Why is Captivate 4 so expensive for Aussies?

Sorry people, complain / whinging here, not a question:
Can anyone explain why my Captivate 4 upgrade costs so much more just because I'm based in Australia?
How can something priced USD299 be A$482?
My company's been a loyal Captivate user since the macromedia version 1, and we've never even called Adobe for support since the forum and other online resources are so good.
Just doesn't make any sense to me, but unfortuantely everyone from Adobe to Apple thinks it's OK to rip us off.

Hi there
Hopefully Michael's suggestion will work for you.
Just to let you know, the issue extends beyond AU. I have a good friend in England that has the same issue. I may be wrong, but I think it's got something to do with the fact that things are in other countries and different languages are used in many places. As a result, they have to localize into the other languages and an additional expense is involved with that and it drives up the cost of the software.
Unfortunately, you likely use English where you are and localization isn't really needed. So you are effectively subsidizing the cost for the other countries where English isn't the main language.
Just my .02 worth. But given today's economic conditions, I think I probably owe you $20 because of the devaluation!
Cheers... Rick
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SUMMARY: I am trying to use SCORM 2004 reporting but I am finding out ADOBE does not diffentiate between COMPLETE/INCOMPLETED and PASSED/FAILED variables in the SCORM 2004.
RESULT: I can not accurately get the passing/failing status from the course.
QUESTION: Is their anything I can do or does ADOBE have a patch they have release which will accurately report the passed/failed STATUS as well as the completed/incompleted status.
OTHER RESEARCH: I even attempted to post these "proofs" on scorm.com and they have something called "SATISFACTION TRACKED" to accomodate content creation systems (CAPTIVATE 5) which does not follow the standards of SCORM 2004.
BACKGROUND: the report status "Incomplete/Complete" and "Pass/Fail" under the publishing options for SCORM 2004 essentially mean the same thing when the CAPTIVATE COURSE sends setvar commands to the SCORM API... In other words the SCORM API receives the same exact commands when publishing in both modes. "THIS IS WRONG"
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DEMO #3> SHOWS THE PROBLEM
About DEMO #1 and DEMO #2> these are other reporting options I attempted with other problems arrising..so these images are just for supporting my original problem which is shown in DEMO #3...
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DEMO 2 (Report status [Complete/Incomplete Pass/Fail] has no impact on commands sent to scorm api):
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PASS: (CORRECT)
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FAIL: (PROBLEM)
NOTHING GETS SENT TO DATABASE (stuck in final score screen forever)...because it says "INCOMPLETE"
DEMO 3:
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SETTINGS:
PASS: (CORRECT)
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FAIL: (PROBLEM)
LAST SLIDE SENDS "completed" but GETS SENT AS A PASSING SCORE??? even when it is a failure
(IN OTHER WORDS ADOBE CHANGES THE PASS/FAIL STATUS based on slide views...
this is WRONG ....REALLY WRONG becuase I am trying to report
"COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE" for 100% slide views
PASS/FAIL OPTIONS:
OPTION I CAN PURSUE?
SO WHAT CAN I DO? YES, I CAN TELL THE LMS...to COMPARE THE SCORE RECEIVED DURING A "COMPLETE" status...and then change the grade in the LMS based on the SCORE IN THE LMS...BUT THAT WOULD MEAN THE LMS COULD REPORT ONE GRADE and the COURSE COULD REPORT A DIFFERENT GRADE....and that would not be good.
ALL OF OUR COURSES SHOW THE STUDENT THE FINAL SCORE WITHIN EACH COURSE..
QUESTION TO ADOBE?
SO ADOBE when are you going to differentiate these two reporting options so that the PASS/FAIL OPTIONS ARE ACCURATELY REPORTED WHEN USING COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE?
MORE INFORMATION
HERE IS THE SCORM.COM "Satisfaction" adjustment (very last line) to accomodate inconsistent reporting in CAPTIVATE 5.
Thanks,
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Hi,
Here's something I found in a similar situation... hope this helps!
After publishing your CP5 project as a SCORM 2004 zip file, unzip the file so you can get into the separate files. Open the imsmanifest.xml file with a text editor; I like using Notepad++. Search for the line starting with <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>. The complete line will probably look like <imss:minNormalizedMeasure></imss:minNormalizedMeasure>, this is the line that is supposed to contain your passing score (at least for our LMS). So, if your passing score is supposed to be 80%, edit this line to be: <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>0.80</imsss:minNormalizedMeasure> and save the file. Then select all the files and re-zip them, I use 7-zip for that.
I found one other weird thing that doesn't happen 100% of the time, so test it. In the example above, try to get a score of exactly 80% (or whatever passing grade you are using) and see if you get the correct status reported. I found I sometimes have to re-edit that line in the manifest file to be 0.79 so it correctly includes an exact 80% score. No idea why and you have to watch the number of questions in your quiz to make sure that works for you mathematically.
If this works or not, I'd recommend posting your results so others can get some ideas. Good Luck!!

