Advanced actions - trying to show a text caption

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• Show/hide text caption

  I want to hide a text caption when the user enters the screen but want to display when the user clicks on a box of click for the third time (maximum attempts). How can I do this? Advanced actions or JS. Help, please. *

  Hello and welcome to the forum,

  Possible with advanced actions, have several examples on my blog.

  This will be the workflow:

  1. Create a variable user v_counter, if the user cannot return to the slide, not need to initialize it when entering the slide, because if there is no initial value starts at 0
  2. Create the text of the legend TCWarning and set it to invisible in the properties panel
  3. create a conditional advanced action to be triggered by the success of the click box event; don't know what version of CP you use:
     1. increment the counter - CP5/5.5 in a simulated standard action that will be the first decision "Increment":
        • IF 1 is equal to 1
        • THEN Expression v_counter = v_counter + 1
     2. Check the value of the counter in a second decision 'Show '.
        • IF v_counter is equal to or greater than 3
        • SEE the TCWarning

  Lilybiri

• Advanced actions - create field shows only as white

  I am trying to create a new tip action. I have several shares that have one or two slight differences. It seems that I have to create each action from scratch every time. I think that the field "create from" would allow me to create a new action based on an existing (I have a number of them already), but this field contains only "white"... Any ideas of a workaround to get there (create action based on an existing one)?

  Create a will be open only actions shared models that allows you to create a new tip action. Check my blog for articles on joint actions.

  However for the advanced actions, you can duplicate an action, changing its name and change it. Remember to update the action.

  

• Best approach advanced actions, mulitple selections of text on a slide with other information...

  Hello

  I have to do a slide that has multiple selections of text on a slide, but using advanced actions to change each Cap. text... for example...

  A cursor with the image for the user to click, when you click on a text caption appears, and in this caption text is a chip-shaped button that says 'Next' when that is clicked then another text Cap comes up with another button which also then said, then when that is clicked on and the cap of the final text is reached says the button then close. User can click on that and returns to the slide of the same hand.

  Was then I intended to do this was advanced use actions is the right approach? (or shared)...

  In addition, if the fact this way, it will affect scorm...?

  Kind regards

  Sabine

  I don't see the connection between your question and SCORM? These buttons are rated?

  If they are a few buttons to display the new text, which is not a score for each button, I would not use that many 'Next' buttons but keep the same button and uses a counter. The content of the text caption could be a variable for which you are editing content after each click. Counter should be used to check if the close button must appear and the next button hidden. This article is such an approach to click for images: Blog after Posterous? - ClickClick - Captivate blog

  And like to have a variable instead of static text, for which you can change the value: 'Beat the system' - save time by creating advanced Actions (Captivate) - Captivate blog

  No response yet on shared or advanced actions, it depends on which version you use, answers on the score and more questions.

• Button to display invisible text captions

  Hi all!

  I'm sure there is a simple answer to my question, but since I have been looking and try things for a few days I thought going up the white flag and ask for help. I am a new user of Captivate 5.5 and advanced options, but I think I have a basic gist - just enough to get me in trouble.  So what I'm trying to accomplish:

  I have four text captions on a slide I want to allow the user to make visible by clicking a button. Most likely a transparent button placed on an image, but for now is not serious what the button looks like, just that it works. I put the button that success, it assigns a 1 to a variable named v_click (from lilybiri blog ROCKS!) and she has 5 attempts so that when the last attempt, it passes to the next slide. I wrote my first two advances of actions to check the v_click variable and depends on what this number is, see the corresponding text caption. When I saw the project, the button does nothing and my legends remain invisible. I'm sure I'm missing a step somewhere but I can't seem to get my reflection process on the right track. Ideas or points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

  

  Becky

  I am so sorry and once again on the tablet. You must show 4 text captions, every click must show in the sequence TC1, TC2, TC3, TC4. And to track clicks that we use the user created var v_click. The two actions are done in a single decision. When all the captions are visible and the user again clicks, a button should appear. But not sure sicelle last action is out or with the appearance of the last TC4. Decisions are executed in the order:

  Decision 1

  IF v_click is greater than 4

  THEN see the BtNext

  Decision 2

  IF v_click is equal to 4

  THEN see the TC4

  Expression v_click = v_click + 1

  Decision 3

  IF v_click is equal to 3

• How to make a text caption disappear in 7 Captivate?

