Can I add a conditional and a non-conditional action together in one Advanced Action to ensure one thing is always done without having to make it happen in each condition?
With the new conditional tab option in 2017/2019 Adobe Captivate am I able to have both a standard AND a conditional action together in one advanced action? For instance. If when a user clicks a button I want a variable to be changed every time, but if another variable is marked as 1 I want to do an additional action without having to set the action I want done every time in each possible condition. Just wondering if its possible.
Michael, I’ve seen you offering assistance in the Discussion section frequently. It’s really encouraging to see a new face answering questions. Some days it feels like Lieve Weymeis and I are the only ones (more her than me). Please stay engaged. The Adobe eLearning community needs more fellow Captivate users to help other Captivate users out.
Thank you both for chiming in. I always thought that you could have an either/or (I started with Captivate 5) and I never fully understood the combining of the panels. I think it makes sense now and I am going to have to start playing with this as it adds powerful complexity to actions! Thank you.
Maybe you should have posted questions 10 years ago? I have been teaching combinations of standard and conditional actions since CP5…
Another feature that you may ignore are shared actions, which appeared with Captivate7 and were improved with Captivate8.
Haha. Thanks, Lieve I guess I should have. I haven’t ignored shared actions! Those are a serious timesaver. I appreciate your help.
You’re welcome, and success with the newly found functionalities. I offer some free shared actions on my blog….
It has always been possible to combine standard and conditional actions, but since the refurbished Advanced Actions dialog box it has become much easier. Maybe have a look at a full exploration of that dialog box in this blog:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/advanced-actions-dialog-box-in-captivate-2017
Explore my blog for multiple examples since Captivate 6 of combining standard and conditional actions. The new While conditional decision type was added with CP2017.
You will notice that there are tabs in advanced actions. These are known as decisions. You can write different sets of advanced actions within the same advanced action.
For example, you could have on the first decision tab a series of actions that run when a learner clicks a button to perform all the steps needed for one of the buttons in a click to reveal. On the next decision tab can be a conditional action that checks if the variables associated with that same click to reveal have been pressed. If so the conditional action will show the Next button to the user.
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