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Hello anyone, i have recently ran into a problem importing
power point files into Captivate. The problem occurs when
Captivate's importing option for power point is selected. Captivate
acts as if it is starting to download with a small wheel/blue pie
type graphic that turns to indicate computer processes.
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performances, there is nothing happening on either the CPU storage
or the page file history. So there is something is not right I'm
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I had this problem - it is a permissions issue. You need to
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Nokia's HUGE expensive (for us n95 owners) mistake!
First of all...
Take a look on this Symbian/Smartphone overview :
Nokia 6600 (Year 2002/2003)
Free RAM to use : 9MB
Camera (Video) : 176*144pixels
Use of free RAM : 1-2MB (11-22%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 7-8MB (78-89%)!!!
Nokia N70 (Year 2005?)
Free RAM to use : 32MB
Camera (Video) : 352x288pixels
Use of free RAM : 3-4MB (9-13%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 28-29MB (87-91%)!!!
Nokia n73 (Year 2006?)
Free RAM to use : 20MB
Camera (Video) : 352x288pixels
Use of free RAM : 4-5MB (20-25%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 15-16MB (75-80%)!!!
Nokia n95 (Year 2007)
Free RAM to use : 20MB
Camera (Video) : 640x480pixels
Use of free RAM : 14-15MB (70-75%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 5-6MB (25-30%)???
Nokia N95-US (Year 2007)
Free RAM to use : 84MB
Camera (Video) : 640*480pixels
Use of free RAM : 14-15MB (16-18%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 69-70MB (82-84%)!!!
Nokia N95-8GB (Year 2007)
Free RAM to use : 84MB
Camera (Video) : 640*480pixels
Use of free RAM : 14-15MB (16-18%)
Free memory to use
(on the same time when using camera) = 69-70MB (82-84%)!!!
The phone's are using 0.5-3mb of the free ram too
normal phone functions. This is added to the camera memory
because it will close down running programs if there are
not enough memory to camera + "normal function".
(If some thing is not correct... then tell me!).
Conclusion :
Almost all symbian phones in this overview have
more than 75% of free RAM to programs and "system"
programs, when you are recording a movie, or watching a
recorded movie in gallery.
BUT!: N95 has only 5-6mb (25-30%) of free RAM to this job! :/
What do this mean?
Well for many people they get an ERROR MEMORY message some times.
And for some "heavy" symbian programs users
(that also use "system" programs),
they get this messages ALOT!
I got it 9 out of 10 when I will record a movie or watch one.
And I have ONLY 3-4MB of Symbian "system" programs running!
Well some question's :
01) Is it Nokia's first Symbian smartphone?
02) Could we know/read that the camera will use about
15mb out of 20mb, before we buy the n95?
03) Does Symbian means that u can improve/expand
the functions in the mobile, with new symbian's programs?
04) Are the Symbian system and programs (in 2007)
more RAM hungry then in 2003 (Nokia 6600)?
05) Is it fair to use "system" Symbian programs (3. parts) in n95?
06) Is it fair to multitaske in n95?
07) Would it be fair to use the video camera AND
listen to musik on the same time ...in a device like n95?
08) And how many MB (max),
in a device like n95 and in the year 2007,
is fair to use to Symbian system programs?
09) Does programs and Nokia system funktions (and menu's)
give all memory back when they have been used?
10) If not, would it be fair, too Nokia,
if we say they should knew that?
11) Has ANY mobile (Samsung, SE or Nokia) in the HISTORY
got an RAM improving in the next model version
(like n93 and n93i)?
And it is more than 400% improved free RAM in this case!
12) Well... is Nokia N95 so a FULL symbian smartphone?
Or is is a "HALF"?
13) And if it is a "half" ..what can WE do with this NOKIA mistake?
14) And WHY should WE pay for this Nokia mistake?
My personal opinion is :
That Nokia should give us some money back,
or some thing else, so we will not loose so much when we will try to sell the n95, so we can get a full symbian mobile anno 2007 ...like N95-8GB!
We should could count on that when we buy a
SYMBIAN Smartphone it has enough RAM to run some few programs in the backgound, when we use the built-in camera or galleri in the phone. Why else buy a Symbian phone?
Let us debate!
(and if YOU think I have right ...then let Nokia know it!)
(sorry for my bad english)
Btw: Take a look on this good smartphone show :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS7GJDLUuXM
(especially in the end)
and...
I have just sold my n95! With a loss!
But I am still angry on Nokia! Thats why I post this.
And I hope Nokia do not make
this mistake again in the future.
And now I have to wait for the n95 8GB
...the real n95 symbian phone.
N95 is only a "half" Symbian phone. The n95 is now called: "N95 Beta" by heavy symbian users.
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=smartphones&message.id=56819