  Hello

  I want to do a text caption to disappear.

  I don't want to use a reversal or slidelet because their region (even transparent) hotspot covers the button that stops the top, above and to the low States of reversal of projection (I want the different State colors to show). To make sure that the 3 State button colors show, I used a tip action with the button 'Show' the text caption.

  It looks great, but the text caption does not disappear when I click anywhere.

  I would like to than the legend text to disappear when the user clicks the mouse again.

  Could you please tell me how to do?

  Thank you!

  You cannot trigger an advanced action with a text caption, with an interactive object, only those who have an accordion of Action:

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions

  I wrote 'create a variable user with a default 0 ". This isn't the label of a text entry box. You can create a project, Variables or in the dialog box variable advanced actions, that has a button "Variables".

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/curious-about-variables-in-Captivate-4-5

  I used a smartshape as text container, it is indeed this text container (can also be a text caption) you want to hide, right?

  Be sure to also create the Else part.

  What you do is the following:

  If the text container is not visible, the value of the variable will be 0. In this case, the text container must be made visible (see the) AND the variable should be replaced by 1. This is the first part of the condition

  If the container is visible, the value of the variable will not be 0 but 1. In this case, the text container must be hidden AND the variable needs to be changed back to 0.

  Lilybiri

• Trying to assign a Joint Action at various elements of text in an individual shape smart

  Hello

  I'm looking for the best way of allocation for joint action to different elements of text in an individual shape smart and I was wondering if anyone can offer advice?

  As this situation seems pretty complex (for me at least), I'll try to explain below exactly what I'm trying to achieve.

  
  

  The scenario

  I built a Web-type site navigation menu that allows to include a lot of information in a slide (see image below). It comes to 2 groups of intelligent form. Group of buttons and text caption containing each group 6 intelligent forms. Works of interaction by assigning a shared standard action to each button which first hides the whole text caption, then displays just the pertinent legend, for example by clicking on the button 1 shows text Caption 1.

  

  What I'm trying to reach

  I'm trying the component snap a feature allowing the user to click on the word "Click here to see the example" that displays a separate layer that appears as a pop-up lightbox.

  
  

  The problem

  I see 2 ways to achieve this;

  1. Convert the text of the legend of a button and assign a shared action that displays the "ligthbox.
  2. Use the Insert Hyperlink dialog to assign an action advanced the text 'Click here to see example 1'.

  
  

  However, with option 1 I would be limited to the particularly that a pop-up window in the example with the legend that the entire box would be an important link.

  
  

  In option 2 as there is no option to trigger an action of the Insert Hyperlink dialog box box (see picture below), I would end up having to create a further action for each example, I wanted to include advanced. This seems overkill for what I'm trying to achieve.

  

  You can see a better way to do this? I'm sorry for the lenghty post, I feel that I could be too much thinking that it.

  Thank you

  
  Ross

  For reference, I use 8 Captivate.

  I was thinking about using a click box, but give the variable a number based on the button (your buttons on top of the screenshot) clicked. Which could then be used to make it appear the right lightbox when you click on the single click box. This approach is not usable, because you want to view several examples of a lightbox.

  However, given that you need several interactive objects within the container of a text it will be excluded. This is the reason why I suggested the unique click box.

  ATTENTION: never have two interactive objects that overlap at this moment, which will cause problems without a doubt.

  Looks like you'll have to create a group of individual for each of the viewers: text + many clique boxes needed to bring up an example. Don't forget to think about the labelling of these areas to click and albums to be able to identify when the application of the joint action which shows the example.

• Use advanced Actions show different slide

  Hello

  I am using Captivate 5 and have a problem with the display of an image with a tip action.

  I am trying to create a simple table of contents custom. I can't use integrated OCD because, as far as I know, there is no option to have appear only at the beginning of the project - it is available as long as the project is open. It is a problem for me, since I have limited screen real estate, so I can not have it on the side, and I can't bunk it. Anyway, I digress.

