Hello!
I am new to the community and to Captivate.
I’ve been using Storyline for around 1 year and there’s an effect I hope to emulate.
On Slide 1, I want to set up Button 1 so that when clicked for the first time it will jump to Slide 2.
Slide 2 will have a button that when clicked jumps back to Slide 1. If Button 1 is clicked for a second time it should jump to Slide 3.
In Storyline I would achieve this with a TRUE/FALSE variable that changes once Button 1 has been clicked. Button 1 would then be equipped with a trigger that jumps to Slide 3 IF the TRUE/FALSE variable has changed.
How can I achieve a similar effect in Captivate?
I hope that makes sense!
G
Welcome!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for not being offended. I am sometimes really at a loss by the way Americans seem to feel insulted by minor details. Just FYI English is my THIRD language. I am pretty fluent in 4 languages, can read Russian, have a conversation in Spanish and Italian. Do not expect me to avoid words which are perfectly accepted in the UK and not by some in the US.
Isn’t it most important to get help with Captivate? I offered you a possible solution, and will continue to do so notwithstanding all possible insults I get regularly. When you ever visit Flanders, you’ll probably commit some cultural mistakes, but we Flemish are very tolerant and know about cultural differences. If you don’t want help from me, please tell so.
English is my first and only language and I still get it wrong a lot of the time!
I suspect my tone may not have been clear in my previous reply; I am genuinely grateful for your help with this issue. I’m sorry for any insults you receive and I hope that you do not feel insulted by me.
I love to travel and Flanders looks like a beautiful city. I hope I can visit some day.
Also, I’m British and cannot be offended.
Thanks for your reply. Flanders is a region in Belgium, with a long history of (real, sorry) culture. It is very small but full of treasures. Museums in USA have a lot of Flemish treasures. Moreover in a couple of hours we are in France, UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Hence our language talents. I was not insulted by you. Sorry for my ranting.
I realize that perhaps you did not mean this to come across in a condescending way but let me just say that this response could easily be considered insulting.
In American culture – calling someone a newbie is not necessarily a good thing. While it may be true at face value – the term has come to smuggle in subtle negative overtones – in this case, it does not help that you follow up with questioning the user’s potential ability to follow steps and I have seen examples of much easier steps to follow.
This effect is very achievable in Captivate and using pretty much the same flow of thought. I would not even call it emulating a StoryLine function.
Sorry but when I read this sentence:
” I am new to the community and to Captivate.”
What is wrong with the word newbie? I would never use the word ‘dummy’ because that is insulting even for a non-American.
There is nothing wrong with being new to something – we all have to start there, right? You and I were both newbies once too.
It is a bit difficult to explain as it is a cultural thing. If I had to guess – I would say it started with the younger community and gaming where folks play together in multiplayer experiences where players team up as part of a guild or perhaps a simple PUG, or Pick Up Group, which is random players in a queue.
The “newbie” – or perhaps, more commonly and less affectionately, the “noob” – is the phrase reserved for the one who brought the rest of the group down, didn’t play their role well, or just simply sucked in the eyes of the others in the group. In some sense – even those who are new to a game and are somewhat low level and have a strong gaming acumen can avoid this “title”.
I mention it only because I have seen it several times and even I cringe a bit as I read it and it was not even meant for me. So I offered the word of caution because I figured you didn’t mean it that way.
I assure you that I am not offended and n00b is probably the best term to describe my competency with Captivate at the moment!
I get the point about not trying to emulate workflows across platforms – I think that as Storyline and Captivate share so many similarities on the surface, that would extend into the functionality, but as I’m learning, they are very different programs.
Storyline has a very low barrier to entry, but plateaus out in terms of what ou can develop pretty quickly. Captivate has a much sharper learning curve (learning right-angle?) but looks like it’s functionality keeps going and going.
Anyway, thanks both for helping in your own ways. 🙂
Just noticed that my Adobe profile actually says “Newbie” on it! Hahaha!
Never a good idea, especially if you are a newbie, to try to emulate a functionality from another tool. I would offer the same comment if you would try to emulate a functionality in StoryLine which is native to Captivate.
I could provide you with a workflow, using a variable and a shared action to be triggered by the button. Wonder if you would be able to follow the steps?
Variable v_attempts, start value = 0. That can be set while defining the variable. If you want to reuse the variable, you’ll have to reset it, depends on the workflow.
Shared action:
Decision 1: Always
Increment v_attempts by 1
Decision 2: DoIt
IF v_attempts = 1
Go to Previous Slide
ELSE
Jump to slide Y
Y is a parameter and can be different on each use of the shared action. That makes it a lot more flexible. You can add more decisions if you want to have another navigation to a third slide etc…
Using shared actions is a breeze: assign it to the button, and tell which slide to jump to on the second click…
See:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/who-is-afraid-of-dot-dot-dot-shared-actions-crash-course-lesson-1-video
Thanks, Lieve! I’ll give this a shot! 🙂
Hi Lieve,
This worked perfectly! Thanks so much!
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