Pioneer?
Well n95 has almost the same camera like the n93 so you mean they are pioneer twise?
And when was it Nokia produced the first symbian smartphone?
And why did they put in less free memory in n95 than n70?
Take a look just on the camera differense. Why less memory?
They have experiense from the n93? the camera use alot of RAM when u record og would see a recorded movie.
14-15 mb out of 20 in a symbian smartphone.
I like n95 but i cant use it like a full symbian smartphone.
Not with this RAM and camera.
I hoped that a firmware will do the trick.
But now I have tryed 2 ...and it is a little worse now.
How will they fix this? They can't.
Therefore the 2 new upgrade model's got 128mb.
Btw: Do u mean 128mb of ram in n95? ...its only 64mb in the old n95.
N95 is only a "half" Symbian phone. The n95 is now called: "N95 Beta" by heavy symbian users.
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=smartphones&message.id=56819

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This is my personal opinion about this topic! Again and again I stumble about this and now I want to share some of my thoughts about this topic. I want to share this from a point of view, when I was not a SAP Employee - I worked at a SAP Partner company - because this best reflects the view from the outside.
1. SAP "wants" us to use SAPUI5
I don't think that "wants" is the right word - the right word is offers! In terms of: hey now even included in your license and open sourced (because you wanted it so). Look - we build sooo many Fiori apps with it - and put in some great enterprise features (right to left, accessibility, translation, ...) and it is responsive. So if you want to build Fiori-like "apps" - there you go - this is your technology to go! This is what I understood.
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I always had the feeling, that SAPUI5 was meant for B2E applications - and building many of that - and they should look and feel the same and I can theme the apps. I can use it when I want to make my applications SAP like - so that the user thinks the apps are all the same and everything fits nicely into the Fiori launchpad - great if you want to build partner apps. In my ex company we won a SAP Pinnacle Award - for a native iOS app, no SAPUI5 in sight - but we have received an award, so SAP did not "want us" to use SAPUI5 ;-)
2. Is it the right UI technology for everything?
At my ex-company I was dealing with mobile applications and web apps. I always knew that I get the best user experience when I write a real native application and if you want it to look like in a very specific way with awesome UI --> you would not do it with a write-once-run-everywhere HTML5 super-styled wrapped (phone gap/cordova) app - you would write the apps for the specific platform and it should feel like it was written for the platform. SAP offered us the SAP Fiori Client that I could enhance the user experience for the Fiori apps, but I was never told to use SAPUI5 it for everything.
The same discussion goes on with: why was the new SAP website not build with SAPUI5, or the UX Explorer (eat your own dog food), or a useful internal app - why Angular, or the other way around why do we even use SAPUI5 and not Angular JS itself. Back to the past - SAP did never tell me to build a website with it, or to build something tiny and small with it (a widget) - or to enhance parts of a website with it - or to build something super-specific with it.
And yes maybe the UI in a mobile app was not SAPUI5 but do you know if it uses Gateway with OData or the SAP Mobile Platform, was the API managed with Apigee, was HCI involved in getting the data from different sources, was it maybe wrapped with SAP Mobile Secure, did it maybe use a HANA backend or some of its features (predictions, text analytics, ...) - are some backend parts maybe hosted on HCP - who knows? So yeah, maybe other SAP technology was involved which you don't see, but in the end it made your life simpler.
Instead of arguing around why this and that was used for this and that - can we save our energy and instead look at the result - which is all what counts - that it was the right UI technology with the right user interface which makes the user happy? I stated something like - does Google use AngularJS for everything? Nope. They offer us something great we can use. Right, maybe AngularJS is not as important for Google like SAPUI5 is for us. But we have something with which we can build our day-to-day business apps with and we do so.
3. We missed great opportunity in not using SAPUI5 for this and that
Let's think about how projects are going: you want something, you look at the costs, you choose most efficient option. Yes this could mean reusing an existing native application which was written long ago and you pimped it up. Or you had outsourced it to a company which wrote a similar app. Or you bought the source code. Or you have some cheap internal staff which could do it (students, trainee), or you could outsource it cheaply. Or all you have is people with experience in this and that technology. Or it must look in a very very specific way (because marketing says so) and you go native. Or it maybe should even differentiate itself and should look NOT like a Fiori app. And no - I don't think - this is my employees view - we are not for example an event app producer. We normally build business applications. And I don't think that we can write an app from scratch "just" for an event in a certain technology. Yes it would be nice if this and that would use SAPUI5, I think if it would be possible in terms of time and costs and UI wishes and hundreds of other factors we would do it with SAPUI5.
Working at the partner SAP showed me over 50 Fiori apps, now hundreds of Fiori apps are released. SAP now showed that SAPUI5 is going big with S/4HANA. We have seen the Simple Finance solution. I was walking around at the CeBIT this year and I was impressed myself which cool apps and screens have been shown with SAPUI5. I used the SAPUI5 app on a Samsung Smart Watch myself. The SAP Web IDE itself is built with SAPUI5 in its heart. I don't need any other "proves" that SAPUI5 is great. I have seen great use cases for it, but I also know myself when I would use other stuff.
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There is never every anything which can cover all different use cases. One-size-fits-all clothes also does not fit for everyone even if it says so. If someone creates something great don't judge it by the UI technology. Judge it by the experience and the value it creates. There are reasons why this and that was chosen. Use what fits your needs best with your requirements. Make the end user happy!

