What is behind Advanced Actions?

Are advanced actions based on JavaScript? What does the output of an advanced action look like from a programmer's perspective?
My client has hit a snag with the courses I created for them. I had created Exit buttons using an advanced action, as recommended here in this forum. Everything was fine when testing with the ADL suite and with Rustici. But the Exit buttons do not do a thing now that they are implemented in their own LMS (Oracle). (Also, using SCORM 1.2.)
The project/contract have ended for me and I have moved on, but I want to provide them some guidance. What could be going wrong? So, I was wondering -- Are advanced actions based on JavaScript? What does the output of an advanced action look like from a programmer's perspective? (No programmer I, but I do want to point them in the right direction.)
Thanks all!

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    The new command Pause (asked for it, as for some others) is just an easier way of setting cpCmndPause to 1, nothing more. It has no parameters, you cannot time the pause at all.
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    Hello,
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  • What kind of variable / advanced action would I need to do this?

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  • Display selection of user variables later on in project - can't get advanced action to work

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  • Using Advanced Actions to Make a button appear only after three other click boxes have been clicked.

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  • How do I use the same execute advanced actions?

    I am using captivate 5, windows 7
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    Hello,
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    Lilybiri

  • Click box - advanced actions - dims images

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    Hello again
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  • Text Entry Box--Advanced Actions--Conditional Statement--Double quotes in literal input value

    Hello forums,
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    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).
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  • How to get an advanced action to respond to text selection in dropdown widgets

    I want to provide a user with a set of dropdowns containing text strings, and if they select the right combination of dropdown entries, give them a Continue button, and if they don't select the right combination then give them an error message and solution.
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    Objects in the demo
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    I run this and only ever get the ELSE response (i.e. I can select two Rights and the Submit button still displays the Wrong text box).
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    Thanks, for the help guys. However...
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    I've uploaded my first demo, without any other changes, to Google Docs, if you want to check it:
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  • Advanced actions - trying to show a text caption

    I have a slide with 5 text captions made from smart shapes, and 5 click boxes. All 5 smart shapes are hidden. I have 5 variables, all of which are set to zero. When a click box is clicked on, the corresponding smart shape shows and the value of the first user variable is set to one. When another click box is clicked on the corresponding smart shape shows and the next user variable is set to 1. Each of the click boxes is set up in a similar fashion. I set up 5 advanced actions, and the On Success action for each of the click boxes uses one of 5 advanced actions. The action for each click box looks something like this (I'm using generic names for this example):
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    @Sreekanth, that is not the correct approach, because a user could click 5 times on the same click box and see the final text caption. Only when you disable an already clicked interactive object this can be used. Jay was right by choosing five different variables.
    @Jay How do you trigger that last conditional action? Which event do you use? You explain that the first described action is triggered by the click box, but not what is triggering the conditional action.
    I suspect you'll have to combine both actions, and assign them to each click box. That means a conditional action with two decisions:
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    Second decision 'Checker' is the conditional action that you wrote, checking the values of the 5 variables, and if they have all the value 1 to show the feedback text.

  • Can I use conditional and advanced actions on the same button?

    I'm fairly new to Captivate, but come from a background of flash and am struggling to use Captivate to do some things I would have expected to be fairly simple and a normal requirement.
    I want to create a screen with a number of interactive objects, in this case pictures, that the learner clicks on to display a piece of text.
    On clicking the next picture the first piece of text is hidden and a second piece shown.
    There are 6 pictures/buttons that need to work this way.
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    I can do the hide/show of text and buttons, and I've written a conditional action to check the variables for each button. However I don't know how/when to call this action.
    I was hoping that in my advanced action for each button I could add in a call to the conditional 'check variables' action, which would nicely fulfil this requirement, however this doesn't seem to be the case.
    I have also got animation/effects on the timeline before the images are on screen meaning I don't want to go back to the start of the timeline to use a 'on enter' event.
    I'm surprised this isn't something more people need as although it may be frowned upon out in the e-learning field, disabled navigation is frankly not going away and working for any large corporation will be a must.
    If anyone can shed some light on this, or maybe suggest a better approach then I would appreciate it.
    Thanks.

    Hi Lilybiri,
    Thank you for this, I suspected that this was going to be the way I would have to progress.
    I have to ask though, at present the company I work for uses a very straight forward off the shelf WYSIWYG elearning content designer.
    One of the core template pages is a hotspot page, which works in the way I have explained at the top.
    This is also one of the standard e-learning pages I have used in all my other positions, including when building in Flash.
    It seems incredible to me that to do such a simple, commonly used, page type we will require what is a fairly involved process rather than this being one of the page types or templates.
    I am currently trying to pilot Captivate to show how much better it is to the current product, however the other designers have no programming background and I think will stuggle with the conditional actions, meaning that this is pretty much going to be a no go which I'm gutted about...
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    RodWard, thanks for your comments, I'm finding the actions ok in Captivate, as I say above I'm just amazed that this simple and commonly used page is so convoluted to create!
    My other frustration is the lack of control of the events, not being able to specify x and y for motions etc. but I'm finding work arounds...
    Is there a way to create my own page template? Could I write all the actions and bundle that into a page to provide the other designers so with some naming conventions they could use this functionality?
    Thanks for your help.
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  • How can you trigger more than 1 advanced action?

    I wonder if someone can answer a very quick question for me that I'm struggling with at the moment
    I have 6 stacks of 16 images. I have the user select the name of the image they want to show in each stack, and then I have an advanced action that runs to show only the image they have selected. Currently I have 6 actions, one for each stack of images.
    What I need to do is to run all 6 advanced actions as the user enters a page so they only see the 6 images they have selected on the previous slide. My problem is that I can only seem to run one advanced action upon slide entry (or from a button or anything else). Is there a way to combine advanced actions, or to run more than one action from a single command? Or does this require a different approach?
    Thanks in advance for your help.
    James

    Thanks Lilybiri and RonWard,
    I guess I could have been clearer in my question.
    I'm using Cp5 and to give you an idea of what I'm doing I've pasted an image of the slide I'm playing with below.
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    So... I've created 6 advanced actions, one for each stack of images. (I suspect that was my mistake).
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