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• Module.actions does not return a list of actions for the module. vRO 7.0.1

  It is not as if Modules.actions returns an array of actions for 7.0.1.  I can get the name and the description, but not the list of actions in the module.  If anyone has a chance to check it out in its environment it would be great.

  Hello

  Could you try with .actionDescriptions instead of .actions ?

  I don't know if the problem is in the generated documentation or source code; need to continue the investigation.

• 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

• Captivate 4 - Advanced - Actions buttons Pause/Play

  HI - so I created a 2 buttons - a pause and play - so my users can implement pause/play my captivate video (slide audio and real). I created my 2 variables for the buttons and I created my Advanced action. I am affect my break to "rdcmndPause", hide break, exhibit. And I'm assigning play "rdcmndResume", hide the piece, see the break. It does not work. The play/pause buttons appear and disappear as they should - but my project is not a pause or play. Any thoughts?

  I'm not very good with AS3, but try this, removed some of your code and added a little ;-) worked OK for me

  PauseButton.visible = true;

  PlayButton.visible = false;

  PlayButton.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, hidePlay);

  PauseButton.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, hidePause);

  function hidePlay (event: MouseEvent): void {}

  PauseButton.visible = true;

  PlayButton.visible = false;

  MovieClip (this.parent.parent) .rdcmndResume = 1;

  }

  function hidePause (event: MouseEvent): void {}

  PauseButton.visible = false;

  PlayButton.visible = true;

  MovieClip (this.parent.parent) .rdcmndPause = 1;

  }

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

  I'm fairly new to Captivate, but come from a flash background and I do of Captivate to do certain things, that I expected to be straightforward and a normal requirement.

  I want to create a screen with a number of interactive objects, in this case photos, it's the learner clicks on to display a text element.

  By clicking on the following image, the first piece of text is hidden and a second piece shown.

  There are 6 images/buttons which have to work in this way.

  However, I also want to determine if all the buttons have been used, as we force the user to view the entire slide before you continue.

  I can do the hide/show text and buttons, and I wrote a conditional action to check the variables for each button. However I do not know how and when to appeal to this action.

  I was hoping that in my Advanced action for each button, I could add in a call to the conditional action "record"variables", which would be very well fulfil this requirement, however this doesn't seem to be the case."

  I also animation/effects on the timeline before the images are on the meaning of screen I want to go back to the beginning of the timeline to use an event "on enter.

  I am surprised that this isn't something that people most need because while it may be frowned upon outside in the field of e-learning, disabled navigation is frankly not will disappear and working for a large corporation will be a must.

  If anyone can shed some light on this, or perhaps suggest a better approach then I'd appreciate it.

  Thank you.

  Of course, it is possible. This is the approach I explained (for previous versions):

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/template-for-reusing-script

  The models that I offered it, were invited to a lot of times and are used all over the world, which is funny

  I also have templates for CP6 and 7, but has stopped offering everything for free. And 7, you can have all the shares shared in a library that can be used as external library... just a tip: http://blog.lilybiri.com/new-features-in-captivate-7-dot-01

  Agreement on controls on effects for paths, please submit a feature request as many have already done to have the most control over the coordinate without having to change the XML file.

  It would be nice to have timed events. Jim Leichliter has a widget (only for the SWF) which allows some scripted events. The interaction of timer that can do as well, but is not very accurate because after that time there is always a lag of about 2 seconds.

  http://blog.lilybiri.com/events-and-advanced-actions tells us about the available events.

  Sorry for all these links, but advanced actions are my passion, since they appeared with 4. They are limited, all right, but I managed to convince many users to give them a try at different levels. Would love to train more users for this "point-and-click" approach that does not really need programming skills, but only a logical mind.

• Advanced Action help - the user must select all before moving on to the next slide

  I need a tip action that will require the user to select a number of option buttons containing information until the next button appears. I don't know how to write it. I want the user to be able to select each button in any order that they choose. Can someone give me a step by step process? Your help is greatly appreciated!