  At the end of each topic, I want the user to return to the table of contents and see an indicator of subjects duly filled in. I added an image which is hidden initially on the TOC next to each topic list. Then, on the question slide, the user presses navigation button, a tip action uses 'show' to make the image on visible table of contents slide and then refers the user to the table of contents. Unfortunately, the image still remains hidden.

  If the image is on the same blade that the tip action, everything works. I can also add a user variable that updates a text caption on the slide table of contents of a fast action on the slide for the topic.

  Is it possible to display an image with a tip of a different slide action?

  I see in one of the posts of Lilybiri (http://lilybiri.posterous.com/playing-hide-and-seek-with-captivate-objects):

  "You can apply action show only to objects that are really on the slide.
  e.g. you put a rectangle on slide 1, the value "Display for the rest of the project." If it is initially hidden, you can show only on slide 1, not on slides 2, 3, etc."

  However, there is a reference to "when using"Display for the rest of the project. I don't know if this limit also applies to my situation, but I suspect it might be the cause of the problem.

  As an alternative, I tried setting a variable that changes when the slide of the subject is visited. A conditional action then shows the image on the table of contents. Unfortunately I do not know how to trigger this action, as it should be something like an action "on the slide open", and I do not know if such a thing exists. In addition, this approach seems too complex.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  You are right that advanced Actions will be able to SHOW or HIDE an object on the current slide you are watching.  They have no effect on another slide that is not currently displayed.

  So what you have to do is assign the User Variables for each section of the project that the user has completed and Actions conditional Advanced triggered by the OnSlideEnter of the menu slide event allows to detect if the user has completed a section given by the value of the variable user for this section.

• Show and hide multiple items using wildcards in advanced Actions?

  Is there a way to show or hide multiple items at once by using a wildcard character in advanced Actions?  Ex: Hide all the boxes to click in the presentation that begin with click_ *.

  I'm trying to find a good way to use the same CBT to show me Mode (demo video with audio and no interaction) and the practice Mode (interactive simulation with boxes to click and prompt text box for interactions).

  I saw a few business solutions have the ability to have 1 source file that publishes on multiple formats (demo, simulation, quick guide).  However, they are a little more than 800 $de Captivate.

  Micky

  If I want to create a combination, I capture in all modes search and then copy and paste what I want one of the files? An example, but it's on a Dutch version of my blog, watch movie (power of lightning, hope, that you will always be able to see SWF?):

  http://captivatenederlands.posthaven.com/classic-tutorials

  Lilybiri

  PS as for your original question: no wildcard in advanced actions. You can filter drop-down lists on "click_" and only objects will appear then (in CP6/7) but you will still need a single statement by click box unless you group boxes click on a slide (impossible to group objects sitting on different slides).

• Show/Hide - advanced action buttons and images

  So, I thought I had a handle on usage shares advanced to show/hide, but apparently not.

  Here's the scenario:

  -Screen where the user must select one of the 6 options

  -When the user clicks on one of the 'boxes' of the option a check should appear and audio should play

  -All other "cases" should be disabled to avoid audio duplication

  Here's what I did to try to get this working:

  -' Boxes' are buttons, click on success:

  * Success box contains audio that plays (this works)

  Success of the button execute advanced action:

  > hide all other buttons on the slide (it does not)

  > display an image of a check mark in the "checkbox" which has been clicked (does not work)

  > go to the next slide (works, audio from the success box once completed)

  Thoughts? Help! Thanks in advance!

  Hello, unknown fan

  Overlay buttons will not work, so let this idea alone.

  I really want to finish this blog post on audio and widgets. Just an idea and will try to be at the time where I found the time to try something. Why don't you attach audio to an initially invisible object that you show with the same advanced action? This object can be a shape with no stroke and a fill alpha of 0% so that it is invisible to the user. You will have time before the sound can play completely before going to the next slide.

  Lilybiri

• Hand cursor on the 'Next' button and text caption error reversal

  I have a template that I have to respect. It has buttons back and forward with a stationary state.

  I need an on-screen text entry field to simulate the text before the user in a form field.

