I record Adobe Captivate tutorials on procedures I use myself. One such topic that I haven’t covered before now is shared actions. I simply haven’t had a reason to use them in my everyday work. I would use “advanced actions” for the navigation controls I would put at the beginning of my course and display for the rest of the project. One problem is that you can’t have items displayed for rest of project and contained in a non-static fluid boxes. I solve this problem using a shared action in this video tutorial.
The ‘change state of’ selection is greyed out. (4:09 of your video). How can I select this option?
I use that same advanced action structure for my Play/Pause toggle button, Paul. However, I do not make the buttons display for rest of project. I found that you can no longer control the tab order of that button (or any button that you set for rest of project) past the initial slide it originates. I need a consistent tab order for accessibility. Hence, I make individual play/pause toggle buttons for my slides as well as separate advanced actions. Additionally, you can add different accessibility text to your button states. But screen readers will not read the new accessibility text unless you program javascript to refocus the keyboard cursor on the button so that screen readers can read out the changed accessibility text to users.
I didn’t display anything in this tutorial for rest of project. In this case, each slide has its own set of controls and the shared action is repeated on each version of those controls.