  What version do you use? Why radio buttons? The behavior expected normal of radio buttons is that only one can be selected, you seem to ignore what is generally accepted. As having a next button appears only after several items have been selected, this has been explained many times in this forum and have many examples in my blog. They are free, maybe not considered worth nothing...

  You need a variable associated with each item. Click on an item to trigger a conditional action advanced or shared with two decisions. First decision is simulated standard action, rotate the variable from 0 to 1, then is a real condition that will make the next visible button if all variables have the value 1.

• Click box - advanced actions--reduces the brightness of the images

  If I have a text box, using the tip on blade action that I hide, then on a click box that I want to show him - when the hidden text box reveals itself, the image fades.  Why is this?  What have set correctly?

  Thanks to anyone who can help!

  Hello

  My guess is you must consider the time where. Click boxes to suspend the project. You probably have a click box, which stops just that image fades in the display or out of sight.

  Also, you could probably avoid the problem by removing the transitions from the images.

  See you soon... Rick

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• Is there a way to set the order of the advanced actions?

  Hello.

  I try to set a peak action where an effect is applied to several objects, and then it climbs to a slide. Is it possible to define the action to make the jump from slide happen after effects?

  Here is a screenshot of the demo of what I'm looking for:

  

  I want each box of click to zoom out until the slide jump to another slide and the other 3 characters.

  I use 7 Captivate.

  Thank you.

  I have created an example, but used CP8, there will be a small difference for you in CP7. Those are the steps:

  • Create a variable user corresponding to each image that will follow if that one is clicked, a Boolean value with the default value of 0, branded the v_one, v_two... v_four
  • as I suspect you return to this slide, you need to reset all Boolean values enter; can be done with a tip action that affects 1 to each of the variables and don't forget the Continue statement as well
  • Make sure that the continue button has no suspension, and that the boxes to click on a break at 1 second before the end of the slide (1 second is the default duration of change of scale 0, what is the zoom effect)
  • I created a joint action for the areas of click, but since you can't define a variable as a parameter, you may use duplicates of the advanced actions:
    • Assign the v_one with 1
    • Apply the effect Image... Balance for x and Y, the value 0
    • Apply the effect Image... Balance for x and Y, the value 0
    • Apply the effect Image... Balance for x and Y, the value 0
    • Continue
  • Then created a conditional advanced action on the exit of the slide, with many decisions that you have variables, checks each variable and jump on this slide

• Advanced Scripts of Action does not not in the advanced Actions window

  I have no idea how or why it happened, but on some scripts that I applied to some buttons, when I click on the folder icon to open the script in the advance action window, the script does not load. It shows just blank like this (screenshot below). If I try to select it from the dropdown of existing shares, it does not load. If I try to make a new script again, it will work initially, but the same thing happens if I try to open it again. No idea how to solve this problem?

  

  It looks like the corruption of the file. You're careful with naming of decisions and measures? Never use a name that has already been used for another object.

  If you copy an interactive object in a new project, the action in the annex is copied (at least if you're on CP8 or 9).  Normally slides copy and paste in a new project could help, only bit worried on the copy with the actions.

  Have you already restarted Captivate and maybe your system as well? Worth a try.

• The Template Variables and advanced actions

  I created a template to 8 Captivate, which includes several variables user and advanced actions (the model was created with Captivate 7.)

  When I create a new project from the template, Captivate automatically creates duplicates of all the variables user and advanced actions changing the names slightly (add numbers at the end). The thing is now I have twice as many actions and variables, and Captivate does not allow me to delete the shares referenced by the model. How to avoid this?

  Is it possible to return to the original set of variables user and actions on my project? Thank you.

  The upgrade often cause this kind or problems. Normally, you should be able to easily remove CP8 variables, but of course, I do not avoid upgrade especially when the characteristics have changed as is now done with stocks shared in CP8. I agree that it would be easier if the upgrade still worked smoothly, but learned after so many years with the software that it is rarely the case.

