May 24, 2011
Adding Multiple Click-based Animations on a Screen with Adobe Captivate 5
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May 24, 2011
Adding Multiple Click-based Animations on a Screen with Adobe Captivate 5
Pooja works as a Senior Director of Digital Learning at Icertis. She has created several award-winning eLearning courses and authored books and video courses on eLearning tools and technologies. In her previous roles, she worked as a principal eLearning evangelist at Adobe and chief learning geek at a start-up. Pooja is CPTD, and COTP certified. She holds a master’s degree in education & economics and a doctorate in educational technology.
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You are creating a simulation-based course and you need to demonstrate a couple of related workflows which include just about six to eight steps each. You are not convinced to create separate screens for such small demonstrations. So, what should you do?

Looks like you need a screen where you can include all these simulations which play on-demand, one at a time. Let’s learn how to create such a screen.

Here’s an example for you… There is one common animation area and five different buttons that trigger the animation. Notice that the animation plays from the starting frame every time you click the related button.

And here’s how you can create such a screen:

Let me know if you found this post useful or have any questions by leaving a comment on this post.

Happy Captivating! 🙂

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2013-05-26 07:48:00
2013-05-26 07:48:00

Thank you for this video, helped me out a lot. The only thing I cant seem to get working is getting my videos to reset themselves after clicking another button.

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2011-12-11 00:00:30
2011-12-11 00:00:30

[…] Here are some demonstrations on how to create a screen with rollover audio, click-reveal text, click-display animation, tabs, and a […]

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2011-11-18 20:10:14
2011-11-18 20:10:14

[…] Click-based animations screen […]

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2011-08-11 12:07:38
2011-08-11 12:07:38

[…] create interactive screens with a pop-up, click-reveal text, rollover text, rollover audio, tabs, click-display animation, etc. But the fact that the learner might miss out on some hidden content is always our cause of […]

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2011-07-14 14:07:00
2011-07-14 14:07:00

Great but I cant hear any sound

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2011-06-22 14:24:00
2011-06-22 14:24:00

Very nice. But I cant hear any audio or text to speech?

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2012-01-09 18:21:00
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There’s no audio added to the screen and demonstration.

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2011-06-08 15:45:00
2011-06-08 15:45:00

great tutorial, this script also work with text or images?

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2012-01-09 18:20:00
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Yes, it does.

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2011-06-05 19:34:27
2011-06-05 19:34:27

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing this

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2011-05-28 01:25:09
2011-05-28 01:25:09

Excellent idea, will put it into practice immediately
Thanks

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2011-05-31 20:31:03
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Thanks Roy 🙂

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2011-05-27 23:07:05
2011-05-27 23:07:05

this was very helpful…did take me a minutes to figure out you probably first had to create all 5 animations in separate captivate files and publish…is that what you did?

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2011-05-31 20:30:29
2011-05-31 20:30:29
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Yes, that’s exactly what I did! 🙂

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2011-05-24 15:20:17
2011-05-24 15:20:17

Hi Pooja, your advanced actions will only be functional if everything is indeed on slide 1. To make this action more versatile, to be able to use it on any slide, not only the first one, you could replace the Jump to Slide 1 statement by this:
Assign cpCmndGotoSlide with rdinfoCurrentSlide

This would be functional on any slide.

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2011-05-24 15:28:03
2011-05-24 15:28:03
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Thanks Lieve 🙂

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