Variables in Quiz

Hello captivaters!
I'm having a problem finding a variable in the Quiz report
screen in captivate 2.0. At the end of a quiz is possible to
display your results; total questions correct answerd, accuracy,
maximum score and so on. This works great, but I want to know what
the name (variable) and location (level) is for those numbers. I've
searched the internet and documents... I even tried to decompile a
movie, but I didn't work out.
I have made a print functionality in MacroMedia flash whichs
prints a cerficate, on this I want to print the results of the
quiz. Who can help me solve my problem?
Greetings from the Netherlands,
Pascal Timmermans
(flash user from the beginning, and verry happy with
Capitvate 2.0).

Hi,
The below variables gets populated once you start taking the
Quiz.
cpQuizInfoLastSlidePointScored - returns the points scored
for your last question. You need to have this variable after every
Question slide.
cpQuizInfoPointsscored - returns the total points scored for
the Quiz. You need to use it after the last Question.
cpQuizInfoTotalCorrectAnswers - returns total correct answers
after taking the Quiz.You need to use it after the last Question.
Below variables gets prepopulated and need to not require
taking Quiz -
cpQuizInfoTotalProjectPoints - Total points for the project.
cpQuizInfoTotalQuizPoints - Same as above one
Please take the Quiz and check if the variables are getting
populated appropriately and let me know if it helped.
thanks
ravi

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