  The case you describe is perfectly suited for common actions, I even used it as an example in an online seminar I did (always for CP7) and definitely want to show it again if I ever get the chance to make another or provide training. Creating a library with shared actions that you can use over and over again now is no longer a daydream. No need for a model reuse advanced actions.

  Lilybiri

• Is it possible to use advanced actions to set the value of the question?

  Hi - I am trying to develop a course of Captivate 4 and wish I could on slide enter advanced use of actions to check the value of a user variable, and if the variable is equal to x then set the value of the question (correct) 1. Is there a system variable, that I can use to define?

  This course is to download a package to an LMS (Moodle) SCORM.

  Ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Unfortunately, Captivate is not currently a way to manipulate SCORM score via advanced Actions and the user or System Variables.

  So that you could have OnSlideEnter check and set the value of a variable, you don't have a way to use this information to force sending a question slide.

• Advanced actions - trying to show a text caption

  I have a slide with 5 legends from intelligent forms, and 5 click boxes. All 5 active forms are hidden. I have 5 variables, which are set to zero. When a click box is clicked, the corresponding chip shows form and the value of the first variable user is set to one. When another click, click on the corresponding box shape smart shows and the following user variable is set to 1. Each area of the click is configured in a similar way. I created 5 Advanced actions, and the action of success for each of the boxes click use one of 5 Advanced actions. The action for each click box looks something like this (I use generic names for this example):

  IF variable1 is equal to 0

  ACTIONS

  See the textCaption1

  Assign variable1 with 1

  Reading Audio sound.wav

  Continue

  It works very well and the corresponding smart forms are evidence as it should when each of the boxes to click is clicked on.

  But I have a comment text caption additional I want to show after all 5 intelligent forms are showing. I tried implementing a tip action that looks like this:

  IF

  Variable1 is equal to 1 AND

  variable2 is equal to 1 AND

  Variable3 is equal to 1 AND

  variable4 is equal to 1 AND

  variable5 is equal to 1

  ACTIONS

  See the feedbackTextCaption

  But even once all the boxes click user clicked (which must define each of the 5 variables to 1), the legend of notes text is not displayed.

  Can anyone help with a suggestion?

  @Sreekanth, which is not the right approach, because a user can click 5 times on the same box of click and see the final text caption. Only when you turn off an already clicked interactive object that can be used. Jay was right to choose five different variables.

  @Jay how you trigger this last conditional action? In which cases do you use? You explain that the first described action is triggered by the click box, but not what triggers the conditional action.

  I suspect that you will have to combine the two actions and assign them to each click box. This means a conditional action with two decisions:

  'Always' first decision needs the condition "If 1 is equal to 1", to create a simulated standard and must action be the text caption, set the variable to 1 and play the audio. I don't know why you added "continue?" If the boxes to click on break at the same time, do not add continue, let the playhead in the same place.

  Second decision "Checker" is conditional action you've written, check the values of the 5 variables, and if they all have the value 1 for display text in comments.

• Advanced actions in CP6 combination

  It seems so simple, that I'm almost embarrassed to post.

  (1) is it possible to use [if, else if, elseif, else] structure in conditional actions?

  (2) is it possible to call several advances in stocks of a trigger (eg. entering a slide)?

  (3) is it possible for a tip action call advanced further action?

  What I'm trying to accomplish:

  At the end of the quiz, display a rating grid (several legends of text) and automatically highlight the part of the scale that corresponds to the way in which the user has made. Assume that the user has marked a 3.  The scale can have 3 Legends: caption1 = [0-2: below average], caption2 = [3-4: average], caption3 = [5-6: above average].  Users see the same 3 legends, but the appropriate legend should be highlighted (I set its Alpha to 100% and the other legends at 50%).

  What I tried:

  (1) to build a conditional action: If score > 4 then highlight caption3, elseif score > 3 then highlight caption2, otherwise select caption1. Unfortunately I do not see how to use the elseif construction.

