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In this video tutorial, I show you how you can replace dozens of conditional advanced actions by creating a shared action which can be reused multiple times.
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Hi Paul,
Great video. With respect to Lieve, I think the title makes sense and is not confusing. This is a time saver in how people are developing because it sets up a workflow that you prove is fast and logical.
Eveyone has their own development process and I think it’s for the viewers who are not also trainers/presenters in the same small professional network to decide if this is useful for them.
Again, good job. And thanks for the work.
My comment was about the misleading title. I do tthe same for ‘Create a respnsive project in 10 minutes’.
It is our duty when sharing content to give honest information, and misleading titles are not part of that. It is also deprecation of the real advantages of shared actions over advanced actions. In all my projects my first reflection is; will I use a shared or an advanced action in this situation. That is not due to tiem saving because in90% of the cases shared actions take more time.
Do not give an interpreation to my comment that was not there.
I’m not sure why Lieve is belabouring the point. It does not take a PhD to see that it takes less time to set the parameters of my shared action on the remaining slides than it would to recreate the three-decision-conditional-action for each slide.
Knowing how Lieve feels about me personally and professionally, I suspect her criticism is more about trying to discredit me than anything else. I’ll ask anyone who sees this post to view the video with an open mind and judge it for yourself.
I’ve certainly saved time using Shared Actions.
I know I have. Thanks, Todd.
Disagree with the title: you don’t save time with shared actions, but there are a lot of other advantages over advanced actions: file size, less chance for corruption, available in the Library, easy transfer to other projects etc. I am the first defender of Shared actions, look at the tons of movies, articles, showcases which I published everywhere.
Understanding how to design a useful shared action is something you learn only by lot of exploring and testing.
Agree with all your points. I chose “Save time…” because in this case the shared action could be applied to literally hundreds of slides as opposed to writing hundreds of similar but unique conditional actions over and over again.
Sorry…… one disadvantage of a shared action over advanced actions is that you can NEVER apply them to a bunch of slides, but need to apply to each slide individually even if the shared action has NO parameters.
You are confusing users with such a title, be careful. Developing a flexible shared action needs a totally different mindset and preparation which I don’t see in this video at all. Do not create expectations which can not be fulfilled, happens too much with Captivate tutorials.
I use a dedicated Library with shared actions which I use over and over again in many courses. You need to develop only once, but the attriibution of a shared action takes more time, and editing a shared action needs a workfaround which alo takes more time than for an advanced action.
I stand by my video. The conditional action that the shared action is based on includes three decisions which took a minute to write. Once the shared action was created it literally took seconds to apply it to the objects of the remaining objects on each slide.
At the end of each of my videos I preview the project to demonstrate to my viewers that each solution works for the scenario covered in the video. It’s up to each viewer to decide if this solution works for his or her needs and how they will apply it to their own situation.
I’m sure your development process works well for you. You can be critical of my development process all you like. It works for me and I’m not interested in publicly debating it with you.
I had no idea shared actions would create such debate. I have not used them myself so far, but it is something I have been reading up on and watching some videos of as well.
The comments about having your own development style is very true. I don’t think there is just one way to do things. You have to make it your own and create the way you can. The more I learn the more I try different things.
Everyone has their way, but we can all improve and learn something from each other. Debate on my friends.
