Captivate version history
Captivate version used when content was published
Does anyone know of a way to determine what specific Captivate version (for example 11.5.1.499 not just Captivate 2019) was used at the time content was published? Is there anything in the extracted .zip files that would point to a specific version?
Also, is there any documentation that lists the release history including hot fixes?
Thanks in advance!
-Trina
Where you find it varies. I have Captivate generated output folders from different versions. Look for a “Project” file at the top level. Depending on the version of Captivate, it’s either PROJECT.TXT or PROJECT.JS.
Where you find it varies. I have Captivate generated output folders from different versions. Look for a “Project” file at the top level.
I’m looking at Dec 2020 generated output from our subscription, there is a PROJECT.TXT file. It’s there.
In an old output file that was generated in Captivate 6.6, I found it in PROJECT.JS.
I don’t know of a way to get the exact build (e.g. 11.5.1.499), but if you open project.text in the roots of the published course package in a text editor, you can check “generatorVersion”: almost at the very beginning of the text. Would give you “11.5.1” in our example.
You can also just run the course, bring up the browser console and query the value of the variable ‘CaptivateVersion’. Again this would give you “11.5.1” in our example.
If you happen to have the .cptx project file for the course in question, you can temporarily change the file extension to zip, open the zip archive, and then unpack and open the file ‘info.cpi’ in a text editor. Again you’ll see the version right at the beginning of the file (a few characters in). For a project created with Captivate version 11.5.1.499 you’ll get “11.5..499” here. Not sure what happened to the “1”.
Really interesting question, wished I could offer you an answer. The system variable CaptivateVersion is not an answer. I rely too much on my memory about what has been added in the different versions, or patched by minor dot releases but, with the exception of some of my blog posts, never did keep track of it in a structured way. Since I am on a subscription license, an extra problem is that I only have the two most recent versions, no way to keep the older versions installed (which was the case in the past, still have version 5.5).
I sincerely hope someone from the staff will answer your question.
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