  (2) create 3 separate actions advanced conditional and call each of them entering a slide: (A) if there are 5 < = score < = 6, then highlight caption3 only. (B) if 3 < = score < = 4, then highlight caption2 only. (C) If 0 < = score < = 2, then highlight caption1 only.  Unfortunately I can not understand how to call all advanced actions when the user enters the slides

  (3) create an advanced standard action that will call the above 3 conditional actions in order. Unfortunately I don't see a way to call advanced actions of in a tip action.

  The goal seems so simple, but I am at a loss on how to do it. Help please.

  Hello

  The workflow in the conditional shares advanced is a bit different from normal programming languages. You have the possibility to create and/or conditions and have a series of decisions (the buttons without a title at the top) with different conditions in each decision. But be aware that Captivate will always evaluate all decisions, in order. So I recommend especially for complicated situations create a flowchart with the logic before you create the action.

  No, you can use only a single trigger action. But it is possible to combine in a single conditional action. To mimic a standard action, you use a condition which is always filled as "If 1 is equal to 1"

  It is not possible to call a tip for any other action action, no subroutines. There is also no loops, without tables.

  I have many examples on my blog for advanced actions use cases: http://blog.lilybiri.com

  Your example is quite easy:

  Decision 1 "Excellent".

  IF cpQuizInfoPointsscored is greater than or equal to 5

  Apply the effect...      to the proper shape

  Decision 2 "average."

  IF cpQuizInfoPointsscored is greater than or equal to 3 AND

  cpQuizInfoPointsscored is less than 5

  Apply the effect...      to the proper shape

  Decision 3 "Low".

  IF cpQuizInfoPointsscored is less than 3

  Apply the effect...      to the proper shape

• How can you raise more than 1 Advanced action?

  I wonder if someone can answer a question very fast for me that I am struggling with at the moment
  I have 6 batteries of 16 images. I have the user select the name of the image that they want to show in each stack, and then I have a tip action that runs to display only the image that they have chosen. Currently I have 6 actions, one for each stack of images.
  What I have to do is to run every 6 Advanced actions when the user enters a page so that they see only the 6 images they have chosen on the previous slide. My problem is that I can't just run an advanced action upon entry of the slide (or a button or something else). Is it possible to combine advanced actions or to run more than one action from a single command? Or that requires a different approach?
  Thanks in advance for your help.
  James

  Hello James,.

  I'm a teacher also and was "seduced" by Captivate when I discovered its possibilities.

  Your situation is a bit clearer now, though... will have a few more questions later.

  First question: you can change the schedule for all the images "for the rest of the project. Then the image chosen on the first slide will be made visible by your advanced actions and will appear on the second slide etc. You're lucky, because in Captivate 5, it is possible to hide objects on another slide then where they sit really (hope you understand). So, if you don't need the images more, e.g. the third slide, you can create a tip on this third slide action to hide all of the images. It will be a very long standard advanced action, because you'll have to hide all of the images. So far you don't really store image that was selected on the first slide.

  Second question: to have the teacher to choose the images. This would mean that the SWF published for students is not the slide with the batteries? It is here that the situation is not yet clear to me. You could create 6 user variables, a set to be given by the teacher:

  • v_stack1 could get a value between 1 and 16 (you could also choose the name of the image, but he needs more typing and typo-risk) and this value would be chosen by the teacher
  • similar you will have values for v_stack2... v_stack6
  • you change the decisions in your advanced actions Image1 IF is equal to v_stack1
  • in this case, you will not have a second slide, but could trigger the tip action at the entrance to the first slide.

  You will need to tell the teacher how to change variables, which must be done in the Captivate file. But maybe this isn't the way you want to go? You want it to be possible for teachers who do not have access to Captivate? Next, you need to create text input areas (or a drop-down list if necessary) to fill in the variables. But the published file will remain the same for students, you see the problem? It takes more time to think about it, if you try to clarify or confiim my intuition?

  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