_mc.addChild(pic_""+picCaller+"");
The code in red is the issue in question. In this example, I'm trying to add a child called "pic_2", with the number two called from the variable "picCaller"
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Just for context, here is what I'm trying to do:
I have jpegs in my library and I want to add them to the stage when they're needed, so just to add one image, here is the code I have:
var pic_1=new pic1(0,0);
var image_1:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_1);
material_mc.addChild(image_1);
I want to put the above into a loop so that I dont have to repeat those three lines for every image in my library like so:
var pic_1=new pic1(0,0);
var image_1:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_1);
var pic_2=new pic2(0,0);
var image_2:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_2);
var pic_3=new pic3(0,0);
var image_3:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_3);
var pic_4=new pic4(0,0);
var image_4:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_4);
var pic_5=new pic5(0,0);
var image_5:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_5);
var pic_6=new pic6(0,0);
var image_6:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_6);
var pic_7=new pic7(0,0);
var image_7:Bitmap=new Bitmap(pic_7);
the variable "picNum" is the total amount of images that in the library, each one exported as "pic1", "pic2", "pic3" respectively.
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var picCaller:uint=1;
var picMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
picMC=this["pic_"+picCaller];
for (var i:int = 1; i <= picNum; i=i+1)
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