Hey Denise,
Thanks for pulling this discussion into SCN. Makes it much easier to discuss compared to Twitter. But I also have to apologize in the beginning that my answer now exceeds 140 characters by 50 times.
Let me share my thoughts and personal opinion as well. I will try to look at it from a strategic point of view, as you – as the technical UI5 expert - have already covered the technical perspective.
SAP recommends using SAPUI5 where it fits to customers’ requirements
Let me begin with a clear statement from my perspective: It makes no sense that SAP takes customer decisions.
Of course, customers expect SAP to help them with their strategies and decisions and of course we are helping. But at the end, the decisions have to be taken by the customer who needs to take the specific conditions of the company into account. The most important condition in the context of UX is the end user. But we shouldn't forget the business strategy as the most important influence factor. I’m not saying that technical decisions are completely unimportant, but I would like to point out that other things are more important for a company.
As a result, it wouldn't make a lot of sense if SAP would just want every customer to use SAPUI5. To me, customers need recommendations leading to solutions that satisfy their needs and requirements.
There is not that one UI technology that serves all needs
This headline might be a challenging statement and I can already imagine reactions to it. But in fact I can confirm this sentence easily. You always have to combine different technologies. Some of them are from SAP others not. The selection and combination of these technologies is different from customer to customer because the requirements are different. There are still reasons to use Web Dynpro ABAP and I’m still recommending SAP NetWeaver Business Client, POWL (Power Lists), WDA Chips, FPM based on the given environment of the customer. And obviously there are also reasons for UI5.
SAP already proves the usage of SAPUI5
In general, I see two different use cases here: Developing custom applications vs. adopting applications from SAP.
In the one case, customers want recommendations on development environments and UI technologies that consider their development requirements and existing conditions (e.g. existing skills, given implementations). SAPUI5 is a great UI technology and there are some special aspects that make the decision obviously easy. If I want to create simple business applications that can be connected with my SAP system easily, especially in combination under responsive conditions on multiple devices and targeted for casual and/or occasional users UI5 might be the right choice for many. Exactly this pattern is what many customers are searching for these days. So, the recommendation for UI5 comes quite often.
Whether or not SAP proves the usage of SAPUI5 in their own world is to me more connected to the use case where customers want to adopt SAP applications. And in deed, SAP is using SAPUI5. There are hundreds of SAP Fiori applications that have been built with SAPUI5 and there have been a lot of other applications developed using SAPUI5, too. And again, there is a huge need for applications for casual and/or occasional users, so that’s a big reason for SAP to create such applications.
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This discussion was triggered by some statements in twitter, that SAP sites such as sap.com, SAP UX Explorer or the latest mobile conference app are not developed using UI5. Actually I see these to be websites but not business applications. I have never told a customer to build a website in UI5 and I would continue to do so.
Maybe we need to discuss the difference between a website and a business application. I guess it is not easy to find a common understanding here, as the borderlines between several worlds have disappeared in the last years.
Some years ago it was more or less easy to differ between:
Native desktop applications running on a specific desktop OS
Native mobile applications running on a specific mobile OS
Browser-based applications running in specific browsers
Websites, basically running on many browsers
In the first three categories we saw business applications. 1 and 2 were selected especially when specific functions of the device and OS where needed to be accessed (for example the camera of the mobile device, the fast rendering capability of the desktop). 3 was also used for business applications but in most cases on desktop browsers.
Today, one can develop browser-based applications that look like native applications and even can access the devices like native applications. Responsive design breaks the borderlines even more. Now, browser-based content can be rendered perfectly on a desktop browser as well as on a mobile phone and a user might even not be able to judge whether it was originally intended to be developed for the one or the other.
So maybe there is no big difference anymore between websites and browser-based applications. But there is still a difference between browser-based applications and browser-based business applications, where additional requirements such as integration into business systems are drivers. Here I see SAPUI5 as a very cool UI technology.
That’s just my 2 (personal) cents,
JJ

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