  If you click on the next button and the field is empty or incomplete, I want an error message to the pop-up window. If the text box is filled correctly the next button moves to the next slide.

  Unfortunately, I need BOTH the hover state and hand the cursor on the next button.

  
  

  Ive tried a few scenarios and here is an example of one:

  -Add a text entry and remove text entry button

  -Add the text caption called errorMessage

  -create the variable called nextButtonIncrement
  

  -create a conditional action called checkTextCaption to run at the entrance to the screen

  -button next increment of 1 when you click

  -action checks to see if the button is a literal 1 or more, and if a legend of appropriate literal text (i.e. text).

  -If true, go to the next slide

  -If false to see the error message

  
  

  The problem with the above is that the error message appears when you enter the slide. I just want that it is displayed when the user clicks Next AND the legend of text entry doesn't have a MESSAGE in it. Im trying an AND OR a conditional action, but I am, I was wondering if anyone knows if I'm wasting my time or not.

  Looks like you're on the right track, but you have debugging in the details.

  Your back and next buttons must be advanced a conditional Action running that first checks the current value of the variable associated with ETB to check that it is not empty before performing their assigned back or other action.

  Each TEB inserted into a default Captivate project will also be a user created variable that has the same name as the name of the ETB (let's say for now it is called var_TEB).  As soon as you start typing the text in the TEB, the associated variable is assigned to have the same value (combination of keys for typing).

  Now if you want conditional action to ensure that the BER has a value before you move to the next or previous slide, then you must also create a user variable and NOT add a default value.  You will use this empty variable (we'll call it var_NULL) in your condition of conditional action.

  If your condition will be errorMessage SHOW something ELSE looks like IF var_TEB is not equal to var_NULL then go to the next slide (or previous page depending on whether it is the button Next or Back you use).  (Make sure you have the errorMessage value variable is NOT visible in the output, otherwise it will be visible as soon as your timeline starts.)

  If the condition is to ensure that the variable associated with ETB is not empty before running the jump to slip, it will SHOW you the legend of hidden error message.

• How can I control the duration of the display of a text caption?

  I have five buttons on the screen. I want to do this: click on the button, a corresponding text caption appears and remains for 5 seconds, or until the click on the next button.

  Can someone tell me how to achieve this?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Tried it, seems to work:

  • create a v_start user variable that will store the number of the first image
  • create an advanced action Start, which will be triggered upon entering the slide, with two instructions:
    • Affect of v_start with rdinfoCurrentFrame
    • Continue
      
  • create captions 5 text and make them invisible, I scored the TC_One, TC_Two, TC_Three, TC_Four, TC_Five; they must start over from the beginning of the slide and timed for 5secs
    
  • create 5 buttons, each of them will trigger a tip action
  • to create advanced actions one, two... Five to be triggered by buttons, with these statements (here One action example):
    • See the TC_One
    • Hide TC_Two
    • Hide TC_Three
    • Hide TC_Four
    • Hide TC_Five
    • Affect of rdcmndGotoFrame with v_start This will send the playback head to the first image, and the text caption will show 5 seconds
    • Continue

  Lilybiri
  

• Hide advanced action does not work after that triggered the effect

  I have a pretty simple step action that does the following:

  Hide banner

  Apply motion effect to 3 SmartShape from right to left

  Cache: SmartShape3

  
  SmartShape 3 is essentially half a rectangle rounded, which acts as a banner with text. At the beginning of the slide, it is hidden and sitting almost out of the scene. When you click a button, it does the following:

  See the banner

  Show: SmartShape3

  Applies the effect of movement from left to right to SmartShape

  This gives the illusion that it slides in from the left. The reason why I had it sat a little on the scene at the beginning, is that the effect is slow, so this makes it speed up as it has less distance to travel.

  The idea is the action above in blue is triggered and the banner slide from the left on the stage. Another button is pressed and the Red action is triggered sliding off the stage. But once the motion effect has been run, it does not seem to hide, leave the end of the rounded rectangle visible on the stage.

  I tried to adjust the break lines in the buttons that trigger these actions further pushing them to the bottom of the timeline, but it has no effect. I actually expected to start the path and then hide the shape so fast, that you wouldn't see in fact a large part of the effect as when stocks advanced spear they are super fast.

