I am having a trouble with displaying a next button using advanced actions. This is what I have set up and I can’t figure out why it is not working. Any help would be great
4 Slides
Slide 1 has 3 buttons which direct to slide 2, 3, and 4 respectively. Once slides 2,3, and 4 have been visited I want a 4th hidden button to display on slide 2 which would direct learners past slides 2,3, and 4 to continue the training.
I am using 3 variables in my advanced actions:
- Slide 2 visits
- Slide 3 visits
- Slide 4 visits
I have advanced actions set up on slides 2, 3, and 4 that say the following
**Slide 2 example**
IF
Slide 3 visits ≥ 1
AND
Slide 4 visits ≥ 1
THEN
Display advancing button on Slide 1
ELSE
Increment Slide 2 visits by 1
The advanced actions on Slide 3, and 4 are similar, but check against the opposite slides and increment their own slides.
Shouldn’t this cause my hidden button to appear?
Note that my hidden button is not alone. It is grouped with a smart shape and when I say I want the hidden button to display I am actually trying to get the entire group to display.
**UPDATE**
I got my slides working the way I wanted, but I still am curious as to why Captivate didn’t do what I wanted before. Previously, I ran the advanced action to add to my variables upon entering slides 2,3, and 4. I changed the setup so that the advanced action was executed using a click box which covered the entire slide on slides 2, 3, and 4 and now it works perfectly.
You ask exactly the same as I did. If the OP is working with CP2017 (not mentioned), the explanation of where to find the Preview button is in this blog post: http://blog.lilybiri.com/advanced-actions-dialog-box-in-captivate-2017
I just published a blog post, where I explain in detail how to use tracking variables in a setting where the Next button has to be displayed after all buttons have been clicked.
We cannot see which action takes care of incrementing the variables v_visit. The action which you described is triggered by the On Enter event of a dashboard slide, but where does the changes in variables happen?
Can you “screen capture” your advanced actions and also show where the advanced actions are being applied (on slide enter? on slide exit?)
I’d be inclined to put the “hide/show” button logic on the slide that actually has the button you want to “hide/show” rather than on the other slides.
If you can post some screen captures, I can try to help.
Sorry but that is not an advanced action. Please insert the Preview of the advanced or shared actions used on the buttons. I suspect you have a logical or a timeline problem. It is certainly not necessary to add an extra click box. This would not even be possible for a responsive project with Fluid Boxes, click boxes are not allowed there.