Variables and Advance Actions to Toggle a Button State and Show/Hide an Object
Hi y’all,
So I was looking through youtube for tutorial videos on Adobe Captivate, and I came across this very helpful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLDdlBFY84c
It teaches you how to work with Variables and Advance Actions to Toggle a Button State and Show/Hide an Object, and I thought it might be nice to share.
I went ahead and recreated this “toggle on and off” interaction using these following steps:
Variable:
Created a variable (on and off) under project -> variable with the value of 1 (True).
Advance Action:
Created an advance action with conditions (If/else) under project -> Advance Actions.
Here is the zip file/result of this mini project: 
Hope you guys are able to benefit from this, and are able to apply this to some of your works!
Best,
ZQ
Thank you for this post. I’ve been working on a project where users can hover over a word and see how that word can be used in a learning objective with definition, example etc. Since I want to publish via HTML 5, I realized that I couldn’t use the built in tools and instead had to use advanced actions. I’ve also found this tutorial helpful from Linked in Learning: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/captivate-8-mobile-and-responsive-design/using-advanced-actions-to-replace-rollover-images
Lynn, maybe you missed this post:
Great job and thanks for posting. It’s good to see the practical application of lessons learned. I look forward to your next contribution.
Thanks for mentioning the inspiration source of your video, which is very rare! Congrats.
I know that YouTube is considered now the ‘bible’ or the ‘koran’ of learning, findi this very worrying, considering the total lack of curation on that medium.
I have several blog posts about Toggle buttons, which are interesting to see the evolution of possible workflows. At this moment I mostly use multistate objects, for toggle buttons and show/hide objects. I will post a comparison of the different workflows later on, with its advantages.
Just some tips:
Be careful with labeling, you may ignore that labels have to be unique. Most YouTube videos are very sloppy. There are many ways to recognize a name as being a variable. System variables start with ‘cp’, user variables in all my blogs and interactive vdieos/movies will start with ‘v_’, other epxerts use ‘var’ as first characters for variable names.
The user variable you created is a Boolean. It may be confusing for newbies that you write ‘valyue is True’ but show a value of 1.
Problem with a toggle button using a custom state to show the alternative is that the other InBuilt states (Rollover and Down) cannot be toggled. It would be a good idea to add a screenshot of your Object State panel, especially for the Button. I see that you simply deleted those InBuilt states.
Will post some links in a separate comment, to avoid waiting time for this comment due to moderation. You’ll see that I prefer using shared actions, because that action can be used not only for hide/show toggle buttons but also for CC on/off, Audio on/off. etc…
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