Hi, I’m totally new to Captivate, forgive the dumb question please. Spend hours on google trying to find answers or tutorials without success. I’m trying to find a way to have a next button on my slides that shows multi state object state by state and then, after the last state, plays the next slide. I’m trying to set advanced actions for days but can’t manage to figure it out. Thanks for your help 🙂 Pierre
Pierre, I decided to turn this into a personal project because I’m intrigued by the idea of a simplified click to reveal. Here is my solution: https://youtu.be/NCB_IJB6z0g
I would love to know what your thinking around this was. I see it being beneficial for mobile where you might not want a whole bunch of extra buttons on your user interface. One thing I would add if the learner could return to this slide is an on enter action that resets my counter so they can go through it again.
Thanks Paul, that’s exactly what I was looking for. The idea was to save on number of slides, and save on number of buttons as well. Instead of having a “next state” button and a “next slide” button, or as many slides as object states. Plus this way I’m sure the user is seeing all states of my object before going to the next slide. Thanks again for you help this is really appreciated!
Pierre
I thought so.
Adobe Captivate is coming with its own player and this player has all buttons that you need. You can change your player’s look from preferences of it. On the other hand, of course, you can create your own player for your course. However, I mostly use Adobe Captivate’s own player with minimum design changes.
On the other hand, there is a feature that helps you to hide or show your player on the active slide. Maybe you hide the player. Need to see.
Here is how I would do this.
Create your multi-state object. For my example, I will say the object contains four states, an initial state and three more. Create a user variable with the purpose of keeping track of which state you are on. I called my variable Counter. I set the initial value for the variable to have a value of 1. For the “Continue” button write the following advanced action.
IF
Counter is less than 4
Go To Next State SmartShape_1
Increment Counter by 1
ELSE
Go to Next Slide
You may wish to have an on enter advanced action that resets the value of your variable back to 1 if there is the possibility of learners returning to this slide.
All with one button? Strange. Need more information about the time needed to ‘view’ each state, and the number of states as well. If you give me those tow details, will set up the advanced action. I just hope you are on a recent version of Captivate. Because you’ll need both the Go to Next State, a While loop and the Delay Next Actions by command. Maybe can create a shared action…
Works perfectly, if you wanted indeed that button to show all states in sequence and go to the next slide when all states have been seen. What Paul tells is everywhere, you need to click the Next button for each state change. I am truly astonished that you did not find that anywhere. I cannot even track how many times I have published this workflow.
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