  Am I missing something or is this just a limitation with effects using advanced Actions?

  You have a misunderstanding about the actions. All orders in a fast action are executed in sequence, but immediately. The effects also have a duration, you don't say how long you have applied.  Can you post a screenshot of the timeline? Have you checked the length of the path, is it enough? You do this using the same temporal effects. BTW, I often apply such an effect using micronavigation instead of applying it. In my last blog, you can see an example:

  More in a... hyperlink - drop-down Menu - Captivate blog

• Need help for the button to trigger on the text caption effect

  Hello world

  I work in

  

  on a Mac (chart below)

  

  I'm very new to Captivate (only my second week), but am familiar in other Adobe programs. I'm trying to get a dynamic object that I made in a button to trigger an effect on a text caption. I scrolled the forums here and tried various things of the advanced actions for just using the drop down menus in the property inspector and nothing that I tried gives me the result I want.

  Here is a screenshot of what I'm working with.

  

  What I want to do is for the arrows for the buttons (and they are currently). When the slide appears first I don't want that image and the arrows visible. So when the user clicks on the arrow, I want the effect I chose (spiral) that will be triggered with the corresponding text.

  Looks like my property for each caption Inspector (the names are different for each)

  

  And I also tried to write a few advanced Actions that follow as well as tutorials that I found online, and nothing gives me what I want.

  When I preview the slide I can see everything on entry and then when I click the button to apply the effect. I rechecked the advanced actions and usually when I try these nothing happens at all.

  Is - it there anyway that I can get that works this way, I'm wanting. It seems that it should be simple and I'm right on it.

  The shape of buttons are all pause at this moment, it's OK.

  I just tried it out and see what you mean. The text is there from the beginning, and that shouldn't be the case. you expect it not to appear when the button is clicked. I have never used this spiral effect myself, but since you have no control over it, I mean you can't see where starts the effect at all, there is no visible path you have with the other effects of the entry. Either, you need to create a custom, effect whose path begins with text outside the scene, or a combination of an Alpha to + a standard entrance effect.

  Tried the first one with a simple left to a straight path. I edited the paths so that they all start at the same position horizontal and end at the same horizontal position. So happy with the leaders and Guides that we finally got in Captivate, they are very useful for this type of design:

  

  It's the chronology:

  

• Captivate 6 - Advanced action does not work in the project?

  Hello

  I use 6 Captivate. In my project I have a common slide2 which is called when clicking on the two different buttons (C1 and C2). Slide 2 contains several objects, saying Text1, text 2, 1 button, and Button2.

  Slide 5 I have a C1, I defined the on success action: execute advanced actions

  Script: If CPIntoCurrent Slide is equal to 5

  Action:

  Go to slide 2

  See the Text1

  See the Button1

  Hide Text2

  See the Button2

  Similar action has been set to C2 (slide 8) redirecting to slide 2 showing the Text2 and Button2, hiding other objects.

  These scripts where works fine, until I installed a patch on the adobe site. The patch was intended to display the video correctly in the PDF when selected the option display the table of contents.

  But unfortunately he's completely unbalanced the script of existing projects. I also tried to uninstall completely and fresh install Adobe Captivate, but not luck .

  Help, please.

  @Rod and with a concern for users of later versions (I'm not sure 6, this version did more) 6.

  It is perfectly possible to show/hide objects of an 'Advanced' action (not with a simple gesture) that is running on another slide of the slide corresponding to the object. I am certain about it for versions 7 and 8. I have not been much about 6 blogging and was bit sloppy on this release to keep track of all the changes. If you don't believe me (what happens in these forums), CP8 users take a look at the example file Cloudair included with this release: the action advanced in the first slide shows/hides objects anywhere in the file based on the information of the new cpInfoGeoLocation of system variables.

  Rod, I see you post this comment often, I just wanted to add these details. As I explained that I don't know when this change occurred (6.1 is my suspicion, but cannot test). In CP5 you could hide objects that have been timed for the rest of the project on a slide different than its original location. Since 5.5, you might also show this type of object.

  Lieve