Greetings eLearning Community!

My name is Rollin and I an an instructional designer and technologist. I have used Captivate on and off since Macromedia RoboDemo 4.  I tried to get back into using Captivate with version 2017 a few years ago, using my personal account and the trail version to relearn Captivate. I started contributing on the eLearning site earning a few more free months of Captivate by making my way to “Master” status, but I was using an older computer that while meeting the minimum requirements, had a real hard time running Captivate, so I once again put Captivate on the shelf for another year and a half.

When I changed jobs and was able to add Adobe Creative Cloud and captivate to my budget. This time I was going to make sure that I made Captivate a tool I would use regularly to create online interactions that could be used in online courses and for faculty and staff training. I signed up for the Captivate Specialist course (which I took on October 2, 2019 and passed), and started attending every available Webinar I could fit into my schedule, and started doing the exercises assigned for the Specialist course and from the Mastering Captivate 2019 book, now I am ready to make my contribution to the eLearning site by regularly posting Blogs, articles, discussions, and answering forum questions.  My goal is to be a regular, and trusted, contributor to the site like Pooja and Paul, hopefully over time, my voice, tone, and writing style will be helpful to others looking for eLearning advise.

Today I want to talk about Advanced Actions in Captivate 2019. Advanced Actions are executable code that are executed by the Web browser (because I am concentrating on Captivate 2019, the Advanced Action code will most likely be JavaScript, since Flash is being phased out) on your computer or mobile device. There are three types of Advanced Actions in captivate:

1. Standard Actions: Simple procedures that are executed the same way each tie they are run.
2. Conditional Actions: Procedures that are a little more complex because they determine if a condition is true or false, then perform accordingly. Because actions are done based on the conditions met, or not met, they may perform differently each time they are executed, based on the available conditions.
3. Shared Actions: Actions that can be reused in a given project, or shared in other projects.

Advanced actions will be used for creating procedures for items like buttons. An example of a standard action would be like assigning a button to perform a singular event like mute sound. While an example of a conditional action would be creating a button that can toggle sound on and off.