In this video tutorial, I show you how you can perform mathematical calculations inside your Adobe Captivate advanced actions using the expression command.
A colleague of mine asked about creating an advanced action that would calculate a person’s birthday if they were turning 21 today.
Can you make a calculation in Captivate such as a calculator that could calculate the time we all spend in meetings. Average salary per participants, amount of participants and the amount of time they spend in meetings (hours/minutes).
You would need to write an advanced action that uses the Expression command a number of times. For example, if you wanted to calculate the average age of five people who you typed in their ages on a previous slide you could write an advanced action like the following…
Expression _total_age = Text_Entry_Box_1 + Text_Entry_Box_2
Expression _total_age = _total_age + Text_Entry_Box_3
Expression _total_age = _total_age + Text_Entry_Box_4
Expression _total_age = _total_age + Text_Entry_Box_5
Expression _averagage_age = _total_age / 5
Here is a more detailed explanation: https://youtu.be/UMaqQGtiqls
Very nice lesson Paul. It really launches the imagination on a few other dynamic expressions. Thanks Paul.
Yeah, I liked this one as well. A nice simple solution in search of a problem 😉
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